Games Like The Fermi Paradox

An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.

Why similar: Space 50.4%, Strategy 27.7%, Simulation 16.6%, Singleplayer 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a deep, grand-strategy experience centered on humanity's response to extraterrestrial contact and long-term geopolitical planning.

From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.

Why similar: Space 34.6%, Strategy 21.2%, Sci-fi 16%, Aliens 11.4%, Simulation 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on complex diplomatic maneuvering and narrative-driven space strategy that mirrors the multi-civilization management of the seed game.

Take the reins of a feudal dynasty in a divided galaxy following the destruction of earth. Star Dynasties is a turn based, procedurally generated narrative of human drama and personal politics, mixed with a light empire management layer. Your choices. Your legacy.

Why similar: Procedural Generation 20.5%, Sci-fi 19.9%, Space 18.7%, Choices Matter 17.8%, Strategy 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines grand strategy with a heavy emphasis on character-driven narratives and political choices within a sci-fi setting.

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.

Why similar: Space 38.1%, Sci-fi 25.4%, Strategy 14%, Procedural Generation 10.8%, Simulation 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a massive, galaxy-spanning sandbox where player choices and ethics shape the development of space-faring civilizations.

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.

Why similar: God Game 47.4% ★, Aliens 11.7%, Space 10.2%, Procedural Generation 9.2%, Resource Management 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A planet-based god-game where you guide a civilization from the Stone Age to the Space Age.

Galimulator is a galactic empire simulation and sandbox game. See how Empires rise and fall, and how the people in them climb through the ranks to bring prestige to their Dynasty. Then throw in an invasion of self replicating Smatter monsters if you want to spice things up.

Why similar: God Game 69.6% ★, Simulation 20.5%, Strategy 10%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic, sandbox-style god-game that simulates the rise and fall of galactic empires through automated events.

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.

Why similar: God Game 47.6% ★, Aliens 17%, Space 14.2%, Resource Management 9.1%, Sci-fi 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features a unique evolutionary progression system that allows players to guide a species from microscopic origins to space-faring status.

Your word is gospel in this god sim set in Sub-Saharan Africa. Influence and try to control your followers using commandments but beware, free will leaves these open to interpretation. Will you create a flourishing civilization or lead them to death and destruction?

Why similar: God Game 54.5% ★, Resource Management 12.5%, Procedural Generation 12.5%, Strategy 7.3%, Simulation 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on indirect influence over a civilization through commandments, mirroring the hands-off god-game style of the seed.

Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.

Why similar: God Game 27% ★, Space Sim 23.2%, Space 11.2%, Resource Management 10.6%, Sci-fi 9%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi colony-sim that features deep narrative events and complex systems management.

WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!

Why similar: God Game 79.9% ★, Procedural Generation 10.1%, Simulation 5.8%, Indie 2.4%, Atmospheric 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox god-game that lets you observe and influence the rise and fall of civilizations over vast periods of time.

Create your Religion, raise your Disciples, and guide them to bring you glory! Inspire growth in your Disciples so they may challenge the false gods and convert their followers. Defeat your rivals, and become the One Truth!

Why similar: God Game 76.7% ★, Strategy 14%, Simulation 7.8%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to build your own religion and influence the development of followers, capturing the god-game aspect of the seed.

In Reus, you control powerful giants to shape the planet to your will. You can create mountains, oceans, forests and more. Enrich your planet with plants, minerals and animal life. There is only one thing on the planet that you do not control: mankind, with all their virtues and and all their vices.

Why similar: God Game 75.1% ★, Strategy 9%, Resource Management 5.2%, Indie 3.7%, Simulation 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: An indirect god-game where you manipulate the environment to guide the development of human societies.

ENDLESS Space™ 2 is a Strategic Space Opera, featuring the compelling “just one more turn” gameplay, set in the mysterious ENDLESS Universe™. As the leader of your civilization, will you impose your vision and build the greatest stellar empire?

Why similar: Strategy 80.8%, Space 12.8%, Sci-fi 5.7%, Atmospheric 0.3%, Singleplayer 0.2%

Why You'll Like It: A 4X strategy game that excels in narrative depth and unique faction-based storytelling within a sci-fi universe.

Lightracer Spark is a Sci-Fi Narrative game. You are an amender from a high civilization, descending to various extraterrestrial worlds. Guide living beings to prosperity, or nip a spark in the bud. Accumulate strength through choices and strategies to grasp the rise and fall of all civilizations.

