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2022PCPlayStationXboxSteam Deck playable71 % positive19.99 €

You are stranded on the procedurally generated alien planet Ketern, surviving through exploration, research, crafting and base building. A pulp sci-fi comic look gives the hostile world its own flavor.

  • Building and crafting
  • Open world
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Lots to discover
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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Beyond Contact special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Subnautica

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2018PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified97 % positive29.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Beyond Contact: building and crafting, an open world as well as lots to discover.

Stranded on an ocean planet, you dive ever deeper into a gorgeous yet terrifying alien sea. You build bases and submarines while piecing together the planet's mystery, and the dark depths themselves become the real source of dread.

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No Man's Sky

Lots to discover

A near-infinite procedurally generated universe where you hop freely between vivid alien planets, gather resources, build bases and upgrade your ships. Years of free updates have turned it into a relaxed sci-fi sandbox with optional co-op.

Dig or Die

Building and crafting

You are stranded on a hostile alien world after your ship crashes and must turn local resources and your own fabrication tools into a working base. It blends survival, automation and exploration into a sandbox where you build your own way off the planet.

Planet Crafter

Building and crafting

You terraform a hostile planet by gathering resources, building bases and machines, and watching a barren wasteland slowly gain atmosphere, water and life. The blend of calm survival and visible, large-scale progress is what makes it special.

Starbound

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A colorful 2D sandbox adventure where you hop between procedurally generated planets to mine, build, farm, found colonies and fight, solo or with friends. There is a main quest, but the real draw is the near-endless freedom of roaming the galaxy.

Vangers

Lots to discover

Vangers is a bizarre racing adventure set in a strange, mutated world where you play a courier hauling goods, trading and fighting. Its enigmatic atmosphere, great freedom and cryptic storyline make it a unique cult classic.

Aethus

Building and crafting

A sci-fi survival-crafter about digging deep underground, refining resources and expanding a modular surface outpost with hydroponics and automation. A story gives you a reason to keep descending.

Subnautica 2

Lots to discover

An underwater survival adventure on a new alien ocean world where you gather resources, build bases and push into ever deeper, more dangerous waters. This time you can also dive together in four-player co-op.

Reassembly

Building and crafting

You design modular spaceships from geometric parts, gather resources and fight real-time battles across a procedural galaxy. Creative ship building in a sandbox setting is the heart of the experience.

CryoFall

Building and crafting

A top-down 2D sci-fi survival sandbox on an alien planet, where players build bases, research technology, craft and compete for resources on persistent servers hosting up to 300 people.

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