Single-player games like Beyond Contact
Below are 12 single-player Steam games similar to Beyond Contact, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Nightingale
Single-player alternative to Beyond Contact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Outpost Zero
Single-player alternative to Beyond Contact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Green Hell
Single-player alternative to Beyond Contact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Abiotic Factor
Single-player alternative to Beyond Contact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Forever Skies
Single-player alternative to Beyond Contact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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The Riftbreaker
Single-player alternative to Beyond Contact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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The Survivalists
Single-player alternative to Beyond Contact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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?
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Voidtrain
Single-player alternative to Beyond Contact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Don't Starve Together
Single-player alternative to Beyond Contact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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ASTRONEER
Single-player alternative to Beyond Contact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Crashlands
Single-player alternative to Beyond Contact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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V Rising
Single-player alternative to Beyond Contact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.