Why similar: Space Sim 28.1%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Space 13.9%, Aliens 13.1%, Sci-fi 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A narrative-heavy sci-fi visual novel that explores the consequences of choices in a space-faring society.

A sci-fi turn-based 4X strategy game where you lead the fate of one of several factions divided between three races. Explore new worlds and new star systems filled with exciting secrets as well as dangers. Build cities, expand your influence and fight great battles on land and in space.

Why similar: Space 23.7%, Sci-fi 21.4%, Procedural Generation 18.5%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Strategy 13.6%

Why You'll Like It: A 4X strategy game that allows for exploration and management of multiple planets and civilizations.

Manipulate climate, add plants and evolve creatures in this planet and life sandbox simulation game. From cells to civilizations, spread life throughout the whole planet. Or just enjoy watching your creation burn!

Why similar: God Game 57.9% ★, Procedural Generation 14.7%, Resource Management 11.7%, Space 8.7%, Simulation 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game simulation that focuses on the development of life and civilization on a planetary scale.

Play with evolution! Species: ALRE is a scientifically-grounded, emergent simulation of natural selection. Creatures evolve and speciate in response to in-game mutation and selection forces, allowing you to experience and tinker with evolution in real-time.

Why similar: God Game 79.4% ★, Simulation 11.6%, Strategy 4.3%, Indie 3.3%, Singleplayer 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the scientific simulation of evolution, providing a deep look at how species adapt to their environments.

Interstellar Space: Genesis is a turn-based space 4X strategy game in which you attempt to build a thriving galactic empire. Discover mysteries among the stars, colonize worlds, and engage enemies in tactical turn-based combat on your journey to becoming the ruler of the galaxy!

Why similar: Space 30.2%, Sci-fi 25.4%, Procedural Generation 20.5%, Strategy 15%, Indie 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based 4X game that emphasizes exploration and diplomacy in a sci-fi setting.

Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.

Why similar: God Game 31.8% ★, Space Sim 25.6%, Aliens 11.9%, Space 9.6%, Resource Management 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-builder that focuses on the challenges of establishing a new civilization on a distant world.

Distant Worlds 2 is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game.

Why similar: Space 27.5%, Sci-fi 23.2%, Strategy 20.3%, Procedural Generation 15.9%, Simulation 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A complex grand-strategy game that allows for varying levels of automation, perfect for those who enjoy macro-management.

A dream among the stars — or a nightmare. 1,000 colonists in the dark between stars. Every pragmatic decision rewrites who they are. Discover what your choices mean for humanity, for better or worse.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 15.3%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Space 13.5%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Multiple Endings 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A choice-heavy narrative game that emphasizes the struggle for survival in a harsh space environment.

Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.

Why similar: Resource Management 27.7%, Space 26.1%, Sci-fi 20.4%, Strategy 9.4%, Atmospheric 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: A non-violent civilization builder that focuses on expansion and management without the typical focus on warfare.

Unending Galaxy is a unique space-sim in which you can fill any role from pirate or trader to the leader of a large galactic empire.

Why similar: Space Sim 31.9%, Space 20.2%, Strategy 16.4%, Simulation 9.8%, Sci-fi 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A sandbox strategy game that focuses on the macro-management of galactic factions and events.

Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown is a story-driven survival strategy game in which the fate of the iconic starship is in your hands. Take the helm, manage the ship and resources, and make difficult decisions. Will you be able to bring home the ship and its crew?

Why similar: Space Sim 32.6%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Aliens 14.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%, Strategy 8.5%

Explore the known and unknown galaxy with a ragtag crew of eclectic new friends in this narrative management space opera. You are a sentient spaceship, an outlawed commodity, and there's an entire galaxy between you and freedom…not to mention your abusive ex on your tail.

Why similar: Space Sim 24.6%, Resource Management 11.6%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10%, Space 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A choice-driven narrative game that focuses on the personal stories of a crew traveling through space.

CyberHive is a strategic space travel simulator with a non-linear story, in the cosmic opera setting, and in an anime visual style.

Why similar: Space Sim 33.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.4%, Space 13.7%, Choices Matter 10.5%, Sci-fi 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A management-focused sci-fi game that requires careful decision-making to ensure the survival of a space-faring colony.

