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Games like The Fermi Paradox

Anomaly Games · 2021 · 76 % positive of 953

24 games that play like The Fermi Paradox and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Pegasus Expedition, Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ and Stellaris.

Player tags

  • Early Access
  • God Game
  • Space Sim
  • Choices Matter
  • Sci-fi
  • Indie
  • Aliens
  • Interactive Fiction

At a glance

What games like The Fermi Paradox have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Fermi Paradox: Sci-fi (23 of 24), Strategy (17) and Aliens (10).
  • They came out between 2008 and 2024, 9 of them after The Fermi Paradox (2021).
  • Best rated by Steam players: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (96 % positive of 3,931).
  • 7 games both play and look like The Fermi Paradox, among them Stellaris, Pax Nova and Galactic Civilizations IV.

By gameplay

Plays like The Fermi Paradox

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Interstellar Space: Genesis83 % positive of 772Shared: Sci-fi · Strategy · Space
  2. Sentience: The Android's Tale88 % positive of 167Shared: Choices Matter · Sci-fi · Multiple Endings
  3. I Was a Teenage Exocolonist96 % positive of 3,931Shared: Choices Matter · Sci-fi · Interactive Fiction
  4. ENDLESS Space™ - Definitive Edition80 % positive of 9,364Shared: Sci-fi · Aliens · Strategy
  5. Horizon59 % positive of 475Shared: Sci-fi · Strategy · Space
  6. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri™ Planetary Pack91 % positive of 461Shared: Sci-fi · Strategy · Space
  7. Galactic Civilizations® I: Ultimate Edition48 % positive of 287Shared: Sci-fi · Aliens · Strategy
  8. Out There: Ω Edition75 % positive of 1,690Shared: Sci-fi · Strategy · Resource Management
  9. The Universim80 % positive of 10,137Shared: God Game · Sci-fi · Aliens
  10. Star Trek: Infinite43 % positive of 3,328Shared: Space Sim · Choices Matter · Strategy
  11. Distant Worlds 271 % positive of 3,237Shared: Sci-fi · Strategy · Space
  12. Dawn of Andromeda43 % positive of 239Shared: Sci-fi · Strategy · Space

By look

Looks like The Fermi Paradox

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Starcom: Unknown Space92 % positive of 3,168
  2. Star Control®: Origins73 % positive of 2,617
  3. Star Trek: Infinite43 % positive of 3,328
  4. Crying Suns85 % positive of 4,267
  5. OPUS: The Day We Found Earth87 % positive of 1,564
  6. StarDrive44 % positive of 1,473
  7. Starblast81 % positive of 999
  8. 1000 days to escape83 % positive of 393
  9. Galactic Civilizations IV73 % positive of 1,887
  10. Outscape75 % positive of 419
  11. Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition84 % positive of 886
  12. Lords of the Black Sun19 % positive of 394

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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