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Beyond Contact

Beyond Contact

A fiercely formidable sci-fi survival game, set on a hostile alien world that wants you dead! Alone, or with a crew, do you have what it takes to survive?

Released Apr 4, 2023 Developer Playcorp Studios Publisher Deep Silver Platforms Windows Open World Survival CraftAdventureSurvivalCo-opIndie
View on Steam ↗ $19.99 (US · as of 2026-10-25)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.

71.1%positive1,147 reviews
Recommended · 87 found this helpful

“I recommend this with the caveat that you may want to wait for a sale. The foundation of a good open world game is here. The story was okay but kinda short. Combat is neither fun nor very challenging - all you can do is swing your weapon and run around. As much as I played this…”

— a player, Steam review · 67 hrs played
Recommended · 122 found this helpful

“So far its a pretty decent survival game. The graphics are decent and the audio design is pretty high quality. The characters are voice acted and there are campaign missions to follow along for the story. The progression tiers are similar to other games where your crafting is…”

— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played
Not recommended · 259 found this helpful

“I wanted to like this game so very very much, and on the surface, it seems like it has everything I should love about a survival crafting adventure game. But it somehow misses on most levels. A very fine line that’s hard to define delineates the difference between a great game…”

— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.

398all-time peak
0 100 200 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 No data collected for this period 102 avg · Apr 2023

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-25.

29achievements
13.5%median completion
0.7%rarest: Galaxy's Greatest
63.9% of players 55.6% of players 50.4% of players 48.3% of players 33.4% of players 31.3% of players 21.7% of players 21.3% of players 18.7% of players 18.6% of players 15.9% of players 15.4% of players 15.3% of players 14.9% of players 13.5% of players 11.7% of players 10.2% of players 9.6% of players 8.3% of players 7.3% of players 6.0% of players 5.2% of players 5.2% of players 3.0% of players 1.2% of players 1.0% of players 0.8% of players 0.7% of players 0.7% of players 63.9% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
63.9%Detective — Hidden achievement
55.6%First Contact — Hidden achievement
50.4%A Hopeful Message — Hidden achievement
Rarest badges of honor
0.7%Galaxy's Greatest — Save Ketern in a Mutliplayer Story Mode game on Hard difficulty.
0.7%Growin' Old Together — Survive 100 days in the same Multiplayer game.
0.8%Above and Beyond — Save Ketern in a Solo Story Mode game on Hard difficulty.

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-25. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$19.99current · sampled 2026-10-25 20:53 UTC
$1.99lowest since tracking began2026-10-01
US19.99 USD
EU19.99 EUR
UK17.79 GBP
Australia29.95 AUD
Canada27.49 CAD
Japan2,389 JPY
Brazil99.00 BRL
China73.98 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

China≈$11 Japan Brazil Canada US Australia EU UK≈$24

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-10-23). Relative comparison only.

$0 $25 $50 07-25 08-11 08-30 09-17 10-05 10-25

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Sep 23, 2023
55% Off Beyond Contact

Attention Space Corps Operatives! Now is a great time to add Beyond Contact to your Steam Library! Today, through October 7th, Beyond Contact will be 55% off in the Steam store. https://store.steampow

Sep 05, 2023
🚀 Update Version 1.2.0 🚀

Greetings, Space Corps Operatives! 1.2.0 Changelog Highlighted Changes: A new character is available for play, Blott, the enigmatic xeno-botanist. Use Blotts mastery of nature and unique wills over na

Jul 04, 2023
🚀 Update Version 1.1.0 🚀

Greetings, Space Corps Operatives! 1.1.0 Changelog Highlighted Changes: Farming and combat have been overhauled Players can now reset all skill points at the cost of Data Improved controller support w

Jun 28, 2023
🔴 Developer Livestreams 🔴

Greetings, Space Corps Operatives! We will now be sharing the highlights from our developer Twitch streams, here on Steam. To catch the content live, tune in Wednesdays at 14:00 CEST for our Dev broad

Jun 19, 2023
🚀 VERSION 1.0.3 AVAILABLE NOW! 🚀

UPDATE NOW AVAILABLE! Greetings, Space Corps Operatives! Beyond Contact Version 1.0.3 is now available! This includes the highly requested mass deconstruction of your shelters, better weapon tooltips,

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From our knowledge graph — ranked by shared traits, not a black box. Each card says why it's here.

Breathedge Breathedge 71.4% · 6,091 reviews shares Open World Survival Craft, Base Building, Crafting, Space Space Engineers Space Engineers 89.0% · 88,729 reviews shares Open World Survival Craft, Crafting, Space, Co Op Saleblazers Saleblazers 89.8% · 1,330 reviews shares Co Op Campaign, Open World Survival Craft, Base Building, Crafting Eden Crafters Eden Crafters 84.5% · 1,169 reviews shares Open World Survival Craft, Base Building, Crafting, Space Cubic Odyssey Cubic Odyssey 74.9% · 1,404 reviews shares Open World Survival Craft, Base Building, Crafting, Space ASTRONEER ASTRONEER 91.5% · 62,641 reviews shares Open World Survival Craft, Base Building, Crafting, Space Astrometica Astrometica 82.5% · 1,608 reviews shares Open World Survival Craft, Base Building, Crafting, Space Satisfactory Satisfactory 97.5% · 156,688 reviews shares Open World Survival Craft, Base Building, Crafting, Co Op

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.

GenresAction, Adventure, Indie
Player tagsOpen World Survival Craft · Adventure · Survival · Co-op · Indie · Base-Building · Crafting · Combat · Multiplayer · Action · Co-op Campaign · Female Protagonist (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese *
Achievements29
Official sitehttps://survivebeyondcontact.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows (7SP1/8/8.1/10) Processor: Intel Core i5 (Sandy/Ivy Bridge) or AMD equivalent Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD equivalent DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 10 GB available space Sound Card: Onboard Sound