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Outcast – Second Contact is the complete remake of the cult title which sparked the open world, action-adventure genre. Take off on an exploration of Adelpha, an alien world as beautiful as it is dangerous, where your heroic journey places the fate of two worlds in your hands.

Outcast - Second Contact is a adventure, action and open world game developed by Appeal Studios and published by Nacon.
Released on November 14th 2017 is available only on Windows in 7 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch and Portuguese - Portugal.

It has received 934 reviews of which 726 were positive and 208 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.65€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Outcast - Second Contact into these genres:

Adventure Action Open World Sci-fi Remake Third Person Singleplayer Story Rich Classic Third-Person Shooter Cult Classic Exploration RPG Great Soundtrack Funny

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 64bits or higher
Processor: 4th Gen Intel® Core™ i5 Processors / AMD FX® 8300
Memory: 6 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX670 / AMD Radeon® 7950
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 15 GB available space
Sound Card: Yes

User reviews & Ratings

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July 2025

First off: despite being an older game, it still works flawlessly on modern systems. I've only had a couple random crash but there are lots of auto save so it's fine. I didn't see anyone complain either. However being an older console port, some controls can't be changed. But they're simple so it's no big deal or you can use an xbox controller. As for the game, it's pretty good. It's an old school open world fetch quest adventure so there's a lot of back and forth, which is not for everyone but they're wrapped in diverse enough story plots to not feel boring. There are a whole lot of dialogues and characters fully voiced. There's a very decent amount of sub quests on top of the main one. The world design, music and story is very well crafted and fun to explore. The whole experience is pretty interesting if you like this kind of game and there's a lot of very good ideas here and there. I knew about the game but never played before and I'm glad I did end up trying. It seems to be quite a faithful remaster of the original one (Outcast 1.1) and after watching some gameplay videos, it looks impressive how they remade it and not changed everything like many modern game studios would. So if you've played the very first one, you should try this as this game is probably gonna look like your memories of the 1.1 and if you've never played it, it still looks very nice. The textures, music and mechanics still hold up. If you want to complete the adventure on the first try (15-20h), you probably won't. Being an older game, there's not much hand holding going on. If you want to understand what something does, you have to figure it out by yourself (like the tech gadgets you should use but don't know about if you don't dig around). Even the manual save sytem is hinted in the dialogues but not clearly shown unless you dig. There's no quest marker, no arrow, except for the main characters as there are lots of npc roaming around. It's refreshing if you like snooping around. To be noted, the way to find characters is by asking any npc and they will give you an overall direction which is a very cool way to handle this, especially since both npc and some main characters just go about their life and move a lot. For the achievements, if you want to 100% the game you'll need to go through it at least twice because there are lots of quests that aren't obvious and some seem secondary but are part of the main one. Missing these don't prevent you from finishing the game but you won't get 100% for the main story, if you finish without these hidden primary quests. A workaround would be to back up your saves, as you only get 3 manual slots and the auto save is very aggressive and will trigger at every interaction. Otherwise, you won't be able to go back a lot at all. However there are guides online, notably planet-adelpha dot de and true achievements. I'll definately play the second game once it's more affordable, hoping the story is expanded because it's quite an interesting set up. Overall it's really a must for anyone who likes straight forward sci-fi adventure. The world is worth exploring and if you get it on sale, it's really more than worth its price.

Feb. 2025

No "re-imagining", "tailoring it to the current audience" or "adding a few new artistic ideas" bs. Just an already perfect game updated with better graphics. Now if someone could redo Gothic II and VtM Bloodlines the same way, my life will be complete.

Feb. 2025

I realy enjoyed the original game when it came out. I was one of my favourite games back then. But it was hard on the CPU with its voxel graphics and had to play it in lower resoultion back then. With the improved and butter smooth graphics in Outcast - Second Contact I even enjoyed it more now. It is still a great game to play with a excellent sci-fi story reminding me of Star Gate a bit and excellent music. The game was realy ahead of its time in 1999. Just try it out if you are an sci-fi and advanture fan you will love it for sure.

Nov. 2024

This is a remake of a game from the 90s that nobody remembers. A lot of the side missions are fetch quests, the controls are clunky especially when you try to platform, and the camera gets really really up close and personal whenever you go inside buildings and the gunplay is about on par with the very first Hitman game. But aside from that I still found the game incredibly charming. My advise to those who are interested in this game is to only do the side missions that you find interesting and keep a walkthrough on how to do the main mission in case you get stuck.

Sept. 2024

Nostalgia overload. One of the first games I have ever seen played on a PC. Thanks dad. Glad this is not lost to time.

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Outcast - Second Contact is currently priced at 14.99€ on Steam.

Outcast - Second Contact is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.99€ on Steam.

Outcast - Second Contact received 726 positive votes out of a total of 934 achieving a rating of 7.42.

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Outcast - Second Contact was developed by Appeal Studios and published by Nacon.

Outcast - Second Contact is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Outcast - Second Contact is not playable on MacOS.

Outcast - Second Contact is not playable on Linux.

Outcast - Second Contact is a single-player game.

There are 2 DLCs available for Outcast - Second Contact. Explore additional content available for Outcast - Second Contact on Steam.

Outcast - Second Contact does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Outcast - Second Contact does not support Steam Remote Play.

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