Explore the Solar System. Mine and drop asteroids. Colonize and terraform. Lead the space race and compete with other corporations on your way to profit. Watch the expansion of human race over the centuries.

Why similar: Space Sim 38.6%, Space 20.2%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Resource Management 12.7%, Strategy 5.9%

Start as an asteroid, grow by absorbing other celestial bodies to become a planet, a star, and ultimately a black hole. Experience realistic gravity and orbital physics in an ever-evolving sandbox universe.

Why similar: God Game 32.1% ★, Space Sim 27.4%, Space 13.7%, Procedural Generation 7.8%, Sci-fi 7.4%

Play as an A.I tasked with helping mankind explore the vastness of space. Customize your ship, recruit a crew, battle alien vessels, research new technology and explore randomly generated universes.

Why similar: Space Sim 47.5%, Space 20.7%, Strategy 15.2%, Simulation 9.4%, Indie 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy strategy game that focuses on the management of a space-faring crew and their development.

Immerse yourself in a world as exotically beautiful as it is dangerous in this modern God-Game where Nature is the Star!

Why similar: God Game 88.5% ★, Strategy 5.2%, Simulation 5.1%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: A god-game that emphasizes environmental manipulation to protect and guide a primitive tribe.

Massive scale 4X-RTS set in space. Control hundreds of planets, manipulate galactic politics, research numerous advanced technologies, and command thousands of units and hundreds of planets in your quest for galactic dominance.

Why similar: Space 41.5%, Sci-fi 29.7%, Strategy 22.8%, Indie 6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a grand-scale space strategy experience with unique diplomatic and economic systems.

Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.

Why similar: Space Sim 37.3%, God Game 28% ★, Space 16.9%, Sci-fi 6.4%, Simulation 4.9%

Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual components on ships to the stars themselves)...

Why similar: Space 41.9%, Strategy 29%, Sci-fi 19.2%, Indie 9%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Starship Inspector is a Space Roguelike in which every choice you make matters. Save a galaxy or rescue your crew member? Serve an evil empire or help an ancient tribe? You'll constantly have to make hard decisions and deal with consequences.

Why similar: Space Sim 21.7%, Space 13.9%, Strategy 13%, Sci-fi 11.5%, Procedural Generation 9.2%

Astrox Imperium is a relaxing space game where you fly around a generated universe. Mining, Fighting, Building, Exploring, and Surviving. What makes this game unique? You have complete control of how it plays. A robust sandbox and lots of MOD tools. Make it your game, and play it your own way.

Why similar: Space Sim 44.7%, Space 30.8%, Sci-fi 9.2%, Simulation 6.5%, Indie 3.7%

Take command of your hand-tailored fleet of space warships and use realistic radar, electronic warfare, advanced movement controls in 3D space, and precision targeting to outmaneuver and outwit your opponents in a simulation-heavy tactical space game like no other.

Why similar: Space 51.5%, Strategy 27%, Simulation 15.9%, Singleplayer 5.5%

This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

Why similar: Space 23.8%, Space Sim 23.5%, Sci-fi 15.5%, Procedural Generation 9.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.2%

A spaceship simulator for aliens, an ever-changing rule discovery puzzle for humans.

Why similar: Aliens 34.9%, Space Sim 19.5%, Sci-fi 13.3%, Space 12.4%, Strategy 7.3%

Terraform Mars in this turn-based colony builder and resource management game with roguelike elements. Explore the planet, develop spectacular cities, spread life and turn the Red Planet into a green one!

Why similar: Procedural Generation 19.8%, Space 18.1%, Resource Management 17.4%, Choices Matter 16%, Sci-fi 15.2%

Managing a fleet across a dangerous galaxy. Every star and planet holds untold riches and dangers. Each encounter will require skills in trading, diplomacy, and combat. Allocate power to engines, charge all weapons, and take on the worst the galaxy has to handle.

Why similar: Space Sim 31.8%, Soundtrack 18.6% ★, Space 15%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Sci-fi 11.4%

From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.

Why similar: Space 26.6%, Sci-fi 23%, Space Sim 18%, Strategy 10.9%, Atmospheric 7.7%

You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.

Why similar: Resource Management 53.2%, Strategy 25.9%, Simulation 15.8%, Singleplayer 5.1%

The Pegasus Expedition is a story-driven sci-fi grand strategy game set in a key moment for humankind’s survival. Facing an overwhelming threat at home, humanity sends expeditions to the Pegasus Galaxy in a desperate attempt to find a refuge for the population of Earth.

