Create an Entire Galaxy in Interactive Fiction Game 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.

The Fermi Paradox is the debut title of Berlin-based developer Anomaly Games, whose members have worked on Kane & Lynch 2, Spec Ops: The Line, and more. We got in touch with Jörg Reisig, Anomaly’s lead developer and the brains behind Fermi’s initial concept, to discover how and why they’re bringing this potentially harsh universe to life.

Game Features

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?