Survival Show Guide

How to Watch Alone in Order: Every Season and Spinoff

July 26, 2026

There are more Alone than a lot of people realize, and the numbering does not tell the whole story once you fold in the spinoffs and the Australian series. The good news is that every season stands on its own, with a fresh cast and a new location and no cliffhangers, so you can technically start anywhere. Watching in release order is still the best way to see the show get sharper: the locations turn harsher, the casting gets deeper, and the survival gets more sophisticated season over season.

The main US run, in order

The flagship History Channel series has run one season a year since 2015. Each is self-contained. A few landmarks worth knowing before you start: Season 4 was a team season, played in family pairs; Season 7 changed the format to a fixed 100-day threshold for a $1,000,000 prize instead of the usual $500,000 last-one-standing; and Season 13 is airing right now, so it has no winner yet. If you want to avoid spoilers, watch it week to week and skip the search results.

Where the spinoffs fit

Two spinoffs aired in 2022, in the gap between main seasons. Alone: Frozen is a shorter redemption-style event where returning contestants push for a 50-day cap on the Labrador coast; Woniya Thibeault took it. Alone: The Skills Challenge is a different animal, a studio-framed competition filmed at contestants' own home sites, and it crowns no single champion and awards no cash prize, so treat it as a bonus rather than part of the canon. History also aired a separate short spinoff, Alone: The Beast, in 2020, which this site does not track in its season data; it sits outside the main run.

Alone Australia

Alone Australia is a separate SBS production with its own numbering, and it is the same format transplanted to the southern hemisphere. It is worth watching, and you can slot it in after the US run or treat it as its own series. The prize is $250,000 AUD. Season 4 is announced and scheduled to premiere in mid-July 2026, filmed inside the Arctic Circle in Sápmi, Finland, which will be the coldest setting the Australian show has attempted.

Order Season Year Location Status
1 US S1 2015 Vancouver Island, Canada Complete
2 US S2 2016 Vancouver Island, Canada Complete
3 US S3: Patagonia 2016 Patagonia, Argentina Complete
4 US S4: Lost & Found 2017 Vancouver Island, Canada Complete
5 US S5: Redemption 2018 Khonin Nuga, Mongolia Complete
6 US S6: The Arctic 2019 Great Slave Lake, Canada Complete
7 US S7: Million Dollar Challenge 2020 Great Slave Lake, Canada Complete
8 US S8: Grizzly Mountain 2021 Chilko Lake, Canada Complete
9 US S9: Labrador 2022 Northern Labrador, Canada Complete
Bonus Frozen 2022 Labrador coast, Canada Complete
Bonus The Skills Challenge 2022 Various US sites Complete
10 US S10: Saskatchewan 2023 Reindeer Lake, Canada Complete
11 US S11: Arctic Circle 2024 Mackenzie Delta, Canada Complete
12 US S12: Africa 2025 Great Karoo, South Africa Complete
13 US S13: World Championship 2026 Richardson Mountains, Canada Airing
AUS Australia S1 to S4 2023 to 2026 Tasmania, New Zealand, Finland S4 upcoming

Where to actually stream it

Availability shifts by region and platform, so the where-to-watch guide is the page to check for what is streaming where before you commit to a season. The seasons hub has the full breakdown of every entry, Season 13 covers the one airing now, and Alone: Frozen has its own page. If you are choosing where to begin, the best seasons for first-time viewers is a better starting map than release order alone, how many seasons of Alone there are keeps a running count, and what we know about Season 14 covers what comes next.

More in the Field Journal or start with the season guides.