The Fermi Paradox
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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.
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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 simultaneouslyChoice-driven gameplay: Every event presents three choices that change the course of history – every decision matters, and consequences ripple across millenniaMany unique alien species: From nightmarish deep sea creatures to graceful sapient plant-beings, there are even strange hairless mammals called Humans400 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 warshipsDistinctive societies within starships and colonies: Life on a generation ship or on an unknown planet poses different challenges and special narrative eventsOriginal 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 matterAlien 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 civilizationsDevelop 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 storyEach 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 spaceMultiple 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 BalanceEach 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.
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MINORSinope Update - 0.74 - Choice Symbol Rework
Dear Fermi Paradox Community, This is a more spontaneous update to fix two major bugs while we are still working on our big Saturn Update. A quite serious crash could happen during the robot uprising
MINORAnanke Update - 0.73 - Simple Modding Support
Dear Fermi Paradox Community, After a long winter break we are back with a new update named after the small Jupiter moon Ananke. We added the possibility to create and use simple mods and created 4 ex
MINORMetis Update - 0.72 - Terraforming and Ingame Tutorial
Dear Fermi Paradox Community, After a long break we are back with an update for The Fermi Paradox. Doing game development with a 10 month baby at home is quite a challenge so it took us some time to f
MINORSteam Dev Diary # 7 - Roadmap Update 2025
Dear The Fermi Paradox Community, Development of The Fermi Paradox in 2024 was much slower than we hoped. We are only a small indie team and a mix of burnout, minor health issues, demanding day jobs,
MINORIo Update - 0.71 - Endgame balancing, and more to come
Dear Fermi Paradox Community, It took us some time, but we are finally back with a new update, taking into account your feedback on the flare system and the synthetic species that were introduced with
MINORSmall bugfix, Winter Sale and Old Version Branches
Hello Fermi Community, Before the holidays we pushed a small bugfix that removes a nasty blocker, which occurred when the crew of a spaceship went extinct by a population crisis. We also enabled the p
MINORGanymede Patch - 0.70.X - Balancing Fix for the new Flare System
Dear Fermi Paradox Community, We added a lot of new features in last weeks Ganymede update and needed to adjust the balancing a bit and fixed some issues with the robot uprising events. {STEAM_CLAN_IM
MINORGanymede Update - 0.70 - Rise of the Robots
Dear Fermi Paradox Community, This update has been cooking for a while, and we are happy to present you with a ton of new features. The Ganymede update, fittingly named after the biggest moon in our s
MINOREros Update - 0.69 - Hedonistic Worlds
Dear Fermi Community, Our first update of 2023 is out. We did some work on our internal systems and took some time to add some long requested convenience features. Now the game can be played with mous
MINORJupiter Update - 0.68 - Alien Contact Rework
Dear Fermi Community, This is our biggest update so far as we added more depth and detail to the Contact events, which always meant to be the climaxes of the game. We removed the randomness and made t
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