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The Fermi Paradox

77% positive of 958 Steam reviews

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Released
2021
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Platforms
Steam, GOG

Made by Anomaly Games.

About the game

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.

Tagged by players

  • God Game
  • Space Sim
  • Aliens
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Resource Management
  • Choices Matter
  • Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Multiple Endings
  • Diplomacy
  • Procedural Generation
  • Space
  • Sci-fi

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Honestly this is a great game and I recommend you at least give a try, the art is great, the music is good, concepts brought up in the game are good, and its mostly very relaxing except for the last.. half an hour? when you got multiple star civilizations going, also, its just really fun seeing how the art of a species changes through the ages

    11 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    Great game for the price. I enjoyed my time with it as a story generator more than trying to "win". The stories I told my girlfriend of all the different paths the civilizations were taking and events happening to them made her want to get the game as well. I will warn it is rough around the edge and you need to work with it as you learn the concepts to get the best out of it but even then for 20 dollars I had fun…

    17 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    As other recent reviews have pointed out, this game seems to have lost support. That being said, its current state wasn't too dissimilar to how it was on release, though that's not exactly for the better. This game has a lot of potential in its concept, but even ignoring small grievances, (such as the flare system, (which was improved over the demo, to be fair,) needing to zoom in on every planet to check…

    7.7 h played when written. 10 found it helpful.

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