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Guide alien civilizations across millennia, choosing how they develop, survive crises, and seek contact across the galaxy.
Released 01 Jul 2021
Guide Alien Civilizations
Shape Species' Values
Guide Generation Ships
The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven sci-fi narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide species through millennia and help them explore the vastness of space, make contact and, perhaps, create harmony.
Developed by Anomaly Games · Published by Anomaly Games
You act as a galactic caretaker, guiding multiple alien civilizations rather than controlling a single faction. As species emerge on different worlds, their societies develop over time, each with its own history and challenges.
When events arise, choose among three responses that can shift a civilization’s direction. Interventions and resource decisions help you manage pressures such as technological change, conflict, and dwindling supplies, while societies continue to develop between key events.
Civilizations can advance from early stages toward space travel, send generation ships to other worlds, and encounter distant signals or other societies. Their paths may lead to contact, collapse, or different galactic outcomes, with each playthrough producing its own sequence of events and ending.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its unusual sci-fi premise and the stories that emerge as varied alien civilizations face choices and crises. Reviews also appreciate its imaginative species and writing, and some find its slower, observer-like style relaxing. Others say events repeat and choices have limited impact, making the experience feel shallow over time.
The Fermi Paradox is a choice-driven narrative strategy game in which you’ll guide alien civilizations that can thrive or simply survive through the ages, picking up radio signals from distant stars and finally making contact with one another by exploring the furthest corners of the galaxy.
Galactic God game: Play as galactic gardener rather than a single faction, guiding up to 10 civilizations simultaneously
Choice-driven gameplay: Every event presents three choices that change the course of history – every decision matters, and consequences ripple across millennia
Many unique alien species: From nightmarish deep sea creatures to graceful sapient plant-beings, there are even strange hairless mammals called Humans
400 different civilization-development events: Each event tells its own story and provides new choices that impact the story of that civilization – be it apocalyptic floods, sexual revolutions or conscious interstellar warships
Distinctive societies within starships and colonies: Life on a generation ship or on an unknown planet poses different challenges and special narrative events
Original electronic ambient soundtrack: Music playfully follows the evolutionary steps of developing civilizations and their spiritual, technological, and energetic trajectories.
Play again and again: Each play-through tells a different story and has its own ending. Will the people of that galaxy unite? Will they wipe out one another in a galactic war? Or will they perish, still alone, never really knowing that other alien life forms existed?
Twitch Integration: Let your Twitch audience vote on story choices in the game.
Become the galactic gardener!
Guide the fate of different planets, species and civilizations. Balance technological progress, military aggression and resource waste so that alien societies survive long enough to make contact with other species.
Choices matter
Alien societies grow and develop on their own – but you can alter the path of their development during crucial moments of social upheaval. How will society change when animals are domesticated, world wars break out or if civilizations begin cloning their own people?
Foster multiple alien civilizations
Develop societies from the Stone Age to technological singularity and beyond. How will they treat their own, and what will their beliefs be? What message will their first radio waves sent out into the cosmos contain? What are their intentions when travelling thousands of years by interstellar spaceships to another star?
Write the galaxy’s story
Each play-through will become a unique interstellar saga. From the first decision of which lifeforms will evolve into sapient species, there will be numerous choices determining the history and values of that civilization – from their views on sexuality and religion to their treatment of weaker members of society.
Overcome the long distances of space
Multiple generations will live out their days on starships seeking other habitable planets, while radio signals may echo unnoticed for millennia before they reach anyone that might listen. Of course, the society that sent out a signal may have already perished, and the starship answering their call might arrive only to find alien ruins. Elsewhere, distant colonies may develop into civilizations light-years ahead of the inhabitants of their home planet.
Keep the Balance
Each technological age brings its own challenges, from nuclear war to climate catastrophe, to murderous artificial intelligence. Experience the fragility of the universe, the dangers of military power and how peace might be wrought amongst countless intersecting cultures across the galaxy.
Who are Anomaly Games?
We are a team of indie game developers in Berlin, based at the Saftladen Game Collective. We work to make thought-provoking, inspiring and progressive games, and hope to offer a new take on the space sim genre. The Fermi Paradox is our first game together, but we’ve already made our fair share of video games. Our team members have worked on titles such as Spec Ops: The Line, Kane & Lynch 2, The Captain is Dead, Dreadnought and Sea of Solitude.
Content Warning: This is a game about the rise and fall of civilizations. This includes themes of war; oppression; and atrocities.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Age ratings |
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| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
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