When did Stranded come out?

Stranded was released on 20 May 2014 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Stranded (2014) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Stranded

A minimal point and click adventure, designed to take the player on a short but memorable journey. You wake from cryostasis to find your ship lying crippled on an uncharted planet; shards of platinum-iridium…

70 20 May 2014

What Stranded is

Stranded is an adventure game developed by Peter Moorhead and released in 2014. It was published by Curve Digital. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

A minimal point and click adventure, designed to take the player on a short but memorable journey. You wake from cryostasis to find your ship lying crippled on an uncharted planet; shards of platinum-iridium alloy puncture the shimmering alien sand, the wind passes quietly over dead hydrocolliders. It isn't known how long the ruined vessel has sat here, or even what caused the crash, but one thing is clear: Time is rapidly running out. Stranded is a minimalist adventure game that foregoes dialogue and puzzles to focus on atmosphere, mystery, and exploration; it is both a love letter to classic point & click adventures, and an experiment with the fundamentals of the genre. Assume the role of…

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How it plays

Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Stranded holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Stranded launched on 20 May 2014, within three weeks of Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8, Wolfenstein: The New Order and Transistor. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Transistor.

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