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Games like Exoplanet: First Contact

Alersteam · 2016 · 75 % positive of 323

24 games that play like Exoplanet: First Contact and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Outer Worlds, Starfield and Star Valor.

Player tags

  • Open World
  • Action RPG
  • Exploration
  • Western
  • Post-apocalyptic
  • Choices Matter
  • RPG
  • Nonlinear

At a glance

What games like Exoplanet: First Contact have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Exoplanet: First Contact: Open World (21 of 24), Exploration (18) and Action RPG (12).
  • They came out between 2015 and 2025, 20 of them after Exoplanet: First Contact (2016).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Starcom: Unknown Space (92 % positive of 3,168).
  • The Outer Worlds, Planetaries and ELEX both play and look like Exoplanet: First Contact.

By gameplay

Plays like Exoplanet: First Contact

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. The Outer Worlds 273 % positive of 9,028
  2. QANGA77 % positive of 417Shared: Open World · Exploration · RPG
  3. SpaceBourne76 % positive of 773Shared: Open World · Exploration · RPG
  4. Starcom: Nexus90 % positive of 2,132Shared: Open World · Action RPG · Exploration
  5. Starcom: Unknown Space92 % positive of 3,168Shared: Open World · Action RPG · Exploration
  6. Planetaries61 % positive of 188Shared: Open World · Exploration · RPG
  7. ELEX74 % positive of 19,018Shared: Open World · Post-apocalyptic · Choices Matter
  8. The Technomancer68 % positive of 2,867Shared: Open World · Action RPG · Post-apocalyptic
  9. BLASTRONAUT75 % positive of 168Shared: Open World · Exploration · RPG
  10. Fragmented42 % positive of 1,956Shared: Open World · Exploration · RPG
  11. StarsOne73 % positive of 537Shared: Open World · Crafting · Early Access
  12. Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone63 % positive of 473Shared: Open World · Action RPG · Exploration

By look

Looks like Exoplanet: First Contact

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Project Genom47 % positive of 1,886
  2. Ereban: Shadow Legacy88 % positive of 267
  3. Voidtrain74 % positive of 5,956
  4. Lost Skies70 % positive of 1,772
  5. Planetaries61 % positive of 188
  6. Volcanoids83 % positive of 8,915
  7. DESOLATE66 % positive of 7,881
  8. Nightingale67 % positive of 16,206
  9. Dungeons of Edera68 % positive of 1,045
  10. The Repopulation51 % positive of 1,149
  11. Outcast - A New Beginning79 % positive of 1,292
  12. Star Wars Outlaws74 % positive of 4,792

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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