Beyond Contact
Skip · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 27, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 24h 53h to 100%
- Value
- $0.83/hr
- Reviews
- 71% of 1,147 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 3 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
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?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD equivalent, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 43 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 3 days ago.
It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ARK: Survival Evolved ($14.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats GRAV ($19.99, scores 2).
More about Beyond Contact
8 of the 590 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 163 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 24 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 53, 2.2 times as much.
The drop-off
64% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
As a lover of crafting/survival games, I surprisingly had a lot of fun with this one. There are the bones of a really great game here. Maps are random procgen (seeded) and there are four very unique characters to choose from so there's a decent amount of replayability and the core gameplay loop of collect resources - make food - build base is surpsisingly addictive. I finished three runs and found myself wanting to...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Runs great and is a lot of fun ! Recommend playing with at least a friend so one can take care of building the base and the other explores.
This is one of those games where the yes/no recommend largely depends on what you like. For me it's a no, but it could very well be something for you. First of all, I really wanted to like the game. It feels pretty well done, polished, it looks nice and plays nice. It feels fairly intuitive, it doesn't take a lot of research to figure out how to play. Where it misses the mark for me is the balancing. It is...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Beyond Contact scores 27/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/877010/beyond-contactReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.