Pandora: First Contact overview

Overview

Pandora: First Contact comes from Proxy Studios and is published by Slitherine Ltd.. It arrived on Steam on May 30, 2014, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP, Co-op, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Steam Achievements, and Steam Cloud. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Pandora: First Contact's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 2 players at 22 September 2026 - 00:16:03 UTC, with a tracked peak near 7. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 63% positive across 641 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Pandora: First Contact is available in 5 languages including:

2 regional rating boards including pegi and usk

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Pandora: First Contact has sold up to 50,083 units and has 538 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $981,000. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Pandora: First Contact overview details

Pandora: First Contact combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. In the future, factions have risen up from opportunities and ideologies independent of governments. Private corporations and religious movements have started wars over greed, ideology and power. Many have died and many lands lay in ruin. Planet Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world many light-years away. The most powerful factions have gathered their best men and women to send on a long journey to Pandora. Far from desolate, the earth-like planet has been found to host a plethora of indigenous life forms. While the gigantic monstrosities inland and at the oceans seem relatively calm, human-sized bugs and fungus are threatening to stop mankind's expansion. As the various factions strive to take control, each will research and develop numerous new technologies, discovering new weapons and industry, whilst opening trade agreements and forging alliances with other factions to gain a foothold. As they spread, they will discover ancient ruins from alien civilizations that will grant them advantages over their rivals. Key Features Explore a new world harboring a variety of eco-regions, from the frozen ice lands of the north, to vast deserts and lush tropical forests in the south. Survive encounters with the planet's dangerous wild life. Deadly swarms walk the lands and agile predators fly in the skies. There is even talk of a giant creatur…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Pandora: First Contact is listed as a game with $29.99. It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP, Co-op, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Steam Achievements, and Steam Cloud, and is associated with Simulation and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 2 players at 22 September 2026 - 00:16:03 UTC, a tracked peak of 7, and 63% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Strategy4XTurn-Based StrategySci-fiSimulationSingleplayerHex GridMultiplayerTurn-BasedSpaceReplay ValueAliens

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