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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?
Beyond Contact is a open world survival craft, adventure and survival game
developed by Playcorp Studios
and published by Deep Silver.
Released on April 04th 2023 is available only on Windows
in 10 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 1,010 reviews of which 729 were positive and 281 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.9 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Eneba.
The Steam community has classified Beyond Contact into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows (7SP1/8/8.1/10)
- Processor: Intel Core i5 (Sandy/Ivy Bridge) or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD equivalent
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- Sound Card: Onboard Sound
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I Just got this game for like 4 bucks and it is every addicting. The combat system is really fun too. Highly recommended.
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I enjoyed my first 70 hrs or so, since the game has a nice implementation of all the gameplay elements I expected (resource gathering, progression via research, story-driven-quests, base building, territory-capture-point, hack-and-slash style combat etc). I liked the early-to-mid game challenge of survival with the progressively more demanding harassment from the negative weather "events" of the game, and in general I consider Beyond Contact a good game... But, at the end-game it felt a bit repetitive and a bit tedious on the resource gothering, also the base-defence and base-upgrade-expantion felt not so intrifuing to make me gatting the"I dont wont to stop" feeling I have with some other "survival-base-building" games. I found myself getting bored to collect the resources for major base upgrades, and actually rushed the story-quests at the end, to complete the campain... The game does offer the end-game territory-capture mechanic, so the devs acutally are trying to offer something new at the end-lavel gaming, but for some reason I cannot figure out, I felt a bit "tired" of the game after 80 hrs and finishing the main compain, even though the game looks to try to provide me with more alternatives... Maybe what I would personally needed was an automatic way to collect resources at that end-game stage, or something... Regardless, the 80 hrs enjoyment is far more than the majority of games I have played. And also the overall polish of the game is satisfying. The new opportunities the game offers me (i.e. the option to start a new-run with different character) declare the developers effort to keep the gamer interest high, regardless that I am feeling tired to take advantage of that fact. Summarizing, I definitely propose the game, and would rate it 7/10. EDIT: The new-dame feature after having finished the campain, offers advanced options on tailoring game aspects like the "hunger rate", activating the main story vs freeplay ets... so I guess I could setup an interest second gamethrou if I had not other games waiting for me...
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I've played several dozen hours and now, with the end in sight, I can say that I have definitely gotten my money's worth. This isn't a game I will come back to, but I have enjoyed playing it. The core game is solid. I encountered no bugs. The graphics are enjoyable. And the storyline is sufficient. That said, there are a LOT of things I wish this game did differently. This is a top-down isometric game with an absurdly small zoom-out range. Given how small and cluttered the mini-map is, the first time I died was because I couldn't find my base which was a baseball throw away from my character but remained off-screen. The lack of ranged weapons (you have a few grenades and a whip, but the only real ranged weapon is a rare late-game drop) is excusable given the lack of range available. There were other design choices that I disliked. The high-pitched ding for scrolling over menu items got grating. Base deconstruction is either painfully laborious or uncontrolled. There are no prompts to tell you when you need to drag-and-drop rather than clicking on things, such as using the portable cooker or fixing the World Forge. There's no real furniture or base decoration. And no way to clear obstacles like trees or rocks for base building. Also, be forewarned that you can unlock additional characters, but the story mode treats you as the default character regardless, giving her image and dialogue. I didn't mind this, having enjoyed playing the ingenue. But this detracted from a desire to play again with another character. But even though I was always able to imagine a better version of this game, the game was always good enough and enjoyable enough to keep me entertained. The custom difficulty settings allowed me to make the survival aspects cozy while keeping combat challenging. I found the alien dialogue fun. And I definitely loved that this was an alien world with alien resources. I play a LOT of open world survival crafting games, and it was nice to be hunting for exotic materials rather than iron and copper. I liked that potential power sources included some non-conventional options like a generator run by captured critter. So if you like OWSC games, I can recommend wishlisting Beyond Contact and grabbing it the next time it's on a good sale.
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The game is beautiful, fun and I spent countless hours exploring an figuring out the world. While the game tells you the basics, there is a lot you have to figure out for yourself, the characters provide unique enough abilities and each one can be fun to play. There is only one problem with the game, which is that it does not receive any new content. I would love to explore more planets in this universe, or face different kinds of challenges on the one we already have but, unfortunately, once you finish the storyline, there just isn´t much else to do. The "survival" mode can be really fun if you like base defending mechanics but you this will kepp you entertained only for so long
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I only played 10 hours and mostly enjoyed it. It's a thumbs up considering I got the game for £3 on sale. Beautiful graphics, absolutely top-notch voice-acting and some nice gameplay. However, the game makes several survival-game errors: 1. you run out of food and oxygen at a ridiculous rate 2. tools/weapons wear out and food decays 3. inventory space is a joke (6 slots per chest) Put these two together and your gaming experience will be reduced to micro-management - fruit picking, and oxygen-bubble searching. Oh, and at night time, you freeze unless you craft a torch, so you need to constantly mine one specific plant (tamber) to make these. All the survival elements, which should be reasonably fun to overcome, become a tedious chore to be repeated endlessly. I stopped playing when I finally unlocked a refrigerator, only to discover that it needed two things I hadn't even discovered in the game yet, meaning that I was going to be fighting starvation for hours to come. Nah. Lots of fun elements - the exploration, the story, the fighting. But the survival grind sucks the life out of the game. Maybe the "easy" level makes this more enjoyable, but I was ten hours into "normal" before I realised how grindy it is. Still worth checking out on sale though. I don't regret picking this up, but it could have been so much better.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Beyond Contact is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
Beyond Contact is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
Beyond Contact received 729 positive votes out of a total of 1,010 achieving a rating of 6.94.
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Beyond Contact was developed by Playcorp Studios and published by Deep Silver.
Beyond Contact is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Beyond Contact is not playable on MacOS.
Beyond Contact is not playable on Linux.
Beyond Contact offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Beyond Contact includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
Beyond Contact does not currently offer any DLC.
Beyond Contact does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Beyond Contact does not support Steam Remote Play.
Beyond Contact is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Playcorp Studios
Publisher
Deep Silver
Release
04 Apr 2023
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