Games like Beyond Contact

If the replayable and tense rhythm of Beyond Contact stuck with you, this helps. Start with these games when you are ready. You can bring friends along for most of these.

The Riftbreaker
You are captain Ashley S. Nowak, a scientist-commando in a Mecha-Suit, sent through a one-way portal to planet Galatea 37. Build mines, refineries, power plants and labs to power a rift back to Earth, while thousands of alien creatures try to wipe you out. Solo or in online co-op for up to 4.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Replayable, Tense
90% of 22,352 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,035$29.99
Stranded: Alien Dawn
A small group of survivors, one unforgiving alien planet, and you in charge. Build them a base, keep them fed and sane, and hold the walls when the local wildlife comes knocking. Every run plays out differently, and every decision costs something. A colony sim where the planet is actively trying to ruin your day.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable, Tense, Dark
83% of 9,925 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 563$34.99
Scrapnaut
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Replayable, Dark
69% of 735 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$1.39
The Planet Crafter
You land on a dead red planet with one job: make it livable. You gather ore, build machines that add heat, pressure and oxygen, and watch puddles become lakes and moss become forest. Slow, calm survival crafting with a payoff you can see from orbit.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Replayable
96% of 70,040 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4,876$23.99
Edge of Space
Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform. However, after the long space journey you awaken from cryosleep to find that your ship has gone way off course and is disabled near a strange new world.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Replayable
31% of 1,943 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Unknown Planet
Your spacecraft has crash landed on an alien planet. Explore this unknown world, mine the resources, build your base, grow farms, craft equipment, fight off the alien lifeforms and survive.
Also in Survival crafting · Replayable
97% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Planetaries
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.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Replayable
58% of 215 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Honeycomb: The World Beyond
A sci-fi survival adventure on the vibrant alien planet Sota7. Play Hennessy, a bioengineer scanning strange flora, crossbreeding creatures and plants, and building a base in the wild. Gentle, low-pressure survival with a cute, colorful world and a mystery worth unraveling.
Also in Survival crafting
68% of 236 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 23$29.99
Surviving Ceres
Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.
Also in Survival crafting
87% of 116 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
CryoFall
CryoFall is a 2D sci-fi survival colony sim on a forgotten planet. You start with primitive tools and work your way up through industrial, modern and space-age technology: farms, power grids, factories, vehicles, even war machines. Play it relaxed on PvE servers or brutal on PvP ones, alone or with friends. Just know it asks for patience.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Replayable, Tense, Dark
78% of 4,909 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 31$19.99
Farworld Pioneers
Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op. Build and manage colonies on alien planets, and recruit AI survivors with unique personalities and skills. Craft, build, mine, farm, or get your electric death rifle and say hello to your neighbors.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Replayable
37% of 623 Steam reviews are positive$3.74
StarRupture
StarRupture is a first-person open-world survival and base-building game on a planet torn by recurring cataclysms. You mine and process resources, build an industrial system to produce goods and expand your base, and hold off hordes of alien creatures alone or with up to four friends.
Also in Survival crafting and Co-op · Tense
80% of 12,615 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 977$19.99

Cheaper than Beyond Contact

Scrapnaut

Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements.

$1.39

Signs of Life

Mine ore, build a base and piece together a crashed world in a 2D survival sandbox, alone or with a friend.

$9.74

Unknown Planet

Your spacecraft has crash landed on an alien planet. Explore this unknown world, mine the resources, build your base, grow farms, craft equipment…

$3.99

Edge of Space

Suit up as an operative of the Ark Corporation, sent to the farthest reaches of the universe in search of habitable planets to terraform.

$14.99

Surviving Ceres

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building.

$9.99

MewnBase

Land on an uncharted planet as a space cat, then scavenge, craft and build a base to survive on it.

$9.99

Under A New Sun

While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth.

$17.99

Kentum

Crafting, cloning, and comedy await in this survival-infused metroidvania adventure.

$17.99

Farworld Pioneers

Explore an open world, sci-fi sandbox – in PVP, PVE, and co-op.

$3.74

Outpost Zero

Outpost Zero blends the genres of Multiplayer Base Building Survival and Simulation games in a Sci-Fi universe.

$3.99

Subterrain

Scavenge, craft and fight through a dying underground colony while an infection spreads and every resource counts.

$16.99

Astrometica

Mine asteroids, scan lost wreckage and build your own bases in a calm, open galaxy that lets you explore at your own pace.

$11.99

Hidden gems like Beyond Contact

AETHUS

Mine for answers, grow a home on the surface, and let a corporate mystery pull you further down.

$19.99

Eden Crafters

Eden Crafters hands you a hostile planet and one job: make it livable.

$19.99

MewnBase

Land on an uncharted planet as a space cat, then scavenge, craft and build a base to survive on it.

$9.99

Surviving Ceres

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building.

$9.99

Signs of Life

Mine ore, build a base and piece together a crashed world in a 2D survival sandbox, alone or with a friend.

$9.74

Astrometica

Mine asteroids, scan lost wreckage and build your own bases in a calm, open galaxy that lets you explore at your own pace.

$11.99

Kentum

Crafting, cloning, and comedy await in this survival-infused metroidvania adventure.

$17.99

The Last Caretaker

Salvage, build and sail a flooded Earth while raising the last of humankind in your machine-run complex.

$34.99

Plains of Pain

A brutal post-apocalyptic sandbox where the sun itself is out to kill you.

$19.99

Cubic Odyssey

Explore procedurally generated planets, craft gear and ships, and fight the Red Darkness alone or with friends.

$24.99

StarRupture

StarRupture is a first-person open-world survival and base-building game on a planet torn by recurring cataclysms.

$19.99

Honeycomb: The World Beyond

Scan strange plants, crossbreed creatures and raise a base on Sota7, a planet that hides a mystery worth your patience.

$29.99

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