I enjoyed my first 70 hrs or so, since the game has a nice implementation of all the gameplay elements I expected (resource gathering, progression via research, story-driven-quests, base building, territory-capture-point, hack-and-slash style combat etc). I liked the early-to-mid game challenge of survival with the progressively more demanding harassment from the negative weather "events" of the game, and in general I consider Beyond Contact a good game...

But, at the end-game it felt a bit repetitive and a bit tedious on the resource gothering, also the base-defence and base-upgrade-expantion felt not so intrifuing to make me gatting the"I dont wont to stop" feeling I have with some other "survival-base-building" games. I found myself getting bored to collect the resources for major base upgrades, and actually rushed the story-quests at the end, to complete the campain... The game does offer the end-game territory-capture mechanic, so the devs acutally are trying to offer something new at the end-lavel gaming, but for some reason I cannot figure out, I felt a bit "tired" of the game after 80 hrs and finishing the main compain, even though the game looks to try to provide me with more alternatives... Maybe what I would personally needed was an automatic way to collect resources at that end-game stage, or something...

Regardless, the 80 hrs enjoyment is far more than the majority of games I have played. And also the overall polish of the game is satisfying. The new opportunities the game offers me (i.e. the option to start a new-run with different character) declare the developers effort to keep the gamer interest high, regardless that I am feeling tired to take advantage of that fact. Summarizing, I definitely propose the game, and would rate it 7/10.

EDIT: The new-dame feature after having finished the campain, offers advanced options on tailoring game aspects like the "hunger rate", activating the main story vs freeplay ets... so I guess I could setup an interest second gamethrou if I had not other games waiting for me...

Good Co-Op Game