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 38.3% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Survival 11.4%, Co-op 11.1%, Crafting 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like Beyond Contact, it tasks you with surviving and transforming a hostile alien planet into a habitable world through rigorous base-building and crafting.

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 48.4% ★, Survival 15.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Multiplayer 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the same tense, atmospheric planetary exploration and survival crafting loop on an alien world filled with danger.

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 33.8% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Co-op 12.2%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a compelling sci-fi survival experience focused on resource gathering, technological progression, and surviving a ruined ecosystem.

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 38.2% ★, Survival 11.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Co-op 9.1%, Space 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the open-world planetary exploration and base-building mechanics of Beyond Contact but in a more colorful, sandbox-focused environment.

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 33.5% ★, Co-op Campaign 17.5% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11.3%, Crafting 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: This cooperative survival crafting game matches the intense sci-fi threat level and base establishment found in Beyond Contact.

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 43.9% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 11.8%, Space 9.1%, Crafting 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A space survival game featuring robust crafting and base-building elements that parallel the survival struggles of Beyond Contact.

Survive and colonize Mars alone or in online co-op. Build and upgrade your base, craft equipment, mine resources, produce water, oxygen and food, explore an open world, and repair complex machinery in a technical survival sandbox.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.5% ★, Base Building 15%, Crafting 12.5%, Survival 12.2%, Co-op 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the intricate survival mechanics, base construction, and life-support management required on a deadly planet.

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 35.2% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Co-op 11.1%, Survival 11%, Crafting 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Blends base-building and open-world survival on a dangerous alien planet facing cataclysmic events.

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 41.4% ★, Survival 14.8%, Base Building 11.2%, Crafting 7.7%, Multiplayer 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines action and simulation in a hostile sci-fi setting where base construction and survival are paramount.

Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.4% ★, Survival 15%, Crafting 9.1%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Base Building 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: While terrestrial rather than sci-fi, it shares the brutal, uncompromising survival and detailed crafting systems that define Beyond Contact.

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 49.3% ★, Survival 14.5%, Crafting 11.6%, Base Building 8.9%, Multiplayer 7%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival sandbox focusing on base building and defensive crafting against hostile elements.

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 38.9% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 11.6%, Survival 9.3%, Co-op 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on terraforming and survival mechanics within an expansive open-world setting.

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 40.1% ★, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Crafting 10.2%, Co-op 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features session-based planetary survival where players brave hostile alien biomes, gather resources, and build outposts.

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 43.6% ★, Crafting 13%, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 10.7%, Space 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival crafting with resource harvesting in a dynamic sci-fi environment.

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 62.1% ★, Survival 20.5%, Crafting 7.4%, Co-op 3.1%, Adventure 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers an uncompromising solo survival experience centered around environmental hazards, health management, and resource scarcity.

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 55.4% ★, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 8.4%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Co-op 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival experience that emphasizes building bases and surviving dangerous alien ecosystems.

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 39.3% ★, Base Building 14%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 12%, Space 8%

Why You'll Like It: Challenges you to survive in the cold vacuum of space using scavenged debris to expand your makeshift base.

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 36% ★, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 11.1%, Co-op 11%, Survival 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Offers planetary exploration, base construction, and resource gathering across alien landscapes.

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 27.4% ★, Survival 17%, Crafting 15.6%, Base Building 15.6%, Space 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: An immersive space survival game where you explore open environments and craft tools to stay alive.

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 35.9% ★, Co-op 14.6%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 9.3%, Multiplayer 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A massively multiplayer sci-fi survival game centered around resource gathering and base building.

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 44.1% ★, Survival 13.1%, Base Building 12%, Crafting 8.2%, Co-op 6%

Why You'll Like It: A planetary exploration and survival sandbox featuring multiplayer crafting and combat against alien threats.

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 31.2% ★, Co-op 13%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.9%, Survival 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim and survival game that lets you build bases and survive alongside others on distant worlds.

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 34.8% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Survival 12.2%, Crafting 10.6%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Puts players in open-world survival scenarios on distant planets with standard crafting and shooter elements.

