Games like Exoplanet: First Contact
If Exoplanet: First Contact is your kind of game, the closest matches are After, Nova and The Dark West — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its exploration rewards hidden paths, modifiable weapons encourage experimentation and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Exoplanet: First Contact: Build your path in this alien world. Do a dirty job for food or become the one who makes calls. Sometimes the right word makes a bigger impact than a big gun. Explore local culture and mysteries, and discover the harsh yet beautiful nature in this handcrafted singleplayer action RPG.
Players who liked Exoplanet: First Contact also play
Steam players who put hours into Exoplanet: First Contact also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
After
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Top pick for Exoplanet: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Exoplanet: First Contact.
In the thick of a dustbowl—where the poor beg for scraps from the rich—play as a driver trying to survive the wastelands taking any job he can to get by. Caught between a hail of bullets and a colorful cast of characters, the fate of the community rests on your decisions. Drive fast, choose wisely.
Nova
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Second-strongest match for Exoplanet: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Exoplanet: First Contact.
Combine the elements of Fire, Frost, Nature, Shadow, and Storm to form a powerful Duality. Harvest, craft, and engage in combat with creatures and enemy players to accumulate unprecedented power during the day and unleash your might at night.
The Dark West
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Third-strongest match for Exoplanet: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Exoplanet: First Contact.
The Dark West is a western occult ARPG set across a dying frontier that is consumed by corruption. Fight to survive with era-specific weapons and dark magic as you face deadly encounters and uncover tools of destruction.
IRON WORLD
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Ranked #4 for Exoplanet: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Exoplanet: First Contact.
IRON WORLD is a top-down open world RPG. Experience the unforgiving life of a space settler travelling across the post-apocalyptic world. Drive your own car, fight, explore.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Exoplanet: First Contact.
Ranked #5 for Exoplanet: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Exoplanet: First Contact.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Wyldheart
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Ranked #6 for Exoplanet: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Exoplanet: First Contact.
Embark on bite-sized campaigns in this co-op action RPG set in a rustic fantasy world. Start from nothing, and freely build your character as you investigate rumors, explore strange ruins, and survive the dangers threatening the fallen Kingdom of Caerwyn.
Monomyth
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Exoplanet: First Contact.
Ranked #7 for Exoplanet: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Exoplanet: First Contact.
MONOMYTH is an immersive, first-person dungeon-crawling RPG inspired by the genre's late classics. Embark on a journey through a vast and highly interactive game world as you unravel the mysteries hidden beneath the ancient fortress of Lysandria.
DDoD
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Ranked #8 for Exoplanet: First Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Exoplanet: First Contact.
DDoD is a top-down roguelite shooter with gunplay that feels right and charming mutants you'll love, or hate. Explore a massive open world above and underground. Cleanse the Purple Lands solo or in co-op. Come back alive. Or not.
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Risen
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Exoplanet: First Contact.
Reviewers of Exoplanet: First Contact cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Exoplanet: First Contact.
Delve into a gritty, raw and atmospheric fantasy world in which every action has a consequence. In the epic world of Risen, filled with mysterious earthquakes, fearsome monsters and unimaginable treasures, forge your path with the sword, learn the art of staff fighting or become a powerful mage.
Gothic® 3
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Shares an immersive mood with Exoplanet: First Contact.
Reviewers of Exoplanet: First Contact cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Exoplanet: First Contact.
A nameless hero becomes a legend! Myrtana, a world in upheaval: overrun by orcs from the dark lands in the north, King Rhobar is defending Vengard, the former stronghold of the humans, with his last troop of followers.
Fallout 4
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Exoplanet: First Contact.
Reviewers of Exoplanet: First Contact cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Exoplanet: First Contact.
From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.
ELEX
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Exoplanet: First Contact.
Reviewers of Exoplanet: First Contact cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Exoplanet: First Contact.
ELEX is a handcrafted action role-playing experience from the award-winning creators of the Gothic series, set in a brand new post-apocalyptic Science Fantasy universe that puts players into a huge seamless game world full of original characters, mutated creatures, deep moral choices and powerful action.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Exoplanet: First Contact at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Exoplanet: First Contact on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with Exoplanet: First Contact.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under Exoplanet: First Contact on Steam right now. Shares Action with Exoplanet: First Contact.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Exoplanet: First Contact on Steam right now. Shares Action with Exoplanet: First Contact.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Exoplanet: First Contact.
Priced ~50% under Exoplanet: First Contact on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Exoplanet: First Contact.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Exoplanet: First Contact on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Exoplanet: First Contact.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Exoplanet: First Contact.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Exoplanet: First Contact.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with Exoplanet: First Contact.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Exoplanet: First Contact.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
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Frequently asked about Exoplanet: First Contact
- How much does Exoplanet: First Contact cost?
- Exoplanet: First Contact is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Exoplanet: First Contact?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Exoplanet: First Contact are After, Nova, The Dark West.
- Who developed Exoplanet: First Contact?
- Exoplanet: First Contact was developed by Alersteam and published by GrabTheGames, UpgradePoint.
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