Single-player games like Beyond Contact
Below are 11 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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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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Planetaries
Single-player alternative to Beyond Contact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond Contact.
Experience a vast Sci-fi open-world survival TD game set on a distant planet deep in the universe. Craft, build, mine, trade, explore, and survive in this alien world. Collect Data and defend against waves of enemies seeking to banish you. Enjoy the adventure in Singleplayer or Multiplayer.
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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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Osiris: New Dawn
Single-player alternative to Beyond Contact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond Contact.
Osiris: New Dawn is an unforgiving near future space survival game with a cinematic feel and elements of horror. Play as a Mission Specialist in single or multiplayer to build your planetary base, pilotable vehicles, and controllable drones as you explore a dangerous solar system far from Earth.
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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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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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CryoFall
Single-player alternative to Beyond Contact — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Beyond Contact.
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
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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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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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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.