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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 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

72.2%positive1,010 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“I like the way it looks. Looks like it could be fun. But the camera is f-ed up. No good way to look around. And camera snaps or auto tilts a lot. for me this makes it unpalyable.”

— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“This is my first comment on any game here on steam and i make it because the game deserves it. I almost gave up on this game until i changed one thing (the difficulty) which made it great in my personal opinion. I love these type of survival games. I enjoy that struggle starting…”

— a player, Steam review · 35 hrs played
Not recommended · 5 found this helpful

“I do need to give this game more of a chance, but man, a survival game with heroes to unlock is a bad mix in my opinion. But that is not my problem, the controls and UI are unintuitive and clunky. I started playing, and it said to rotate view with 'Q' and 'E', which I thought…”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 00:41 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

8playing at last check
824-hour peak
398all-time peak
0 100 200 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 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 2026-07-25.

29achievements
13.6%median completion
0.6%rarest: Galaxy's Greatest
63.9% of players 55.7% of players 49.7% of players 48.4% of players 33.5% of players 31.3% of players 21.9% of players 21.3% of players 18.8% of players 18.7% of players 16.1% of players 15.3% of players 15.3% of players 14.9% of players 13.6% of players 11.7% of players 10.2% of players 9.7% of players 8.3% of players 7.3% of players 6.0% of players 5.2% of players 5.1% of players 2.9% of players 1.2% of players 1.0% of players 0.8% of players 0.7% of players 0.6% of players 63.9% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
63.9%Detective — Hidden achievement
55.7%First Contact — Hidden achievement
49.7%A Hopeful Message — Hidden achievement
Rarest badges of honor
0.6%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 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$19.99lowest since tracking began2026-07-25
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 (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.

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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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

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
Estimated owners50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy)
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