The performance has been great with over 100 fps on max settings at 1440 and over 70 fps at 4K. Keys are rebindable and each action can be bound to two keys which is always nice and the general QoL features like camera sensitivity, inverted controls, and measurement units are more numerous than normal which is much appreciated. The options menu is excellent with everything you’d expect from a solid game: Borderless windowed mode, unlimited (or your choice of fps caps), toggleable vsync, ui scaling and about 20 graphical settings to tailor the performance and quality to your preference. So far so normal, and Stranded: Alien Dawn performs admirably at the basics of the genre – but there’s a lot more to it that’s worth digging into. To do this you will need to research things to build and craft, equip your survivors, skill them up and work around their flaws and utilize their strengths if you don’t want to have to start digging more graves than you’d like. You start with a random selection of characters with a variety of skills and traits, crash on a planet and then have to survive by collecting resources, building a base and killing anything that tries to kill you. If you’ve played colony sims before, you know the basics. Your survivors have some things to say about it… Where else to begin but the beginning? Your dynamic entry into the world is quite beautiful, at least for an observer. A track history of success from both developer and publisher like this, combined with the fast and patch-filled early access, bodes well for the future of the game which when asking for someone to part with their money, is comforting to see. Publisher Frontier Foundry, who hit the scene recently, has had a couple of good games under their belt already including the recently reviewed titles The Great War: Western Front, and Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters. Soon we will also see the return of a beloved series with Jagged Alliance 3, but also a solid history of well-received games including Omerta, Tropico 3, 4, 5, and a personal aRPG favourite for a couple of us, Victor Vran. It is created by Bulgarian developer Haemimont Games who are known for multiple great games since their first release in 2000 of Tzar: The Burden of the Crown including most recently Surviving Mars, of which my father and I sunk close to a thousand hours between us. Stranded does lose some depth however sadly, but it remains a very fun – and beautiful – game that quickly became a “one more day” time vampire. The more limited graphical style of Rimworld makes it easier to create more content and deeper systems, but there’s no denying how immersive a beautiful world can be, so if you can have the same depth of gameplay as in Rimworld but within a beautiful 3d world you’re looking at GotY territory. That might sound trite but it’s not – Rimworld is an amazing game with basically the single flaw being its graphics. Stranded: Alien Dawn is a 3D survival colony sim that really is Rimworld but in 3D. It’s impossible to not get value for money in Stranded: Alien Dawn if you enjoy colony sims. The pithy TL DR is – it’s 3D Rimworld, just get it.
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