Exoplanet: First Contact
Exoplanet: First Contact is a single-player, story driven action-RPG set in a space western universe, where real and fictional technologies meet the cruel and unforgiving, yet romantic reality of the Wild West…
Exoplanet: First Contact is an indie developed by Alersteam, released 9 December 2016 on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Exoplanet: First Contact is
Exoplanet: First Contact is an indie game developed by Alersteam and released in 2016. It was published by GrabTheGames. It is available on Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Sahara Engine (custom built).
The premise, in the publisher's words
You are playing as Jack Sharp, a daring adventurer, stranded against his will on a dangerous, wild planet known as K'Tharsis. Before Mister Sharp landed on the K’Tharsis, he was a proud owner of a hunk-a-junk private spaceship, the small freighter that he loved more than his life. His spaceship was both his home and the manifestation of freedom to Jack. In the prologue of our story this most precious thing was taken from him by force. Delivering suspicious "geologists" with military implants (ha!) and their equipment to a smugglers landing on the remote planet was quite risky, but the call of "easy money" could not be easily resisted in Jack's financial situation. Once he had fulfilled his…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Exoplanet: First Contact launched on 9 December 2016, within three weeks of Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Pokémon Moon and Pokémon Sun.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Pokémon Moon, Pokémon Sun.
Official trailer
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