I'd give this a meh if I can, but I cannot recommend it due to poor game design. There are too many superior titles in this genre to play this.

Lets say you have someone assigned to ranching and any other task. Animal troughs hold 300 food. If the animal eats 1 single food, you will stop the second task and go fill the one food slot. Just within Ranching, if you have a meat trough and a veggie one for different animals.... which ever one is closer, if it is eaten out of, you will continually fill that feeder one food at a time, until it is full and no one is eating, before you will go fill the second feeder. Your dude will spend all working hours just loading the same feeder.

With building if you need 1000 wood, and 1 wood is found, your builder will stop what they are doing, go grab the one wood, complete .1% of the build, and then go back to his other task.

If you send your guy hunting and it takes a few hours to get there... he will then realize he needs to eat... walk back to the village... eat and then walk back to hunting only to realize its time to sleep.

There needs to be more variables to setup in crafting menus. There is no way to prioritize older items versus newer items. In a stockpile you cannot individually select gear. So if you have 10 chest plates, and one is almost broken, you have no way to get it out of the pile. You can either disassemble the stack or wait for one of your people to eventually equip.

Things have a "craft until" option, which counts only stockpile items. You change gear seasonally, so if you set your pants "until 5", and you have 5 crafted, once the season changes and your people put them on it counts as if you have 0. There needs to be way more options on what material choices to make based on inventory, and all the things other titles of this genre do.

There needs to be the characters own priority list, and things should be able to be moved around it. This is so frustrating.

There is a character that will die 3 years in no matter what you do. I took the "cannot fail at surgery" person, and there is no prompts, chance at healing, or anything like that.

Stranded Alien Dawn is a breath of fresh air in a gaming landscape that has felt somewhat stagnant in recent years. It’s a true 5-star gem, offering a unique blend of survival and strategy that stands out among its peers. The game’s immersive world and innovative mechanics provide a deep and satisfying experience that is both challenging and rewarding. For those seeking a fresh and engaging adventure, Stranded Alien Dawn is a standout title that revitalizes the genre with its creativity and polish.

Not playable on ROG Ally.

It's a potentially worthy successor to Rimworld. However, it lacks the extensive content of said predecessor, even in its respective base form. It lacks rudimentary management controls for a game of this type. It has no overlays. Bot activities cannot be prioritized. I was disappointed as well in the lack of innovative mods in the workshop, and it seems as the major mods have been abandoned. I can't tell if this game is already dead or just in stagnant incubation. Time will tell. Overall though, a very enjoyable colony survival builder.

There is too much micro management. Keeping up on crafting and tailoring is very tedious given the number of survivors available to work with.

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This game has the same problem that Age of Wonders 4 has.

Great Game

I'd only suggest this game if it is on sale. No game breaking bugs but quite a bit of frustration. The activities priorities seems to be more of a suggestion that anything else. I've turned them all on where I can but people either wouldn't do some of the activities I needed done or they would still do them even tho I turned them to the lowest priority while other high priority stuff needed to be done. The drones are very useful (they will carry resources) but seem very inconsistent. they will interact with some production buildings but not all, and while their range is unlimited they seem to keep close to their stations. I've had numerous fields be too far away for them to retrieve harvested crops. While not game breaking it is just frustrating to deal with. The amount of resources needed for things is very inconsistent. Building's take ungodly amounts of resources.

Great Stuff

Neat mods to flesh it out even more on workshop

a 3D Rimworld