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Outcast – Second Contact is the complete remake of the cult title which sparked the open world, action-adventure genre. Take off on an exploration of Adelpha, an alien world as beautiful as it is dangerous, where your heroic journey places the fate of two worlds in your hands.

Release DateNov 14, 2017
Price$ 14.99  Top 15%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)82.5% (positive) / 78.3%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)77.7% Top 30% / 74.6%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)560  Top 20% / 816  Top 15%
Curators28 reviews  Top 20%
Median Play Time15.6 hours  Top 10%
Play Time per Dollar1 hour  Top 25%
Followers11K  Top 10%
Owners± 120.8K  Top 15%
Copies Sold± 26.8K  Top 20%
Gross Revenue ($)± 446.4K  Top 15%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of Outcast - Second Contact steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

Here you can see Outcast - Second Contact's Steam rating and reviews between November 2017 and December 2023. Steam's rating oscillates between 93% (November 2017) and 78.3% (December 2023).

The 816 reviews Top 15% suggest that Outcast - Second Contact might be an indie success or even a small AAA success. The chart looks like a long tail distribution, which sometimes means that the marketing was concentrated on the game launch and then stopped, and that no major update or discounts followed.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for Outcast - Second Contact and the proportion of players they represent.

This doughnut graph shows Outcast - Second Contact's reviewers languages. The most popular language is English (50%), followed by German (17%). The player's languages are well diversified, with 25 different languages appearing in the reviews. The game is available in 7 languages. Unless the game has a lot of dialogues, translating is usually not a lot of work compared to completing a game, therefore adding more translations is generally recommended.

Time Played

Chart displaying Outcast - Second Contact percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time players have spent in Outcast - Second Contact depending if the reviewer left a positive or a negative review. The time played is adequate, reaching 25 hours in the 80th percentile.

The median play time for the negative reviews is 5.4 times less than the median for positive reviews.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • Great exploration
  • Solid plots
  • Good action
  • Tuneable difficulty
  • Better journal system
  • Good graphics uplift
  • Upholding the original experience
  • Coherent adventure
  • Atmospheric landscape
  • Useful improvements
  • Imprecise controls
  • Totally stupid AI
  • Often too long walking distances
  • Annoying camera
  • Useless collectible items
  • Many bugs
  • Wooden facial expressions
  • No replay value
  • Controls are horrible
  • Lip-syncing is horrid

It's important to understand that this list of positives and negatives is not an unbiased evaluation of the game. Its purpose is to support developers in understanding what their players want. The game's rating of 82.5% should be taken into account when assessing them.

Please take this list with a grain of salt, as this is an AI generated list based on a small sample of Outcast - Second Contact's review data provided by Steam. You don't always need to solve every issue. What some players hate might be what your fanbase loves.

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