Games Like Beyond Contact

A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Survival 11.3%, Co-op 11.3%, Crafting 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the rewarding loop of terraforming a hostile planet, mirroring the research and survival progression of the seed game.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48% ★, Survival 15.1%, Base Building 12.6%, Crafting 11%, Multiplayer 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for hostile alien planet survival, focusing on exploration, resource gathering, and base building.

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Co-op Campaign 17.8% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: An excellent sci-fi survival game that emphasizes base building and cooperative play in a dangerous, research-heavy environment.

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.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Co-op 12.4%, Crafting 11.4%, Survival 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A unique sci-fi survival game that centers on aerial base building and exploration in a post-apocalyptic environment.

ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.5% ★, Survival 13.7%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.5%, Co-op 9%

Why You'll Like It: A mission-based survival game set on a hostile alien world that requires careful resource management and base construction.

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place – especially when you have been shrunk to the size of an ant. Can you thrive alongside the hordes of giant insects, fighting to survive the perils of the backyard?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.3% ★, Survival 16.3%, Base Building 13.7%, Co-op 12.2%, Crafting 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A highly polished survival game featuring base building and environmental hazards that require strategic planning to overcome.

No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.1% ★, Space 11.4%, Survival 11.2%, Crafting 7.2%, Sci-fi 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an expansive sci-fi survival experience with deep exploration and building mechanics across diverse alien planets.

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Co-op 14.4%, Survival 12.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Space 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep sci-fi survival experience with comprehensive base building and planetary exploration mechanics.

Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.8% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 11.8%, Space 9.2%, Crafting 9%

Why You'll Like It: A space-based survival game that focuses on crafting and managing limited resources in a hostile vacuum.

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.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 11.4%, Co-op 9.3%, Space 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on planetary exploration, resource gathering, and modular base building in a vibrant sci-fi setting.

StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.6% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Co-op 11.2%, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game with a focus on base building and automation in a hostile alien landscape.

TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.5% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Co-op 11.3%, Survival 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Features extensive vehicle and base building mechanics within a sci-fi alien environment.

Eden Crafters is a solo or co-op open-world survival, crafting, and factory-building game where you transform a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Build, automate, and terraform. Control the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.4% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 9.3%, Co-op 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on automation and terraforming mechanics within a sci-fi survival framework.

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Base Building 22.5%, Crafting 19.7%, Co-op 18.6%, Survival 17.4%, Multiplayer 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A unique sci-fi survival game where you build and upgrade a mobile drill base to survive a volcanic alien world.

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Base Building 21.2%, Crafting 17.1%, Survival 16.8%, Co-op 15.8%, Space 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: A complex sci-fi survival game that emphasizes atmospheric, electrical, and mechanical systems management.

Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.2% ★, Crafting 13.2%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Space 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that focuses on scavenging, crafting, and base building in a space-based setting.

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.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Co-op 13.3%, Base Building 11.7%, Crafting 10%, Survival 9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines survival, base building, and colony management in a 2D sci-fi setting.

You are the lone survivor orbiting a potential new home planet, tethered to what’s left of your ship. Gather nearby debris and assemble a make-shift vessel in an attempt to survive the harsh realities of space. Maybe you'll live long enough to uncover the truth behind the ship's malfunction...

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 11.9%, Space 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that emphasizes crafting and base building in the harsh environment of space.

Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.4% ★, Co-op 11.7%, Base Building 11.3%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game centered on building and upgrading a train while traveling through an interdimensional void.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 65.9% ★, Survival 21%, Co-op 4.5%, Multiplayer 3.4%, Crafting 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game with a hostile environment and a strong emphasis on co-op and resource management.

Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!

Why similar: Base Building 24.5%, Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Crafting 15.6%, Co-op 14.2%, Multiplayer 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale sci-fi base building and resource management on a beautifully realized alien planet.

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.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Multiplayer 7.9%, Crafting 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that emphasizes base defense and resource management.

Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.8% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 11.9%, Base Building 9.1%, Multiplayer 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused game with robust base building and environmental threats.

Embark on a galactic journey in Cubic Odyssey, an open-world adventure where you explore vibrant planets, craft tools, build vehicles, and fight the Red Darkness. Uncover ancient mysteries, and shape a universe full of life, danger, and limitless possibilities!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Co-op 14.6%, Sci-fi 7.3%, Crafting 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that emphasizes base building and cooperative gameplay.

GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.5% ★, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 8.3%, Co-op 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game with a focus on exploration, base building, and sandbox elements.

Crash-land onto a unique and hostile alien world and begin your fight to survive. Face its inhabitants, upgrade your technology, create outposts & bases, and find a way to repair your ship. Explore the beautifully strange terrain, all while blasting and crafting your way off of the planet.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 11.5%, Space 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on exploration and survival mechanics on a hostile alien planet.

Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.4% ★, Co-op 14.9%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 9.4%, Multiplayer 8%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that focuses on multiplayer interaction and exploration in a space setting.

Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27% ★, Survival 17%, Crafting 15.9%, Base Building 15.8%, Space 9.8%

Stranded on a hostile and deadly planet, you must gather resources, build shelter, and fight to survive each night. But the secrets of this world await in a gripping sci-fi survival PvP game.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 10.8%, Multiplayer 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game with a focus on multiplayer combat and exploration.

Scavenge abandoned ruins, craft gear from scrap and salvaged materials, and fight the environment itself as hunger, exposure, and exhaustion push you to your limits. There are no second chances—only adaptation or death.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.7% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 12.8%, Survival 12.4%, Co-op 6.4%

Stranded in a hostile alien world, you must fight to survive. Hunt, harvest, craft, advance skills, and build using local resources along with technology from your voyage.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.9% ★, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 8.5%, Multiplayer 7.1%, Co-op 5%

Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 12.3%, Sci-fi 5.3%

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.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.4% ★, Base Building 12.8%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 11.5%, Co-op 10.6%

KeepUp Survival is an open base-building and exploration game set in a natural, abandoned world. Build, gather, survive, and unfold your own story on a mysterious island.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Co-op 12.6%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 11.8%

You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.2% ★, Survival 15%, Crafting 11.2%, Base Building 7.2%, Multiplayer 6.9%

Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.1% ★, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 13.3%, Base Building 7.9%, Co-op 6.2%

Hostile Planet: Survival is a harsh adventure on an uncharted planet that full of danger and trials.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.1% ★, Survival 20.5%, Crafting 18.2%, Adventure 5.4%, Action 3.5%

Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.

Why similar: Base Building 31.9%, Survival 25.9%, Crafting 18%, Combat 8.5%, Simulation 5.6%

While searching for a new home, an unexpected failure in your ship has left you stranded on a planet surprisingly similar to Earth. Discover a vast open world, hunt for food, develop technologies, and build yourself a new home to survive!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.2% ★, Survival 14.5%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Adventure 3%

Survive, craft, and automate in this free prologue set on one of the planets you can transform in Eden Crafters, an open-world game where you play solo or with friends to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.4% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 8%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Remains - survival in outer space orbiting the planet. Explore the area. Find a way to restore oxygen. Create tools for your needs. Beware of the dangers of outer space. Build your shelter in orbit and try not to die!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.9% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 11.5%, Space 8.1%

Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.6% ★, Base Building 18.5%, Crafting 9.1%, Character Customization 6%, Adventure 5.4%

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.8% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 12.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Co-op 10.3%

Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 15.5%, Survival 14.2%, Adventure 3.6%

A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.9% ★, Base Building 16.7%, Survival 12.2%, Female Protagonist 6.4%, Sci-fi 5.8%

You’re a humble shopkeeper trying to live a peaceful new life, finding yourself surrounded by warring factions and dangerous creatures. Will you be able to carve out a new home for yourself and your customers in this open-world survival shopkeeping simulator?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.3% ★, Co-op Campaign 20.4% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 10.1%

Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.6% ★, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 12.5%, Crafting 11.4%, Co-op 10.7%

Brave a savage, unforgiving procedurally generated world where extreme weather and the nightmares of the dark will hunt you down. Alone or in co-op, survive, build, and explore to turn a cursed hellscape into your sanctuary of light.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.7% ★, Crafting 14.4%, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 13.8%, Difficult 5.8%

CrossWorlds: Escape is a hardcore game in which you will have to deploy all your skills to survive in a huge open world that is susceptible to changes in weather, seasons and various natural phenomena.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.3% ★, Base Building 14%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Difficult 7.6%

You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.3% ★, Survival 14.4%, Base Building 14.2%, Crafting 9.1%, Multiplayer 7.5%

Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.9% ★, Crafting 14.3%, Survival 14%, Co-op 12.6%, Multiplayer 9.1%

Signs of Life is a sci-fi survival sandbox platformer with a combination of procedurally generated and hand-crafted content. You'll explore mysterious locations, Mine blocks for resources, and meet strange (and some familiar) creatures, some of which don't even want to kill you and eat your corpse.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.2% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Space 6.1%, Sci-fi 4.4%

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.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 53.7% ★, Crafting 10%, Survival 7.7%, Space 6.4%, Co-op 5.6%

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 9.9%, Co-op 8.5%

You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.6% ★, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Base Building 9.5%, Space 8.3%

Crash-landed on a surreal, low-poly world filled with freakish inhabitants, choose between permadeath and non-permadeath modes and embark on an epic (and ridiculous) survival adventure. Will you manage to stay alive as you unravel the mysteries of Wrongworld and search for a way home?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 59% ★, Survival 13.7%, Crafting 9.3%, Adventure 5.2%, Simulation 4.1%

Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.8% ★, Base Building 15.6%, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 12.1%, Multiplayer 8.4%