Why similar: Aliens 27%, Space 18.3%, Choices Matter 14.9%, Sci-fi 14.8%, Strategy 8.1%

ENDLESS Space™ is a turn-based 4X strategy game, covering the space colonization age in the ENDLESS Universe™, where you can control every aspect of your civilization as you strive for galactic domination.

Why similar: Space 35.5%, Strategy 28.7%, Sci-fi 22%, Aliens 8.7%, Indie 2.2%

Star Trek: Infinite is a grand strategy experience that lets you play your own Star Trek story as the leader of one of four major factions in the galaxy. Follow the specially crafted story or blaze your own trail in the first Star Trek grand strategy game.

Why similar: Space Sim 46%, Space 25.9%, Choices Matter 12.5%, Strategy 7.7%, Story Rich 4.4%

Predestination is a turn-based sci-fi 4X game set in the distant past of our own galaxy. Ships from countless races are flung back in time by a powerful hostile race known as the Revenants, and must now work to rebuild their empires and somehow stop the Revenants in the past.

Why similar: Space 37.8%, Strategy 29.3%, Sci-fi 20.8%, Indie 12.1%

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Space Sim 36.5%, Space 16.9%, Resource Management 14.7%, Sci-fi 12.7%, Strategy 7.5%

A rock's solar system odyssey.

Why similar: God Game 49.9% ★, Space Sim 39%, Procedural Generation 4.2%, Strategy 3.3%, Simulation 2.1%

Dynamic abstract sandbox universe. Changes and evolves as you do.

Why similar: God Game 26.9% ★, Space 24.4%, Space Sim 20.5%, Sci-fi 7.2%, Procedural Generation 7%

Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 27.1%, Resource Management 22.6%, Choices Matter 19.8%, Strategy 12.7%, Story Rich 8%

You will have to lead the civilization, develop the economy, enhance the technology, stabilize the people and colonize new galaxies; when encountering unknown civilizations, will you hide yourself or communicate with them in a friendly way? In this "dark forest", every decision will be crucial.

Why similar: Space Sim 42.1%, Aliens 22.5%, Space 12.8%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Strategy 8.2%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: Aliens 27.7%, Resource Management 19.6%, Space 15.9%, Sci-fi 15%, Strategy 9.2%

Pandora: First Contact is a science fiction 4X turn-based strategy game on a planetary scale. Our Earth has been exhausted and colonial attempts on other planetary bodies have been in vain. Finally, after decades of exploration, an interstellar probe has brought promise of a new world.

Why similar: Sci-fi 36.5%, Strategy 34.5%, Space 17.2%, Simulation 9.1%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Fantasy Map Simulator: Create and watch imaginary worlds evolve over centuries. Design maps, simulate nations and their politics, and control destinies. See empires rise and fall on your desktop wallpaper. A unique simulation for history buffs and creative minds.

Why similar: God Game 78.8% ★, Strategy 6.5%, Procedural Generation 6.2%, Simulation 3.6%, 2D 3.5%

Distant Worlds is a vast, pausable real-time 4X space strategy game. Experience the full depth and detail of turn-based strategy, but with the simplicity and ease of real-time, and on the scale of a massively-multiplayer online game.

Why similar: Space 41.8%, Sci-fi 24.5%, Strategy 20.9%, Simulation 7.5%, 2D 2%

Play as the leader of a civilization, make it prosper and stand the test of time. Orbi Universo is a strategy/simulation game in which you manage your civilization with an abstract and complex node system and you make your society evolve through different periods, from cavemen to the Modern Era.

Why similar: Strategy 37%, Simulation 26.2%, Indie 18%, 2D 13.9%, Singleplayer 4.8%

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.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 18.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 17.1%, Choices Matter 15.3%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Space 11.5%

Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.

Why similar: God Game 55% ★, Choices Matter 16.6%, Resource Management 15.1%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 4.7%

Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.

Why similar: Procedural Generation 24.7%, Resource Management 24.6%, Sci-fi 17.7%, Story Rich 10.9%, Simulation 8.5%

Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.

Why similar: Space Sim 23%, Aliens 16.2%, Space 14.5%, Resource Management 13%, Sci-fi 11.2%