Spectacular storytelling survival sim Stranded: Alien Dawn sets release date

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Pre-orders are live for Haemimont Games' interstellar colony-builder which impressed us during our playtest

Planet survival and settlement sim Stranded: Alien Dawn now has a full release date of April 25, 2023.

Having taken its first strides into Steam's Early Access initiative back on October 12, 2022, Haemimont Games and Frontier Foundry's interstellar colony builder has spent the last several months fine-tuning its systems and mechanics while gearing up for launch. As revealed at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase Powered by the Turtle Beach Stealth Pro, Stranded: Alien Dawn is also now available for pre-order for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X and S, and Xbox One.

After going hands-on with an early build last year, I described Stranded: Alien Dawn as a survival sim rooted in spectacular storytelling – wherein my entire crew was ravaged by giant bugs and bloodthirsty dinosaurs while simultaneously wrestling with starvation, malnutrition and deteriorating mental health. 

Needless to say, it didn't end well for me and my poor space-flung civilians, but I was nevertheless impressed by the game's narrative scope and impressive suite of survival sim features that give you the tools to either thrive on foreign soil, or, you know, die a horrible and cruel death. Good luck either way!

If you fancy putting your survival skills to the test in a galaxy far, far away, you can do so when Stranded: Alien Dawn launches in full on April 25, 2023. More information lives on the game's Steam page, where its Early Access iteration on PC currently boasts 'Very Positive' reviews; and its official website, where you can pre-order on console.   

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Joe Donnelly
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Joe Donnelly is a sports editor from Glasgow and former features editor at GamesRadar+. A mental health advocate, Joe has written about video games and mental health for The Guardian, New Statesman, VICE, PC Gamer and many more, and believes the interactive nature of video games makes them uniquely placed to educate and inform. His book Checkpoint considers the complex intersections of video games and mental health, and was shortlisted for Scotland's National Book of the Year for non-fiction in 2021. As familiar with the streets of Los Santos as he is the west of Scotland, Joe can often be found living his best and worst lives in GTA Online and its PC role-playing scene.