Games like The Fermi Paradox
by Anomaly Games
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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$19.99SPORE™
Dec 19 · Maxis™
Both: God Game
Be the architect of your own universe with Spore, an exciting single-player adventure. From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations.
God GameOpen WorldSandboxColony SimSimulationExplorationSpaceCasualCuteScience👍 66,890
$24.99I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Aug 25 · Northway Games
Both: Choices Matter · Interactive Fiction
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony.
Choices MatterLife SimDating SimDeckbuildingVisual NovelRPGStory RichChoose Your Own AdventureLGBTQ+Interactive Fiction👍 4,446
$14.99Gaia Beyond
Aug 20 · Warp Turtle
Both: Sci-fi · Space Sim · Choices Matter
Gaia Beyond is a handcrafted 2D Action-RPG, an exploration mix built around the core features fighting, mining and trading. Your decisions are footprints within a vast non-linear solar system. Forge alliances among numerous factions and develop relations with hundreds of NPCs.
Sci-fiSpace SimOpen WorldSpaceTop-DownMiningChoices MatterRPGAction RPGTrading👍 240
-75%$1.99A guard walks into a tavern
Nov 30 · SuQing
Both: Choices Matter · Interactive Fiction · Multiple Endings
You are a guard whose job is to post bounties. Try your best to deal with various matters and make money to raise your family. But remember, when various factions come to you, you will have to make choices!
Choices MatterMedievalSimulationDark HumorStory RichFantasyInteractive FictionLife SimMultiple EndingsAdventure👍 415
-90%$1.59Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
May 20 · DigiTales Interactive
Both: Interactive Fiction · Multiple Endings · Choices Matter
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Pixel GraphicsDetectiveNoirInteractive FictionMultiple EndingsCyberpunkCrimeDialogue HeavyChoices MatterSci-fi👍 2,160
-20%$7.99Lightracer: For Judge
Jan 7 · Smartmelon Games
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings · Sci-fi
In a dystopian future, as The Judge with immense power, you journey through space to find hope in a divided society. This sci-fi adventure explores hope amidst adversity.
SimulationRPGExplorationVisual NovelAdventurePolitical SimSpaceChoices MatterMultiple EndingsSci-fi👍 462
$14.99Once Upon The Universe
May 29 · Paweł Witkowski ByteEncode
Both: God Game · Space Sim · Sci-fi
Once Upon The Universe is a god-game that takes you to the VERY beginning of creation. You begin the game just after the big bang, with nothing but an empty space and a lot of super hot hydrogen in the entire universe. Fill the universe with life and watch it thrive - or destory it.
God GameSpace SimSandboxLife SimSpaceStrategySimulationPixel GraphicsSci-fiIndie
$49.99X4: Foundations
Nov 30 · Egosoft
Both: Space Sim · Sci-fi
Your journey to building a vast space empire begins behind the controls of a single ship. Explore, trade, fight, and build as you rise to command fleets, stations, and entire economies in a living, fully simulated universe that reacts to every decision.
SpaceSimulationOpen WorldSpace SimExplorationSandboxSci-fi4XStrategyEconomy👍 25,274
$14.99Solar Echoes: The Star Legation
Feb 3 · Corefun Studios, LLC
Both: Sci-fi · Choices Matter · Aliens
Solar Echoes: The Star Legation is a choice-driven cinematic Sci-Fi Visual Novel game with RPG elements. Journey through space to gather and manage an alien crew, visit new worlds, negotiate with alien leaders, and even risk romance across the stars!
AdventureSci-fiVisual NovelChoose Your Own AdventureCharacter CustomizationChoices MatterAliensInteractive FictionDiplomacyMultiple Endings
$49.99Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader
Dec 7 · Owlcat Games
Both: Choices Matter
Made in a close partnership with Games Workshop, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader is a story-rich classical RPG from Owlcat Games, developers of the critically acclaimed game, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
RPGChoices MatterCRPGCharacter CustomizationTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based CombatStrategyTactical RPGCo-opAdventure👍 33,727
$29.99The Universim
Jan 22 · Crytivo
Both: God Game
Jump straight into managing your own planets as you guide a civilization through the ages. Build the ultimate empire in The Universim, a new breed of God Game in development by Crytivo.
City BuilderColony SimGod GameSandboxBuildingSurvivalManagementSpaceStrategySimulation👍 8,464
FreeThe Away Team: Lost Exodus
Jul 22 · Underflow Studios
Both: Choices Matter · Interactive Fiction · Sci-fi
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew—the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.
Dialogue HeavyAdventureChoices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureArtificial IntelligenceInteractive FictionExplorationAtmosphericStory RichSci-fi
$29.99The Invincible
Nov 6 · Starward Industries
Both: Sci-fi · Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
Rethink human’s dominion in The Invincible: a story-driven adventure set in a hard sci-fi world by Stanisław Lem. Discover planet Regis III as scientist Yasna, use atompunk tools looking for a missing crew and face unforeseen threats. Make choices in a philosophical story that’s driven by science.
Dialogue HeavyAdventureRobotsWalking SimulatorFuturisticSci-fiChoices MatterFemale ProtagonistSpaceMultiple Endings👍 10,083
$17.99The Sapling
Dec 12 · Wessel Stoop
Both: God Game · Aliens
The Sapling is a short simulation game where you design your own plants and animals, and put them in a world together. Or you turn on random mutations, and see what evolution does to your ecosystem!
Life SimSandboxGod GameScienceNatureArtificial IntelligenceSimulationProcedural GenerationDinosaursAliens👍 1,925
$49.99Stellaris
May 9 · Paradox Development Studio
Both: Sci-fi
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
SpaceStrategyGrand StrategySci-fi4XExplorationSandboxSimulationMultiplayerReal-Time with Pause👍 142,911
-20%$4.79Trainee Death Simulator
Nov 12 · Bone Nail
Both: Choices Matter · Multiple Endings
You will play as a Trainee Death, harvesting Souls to pay off your debt. Random choice events offer you various options: Lie in bed and slack off since the debt is endless anyway, Or follow your senior to earn some extra Souls, collecting outfits to switch up your style.
IndieSimulationCard GameChoices MatterMultiple EndingsRPG2D PlatformerSingleplayerCartoonCartoony👍 1,747
$7.99Save The World
Jun 1 · Winter Wolves
Both: Choices Matter · Sci-fi · Aliens
Aliens ask a broke young woman what's wrong with Earth... then start making everything she says come true. Shape humanity's future in a darkly comic sci-fi visual novel with consequential choices, four endings, conspiracy, and romance.
Choices MatterSci-fiVisual NovelAliensDark HumorMultiple EndingsStory RichDystopian ConspiracyFemale Protagonist
-60%$15.99Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game
Nov 9 · Iron Tower Studio
Both: Choices Matter
Colony Ship is a turn-based, party-based role-playing game set aboard a generation ship launched to Proxima Centauri. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and branching dialogue trees.
Turn-BasedChoices MatterTactical RPGCRPGParty-Based RPGRPGTurn-Based TacticsIsometricCyberpunkTurn-Based Strategy👍 4,104