Honeycomb: The World Beyond is a sci-fi survival adventure set on the vibrant alien planet of Sota7. Adapt by building your base and crafting essential tools. Explore diverse biomes and use your bioengineering experience to uncover mysteries and secure humanity's future.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.2% ★, Base Building 14.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Survival 12%, Space 7.3%

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 41.2% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 12.4%, Co-op 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward open-world survival crafting game focusing on resource gathering and base construction.

Survive on the edge of space! Craft and upgrade tools, scavenge resources, and save a galaxy gone completely off the rails. Can Ordinary Man save the galaxy with the help of the immortal Chicken and some duct tape?

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.5% ★, Survival 15.8%, Space 9.3%, Crafting 9%, Base Building 7.9%

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 47.6% ★, Base Building 17.4%, Co-op 14.3%, Sci-fi 7.4%, Crafting 4.1%

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 49.8% ★, Survival 15%, Crafting 11%, Base Building 7%, Multiplayer 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game driven by crafting, exploration, and building shelters in harsh environments.

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 36.8% ★, Survival 16.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Co-op 12.1%, Crafting 9.5%

Vortex: The Gateway is an open world survival horror game with two game modes. If you want to survive then be alert, sneak, build and fight. Meanwhile life back on Earth changes dramatically. What changes? You will get bits of information through your adventure. Prepare for the worst!

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 61.7% ★, Survival 18.1%, Crafting 11.5%, Adventure 4%, Action 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: Combines open-world survival and alien exploration elements similar to the foundational themes of Beyond Contact.

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 41.9% ★, Base Building 12.9%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 12.2%, Sci-fi 5.3%

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 41.5% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 11.3%, Space 8.6%

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 37.9% ★, Base Building 12.6%, Survival 11.5%, Crafting 11.3%, Co-op 10.3%

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 48.7% ★, Survival 15.7%, Crafting 13.1%, Base Building 7.8%, Co-op 6.1%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.2% ★, Base Building 13.4%, Survival 12.6%, Co-op 12.3%, Crafting 11.6%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.5% ★, Survival 20.5%, Crafting 17.8%, Adventure 5.6%, Action 3.6%

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 32%, Survival 26.2%, Crafting 17.8%, Combat 8.4%, Simulation 5.5%

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 49.7% ★, Survival 14.5%, Base Building 13.3%, Crafting 13.2%, Adventure 3%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.6% ★, Survival 12.5%, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 9.7%, Co-op 8.3%

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 38.3% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Crafting 12.3%, 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 54.4% ★, Base Building 18.1%, Crafting 8.9%, Character Customization 5.8%, Adventure 5.5%

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 37.3% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 10.7%, Co-op 10.1%

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

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.3% ★, Base Building 16.4%, Survival 12.2%, Female Protagonist 6.4%, Sci-fi 5.7%

The Last Plague: Blight is an authentic survival experience rooted in realism and immersion. Endure the hazards of a brutal open world, uncover the origins of a mysterious disease, and become humanity’s final hope of ending the Blight.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.2% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Crafting 11.8%, Survival 10.7%, Co-op 9.3%

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 48.5% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Crafting 15.1%, Survival 14.2%, Adventure 3.6%

Last Breath is a solo/cooperative terraforming survival game. Dig through terrain, build powerful machines, and restore life to a dead planet. Work together to survive, automate, and reshape the world from the ground up, literally.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43% ★, Survival 16.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Crafting 10.8%, Co-op 8.9%

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 46.1% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Survival 13.9%, Base Building 13.5%, Difficult 5.9%

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 43.1% ★, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 10.6%, Base Building 9.4%, Space 8.3%

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 41.2% ★, Base Building 14.1%, Crafting 10.5%, Survival 8.4%, Multiplayer 8.1%

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 40.8% ★, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 12.3%, Crafting 11.6%, Difficult 7.8%

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 54.5% ★, Survival 16.2%, Crafting 10.7%, Multiplayer 8.6%, Co-op 5.6%

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 53.6% ★, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 12.1%, Space 6.1%, Sci-fi 4.4%

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 59.3% ★, Survival 13.6%, Crafting 9%, Adventure 5.4%, Simulation 4%

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 42.3% ★, Base Building 15.4%, Survival 14.3%, Crafting 11.9%, Multiplayer 8.2%

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 54.1% ★, Crafting 9.8%, Survival 7.7%, Space 6.3%, Co-op 5.4%

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 41.1% ★, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Co-op 10.5%