Stranded: Alien Dawn

Started limping, goes great with time (thanks to modders tho)

NOT RECOMMENDED if you are looking for a survivial crafter with depth and detail. Or for a survivial sim. Or for anything that the game description states prominently on the store page. Instead, what you get is a rather uninspired tower defense game, with crafting, survivial, sim, and everything else taking a very far back seat. Animal attacks happen near-regularly on a timer. Each subsequent attack is by a larger group than the previous one. The more provisions you have stored, the even larger the group will be. Also, the more defenses you have constructed, the larger the attack group seems to be. This can go from initially a dozen animals to several hundreds quite quickly. Their pathfinding is VERY primitive, so you have to funnel them through a narrow and long constructed defensive path. And that's all the finesse there is to it - no further tactical or strategic elements, at all. I severely dislike tower defense of this type, so I reduced this gameplay element via a mod and by dropping to the lowest difficulty level. And the remaining game was still uninspired, disappointing and annoying. There are several undocumented and unclear mechanisms, and there are missable resources due to issue with the random map generation. Either alone will cause failure in the first or second game year. You will have to restart from scratch several times over - or read detailed guides in advance that spoil everything. Some of these gameplay elements you can avoid if you know about them (e.g.: after a restart from scratch). Others will force you to micro-manage around them very tediously, due to there being no way to make the survivors behave properly to avoid/neutralize them. Again, no finesse, at all. Now, with both all those lessons learned, as well as with the tower defense element reduced via mods - the game is STILL uninspired! You are locked into a mostly fixed path, entirely governed by how slow clothes tailoring, crafting and buildig construction is timed versus clothes and equipment wear&tear. Also, by how slow technology resesarch is. There are no engaging discovery elements in this game - no incentive to explore the map (more the opposite), no technology or other surprises/discoveries/alternate paths. In the end, this is a tedious slog - not an enjoyable game. Which is a shame, as there is an incredible amount of detail in the game (excellent sim) - but it all gets buried and killed by the overwhemling mechanisms mentioned above - even if you reduce some of them via mods. NOT RECOMMENDED, not even at a discount.

I bought this game because it looked cool but it sat in my library for a bit. If I had of known the developer I would have played it straight away. As soon as i saw the font from Surviving Mars I knew it was going to be great and it is. Many hours will be enjoyed with this game!

GOOD GAME

3D版环世界，而且10年的老机器玩起来不卡

Reminds me of Majesty. Great Game!

Alas, the game is unstable on Linux.