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The Fermi Paradox
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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Generally a really good narrative strategy game. its like playing a 4X game as an observer but you can control their RNG and what resources they find. My only complaint is that I wish it was longer with more FTL ages so civilisations had more of a chance to spread out and…”
— a player, Steam review · 23 hrs played“Its a very specific game to fill a very specific niche, but it fills it very well”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Something about an entire civilisation of people renaming themselves the Filth Porn Commune because their religious commune had a birth rate crisis over VR porn
Player activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 01:10 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Sinope 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
Ananke 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
Metis 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
Steam 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,
Io 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
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · God Game · Space Sim · Choices Matter · Sci-fi · Indie · Aliens · Interactive Fiction · Political · Multiple Endings · Strategy · Resource Management (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://fermi-paradox.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+) and Windows 10 Processor: x86, x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support. Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: DX10, DX11, DX12 capable. Storage: 10 GB available space