Games like Beyond Contact
If Beyond Contact is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nightingale, Outpost Zero and Green Hell — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its combat is surprisingly satisfying, atmospheric and challenging. 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 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?
Players who liked Beyond Contact also play
Steam players who put hours into Beyond 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.
Nightingale
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Beyond Contact.
Top pick for Beyond Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Beyond Contact.
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Outpost Zero
WHY THIS
Shares base building, crafting and an atmospheric mood with Beyond Contact.
Second-strongest match for Beyond Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond Contact.
Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe. On a lawless alien world, robotic scouts are tasked with building an Outpost for human colonists. Command AI minions, colonize the planet, and survive the perils of Gaiya.
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Beyond Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond Contact.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Abiotic Factor
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an atmospheric mood with Beyond Contact.
Ranked #4 for Beyond Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Beyond Contact.
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
Forever Skies
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an atmospheric mood with Beyond Contact.
Ranked #5 for Beyond Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond Contact.
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
The Riftbreaker
WHY THIS
Shares base building, resource management and a challenging mood with Beyond Contact.
Ranked #6 for Beyond Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond Contact.
The Riftbreaker is a solo or Co-op base-building, survival game with Action-RPG elements for up to 4 players. Hack & slash countless hordes of enemies. Build up your base, craft powerful weapons and research new inventions to survive.
The Survivalists
WHY THIS
Shares multiplayer co op and base building with Beyond Contact.
Ranked #7 for Beyond Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond Contact.
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Beyond Contact.
Ranked #8 for Beyond Contact fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond Contact.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Beyond Contact
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Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Beyond Contact.
Reviewers of Beyond Contact cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond Contact.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
ASTRONEER
WHY THIS
Shares base building, resource management and an atmospheric mood with Beyond Contact.
Reviewers of Beyond Contact cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Beyond Contact.
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Crashlands
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a challenging mood with Beyond Contact.
Reviewers of Beyond Contact cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond Contact.
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
V Rising
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Beyond Contact.
Reviewers of Beyond Contact cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Beyond Contact.
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Beyond Contact at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Beyond Contact on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Beyond Contact.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Beyond Contact on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond Contact.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Beyond Contact on Steam right now. Shares Action with Beyond 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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Beyond Contact on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond Contact.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Beyond Contact on Steam right now. Shares Action with Beyond Contact.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Beyond 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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond Contact.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Beyond Contact.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond Contact.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Beyond Contact.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Beyond Contact.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond Contact.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Beyond Contact
- Does Beyond Contact run on Steam Deck?
- Beyond Contact is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Beyond Contact cost?
- Beyond Contact is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Beyond Contact have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Beyond Contact supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Beyond Contact?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Beyond Contact are Nightingale, Outpost Zero, Green Hell.
- Who developed Beyond Contact?
- Beyond Contact was developed by Playcorp Studios and published by Deep Silver.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Beyond Contact.
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