Beyond Contact

When it gets good

Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.

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Based on all 1,164 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 24.8h for positive, 4.4h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.

Where players quit

Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (63.9% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.

All achievements (29)

• Detective Scan everything at the Survivor's Camp in a single game. 100%
• First Contact Speak with a Brachylon. 87%
• A Hopeful Message Listen to the Captain's emergency broadcast. 79%
• Still Breathing Survive 5 days in the same Solo game. 76%
• Don't Stop Me Now Be revived by an Obelisk. 52%
• Incident Report Scan everything at the crashed Aurelius in a single game. 49%
• Unphased Use the Transporter to teleport. 34%
• Bon Appétit Cook 6 unique types of food. 33%
• Taming the Wilderness Survive 25 days in the same Solo game. 29%
• Outpost Established Craft and place the Fabrication Bench, Micro Refinery, Oven and Oxygenator in a single game. 29%
• Hunting the Hunters Kill one of each Corrupted Brachylon type in a single game. 25%
• Well-Connected Activate 5 Obelisks in Story Mode in a single game. 24%
• Making Friends Speak with the Overseer. 24%
• Globetrotter Travel to every biome in Story Mode in a single game. 23%
• Minimum Amount of Flare Craft 37 ThermoSticks. 21%
• Refined Citizen Refine 200 Feron. 18%
• Legendary Survivor Survive 50 days in the same Solo game. 16%
• Hoarder Craft 10 Storage Lockers in a single game. 15%
• Workin' Together Survive 25 days in the same Multiplayer game. 13%
• Geared to Perfection Craft every armor set. 11%
• Got'cha! Slaughter 50 Chitterlings. 9.4%
• Exemplary Effort Complete all Objectives. 8.1%
• Hero of Ketern Save Ketern in a Solo Story Mode game on any difficulty. 8.1%
• Space Corps' Finest Save Ketern in a Multiplayer Story Mode game on any difficulty. 4.7%
• Exterminator Kill 250 Urchins. 1.9%
• I'm Having Such a Good Time Be revived by Obelisks 15 times. 1.6%
• Above and Beyond Save Ketern in a Solo Story Mode game on Hard difficulty. 1.3%
• Growin' Old Together Survive 100 days in the same Multiplayer game. 1.1%
• Galaxy's Greatest Save Ketern in a Mutliplayer Story Mode game on Hard difficulty. 1.1%