Frontier Foundry has revealed its brand-new planet survival sim Stranded: Alien Dawn which is coming out in early access in October. Frontier Foundry is a games label by Frontier Developments and their new title Stranded: Alien Dawn will put the fate of a small group of survivors in your hands as your decisions and strategy will ensure their survival or not. The game is being developed by Haemimont Games who are known for titles such as Surviving Mars.
Check out the reveal trailer for Stranded: Alien Dawn below before we jump into additional details:
Stranded: Alien Dawn will challenge you to overcome adversity and ensure that your diverse group of survivors can flourish in their strange new surroundings. The game combines modular base construction with deep resource management, research, crafting and more. You start off with nothing but the essentials and as you discover beautiful but deadly new environments, you collect additional resources and then expand your operations in the game. You create your very own unique, thriving base on an unknown alien planet however things are not this simple.
While doing all of this, you will need to brace for mysterious illnesses, extreme weather, and alien wildlife attacks while taking care of all the basic needs of your people. The base building choice rests in your hands as you will decide whether you want a sprawling haven or a fortified compound for a base as you salvage and harvest nearby resources to find the ideal materials for base building. You will also research new technologies and acquire additional knowledge which is vital for the survival of your people.
Apart from shelter and security, you must also ensure care for each member of the group for long-term survival. Each member offers individual strengths, weaknesses, and traits to help survivors unite, adapt and overcome unprecedented circumstances. You can use this to your advantage and make sure that the group works together as a unit to survive rather than dropping all responsibility on one head. You will also craft weapons, hunt, forage, and grow food eventually which will lead to medicine development and different ways to keep the group entertained as well with their physical and mental wellbeing.
Stranded: Alien Dawn sounds like a very ambitious project and seems to offer a lot in one package. The ultimate decisions will fall on your shoulders in the game such as making the choices to shape the story of the group and balancing between short and long-term outcomes with risk and reward. You will need a good balance between creativity, resourcefulness, and innovation to ensure the survival of everyone and live to see another day in the alien world.
Additional details about the game will be shared in the upcoming days however you can head over to Steam right now and add Stranded: Alien Dawn to your wishlist. Stranded: Alien Dawn will release in Early Access this October where you will be able to jump into the game on PC via Steam.
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