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Alien Dawn
Built from the ground up for PCVR, this action survival game combines detailed visuals, realistic physics, and a handcrafted, interactive, and destructible open world. Explore, fight, scavenge, and survive solo or in co-op with Flatscreen cross-play and the VR features players expect.
View on Steam ↗ $11.19 (US · as of 2026-09-28)What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“Started playing this game with a steam family copy, and I genuinely think this is a hidden gem of a game. Pros: This game runs nearly flawlessly, both on flatscreen and in VR, though I will go into more detail on some of this when I talk about the Cons. The most impressive part…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“This is the kind of indie stuff I love fund/play, just engaging enough for the almonds.”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Big Multiplayer Stability Update!
The last several weeks I've worked almost exclusively on multiplayer stability. We've run several test games and this new version is a 10x improvement over the previous version. We will continue to ru
Major Vehicle & Multiplayer Update + New Double Barrel Shotgun
📝 Developer Notes Vehicles receive a major overhaul with new two-handed steering, gear shifting, revised throttle inputs, improved handling, enhanced haptics, and better engine audio for an overall mo
Alien Dawn - Alpha V2 Playtest Update (2.0.231)
Below are all the changes since the previous Playtest update on August 1st. This patch primarily focuses on multiplayer fixes as we continue to make online play stable and a solid gameplay experience.
Brief Update from the Developer ⭐
🚨 This is NOT the official update for Alien Dawn Alpha 2.0🚨 We're switching the default public branch from the old 2024 build to the latest Playtest build for several reasons: 1. People buy the game
Alien Dawn Alpha 2 - Playtesting Open Now
Hey, so I know it's been over a year since I last posted here and that sucks. The gist of what has been going on is that in order for this game to work in any capacity I needed to advance my understa
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Co-op · VR · Survival · FPS · Survival Horror · Open World · Third-Person Shooter · Roguelite · Procedural Generation · Multiplayer · Vehicular Combat (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Full controller support · Tracked Controller Support · VR Supported · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 11 |
| Official site | http://www.xtian.tv/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: i7-7700k Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1080ti DirectX: Version 12 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 16 GB available space VR Support: OpenXR, Touch, Index Additional Notes: The above specifications are for the VR version. The desktop version is less demanding and is designed to run well on a wide range of DirectX 12-compatible hardware, including older CPUs and GPUs.