How many people are playing The Fermi Paradox right now?

2 people are playing The Fermi Paradox on Steam right now, making it the 5043rd most played game on Steam. In the last 24 hours it peaked at 7 players. The number updates every few minutes.

What is The Fermi Paradox's all-time peak player count?

The Fermi Paradox's highest concurrent player count on Steam is 415, reached in July 2021.

Is The Fermi Paradox good? What do Steam reviews say?

77% of 959 Steam user reviews are positive (Mostly Positive).

How much does The Fermi Paradox cost on Steam?

The Fermi Paradox costs $18.99 on Steam (US).

Does The Fermi Paradox work on Steam Deck?

The Fermi Paradox is Unsupported on Steam Deck, according to Valve's Steam Deck compatibility check.

The Fermi Paradox

by Anomaly Games · Released Jul 1, 2021

Steam Deck UnsupportedLinux & Deck: Gold

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Review score

77% positive

Mostly Positive959 reviews

Owners (est.)100K–200K

24h peak

Highest seen415

Jul 20215.3 years ago

Price on Steam

$18.99

Lowest ever $18.99 Nov 2026

Concurrent players

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Media & details

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$18.99

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Editions and bundles on Steam

The Fermi ParadoxEdition
$18.99
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The Fermi Paradox + SoundtrackBundle
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Reviews

77% positive of 959 · Mostly Positive · Live from Steam

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Steam Deck

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Patches & builds

Every build released on Steam for this game since we started tracking it, with the developer's patch notes. Updated within minutes of each new build.

Mar 25, 2026, 6:43 PM UTC
Build 22503407the current build when we started tracking2 GB on Windows

Betas and other versions (2)

Mar 25, 2026, 6:42 PM UTC
074_sinope_update · build 22503407
early access - choice icon rework - unity 6
Feb 10, 2026, 8:49 PM UTC
073_ananke_update · build 21872727
early access - simple modding support

Patch notes

Mar 25, 2026
PatchSinope 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 event and the evolution flare was broken and had the opposit…
Feb 10, 2026
PatchAnanke 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 example mods that are already installed in the game. From larg…
Sep 3, 2025
PatchMetis 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 finish the Metis update, named again after a Jupiter moon. Ou…
Dec 19, 2024
PatchSteam 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, writer's block and fresh parenthood caused us to put out onl…
Dec 19, 2024
PatchIo 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 the Ganymede 0.70 update. The new flare system introduced i…
Dec 21, 2023
PatchSmall bugfix, Winter Sale and Old Version Branches
Hello Fermi Community, Before the holidays we pushed a small bugfix that removes a nasty blocker, which occurred when the crew of a spaceship went extinct by a population crisis. We also enabled the possibility to play old versions of the game. We will push a …

Other news (3)

May 5, 2022
Developer Stream : The Fermi Paradox @ LudoNarraCon
Hey everyone, LudoNarraCon is taking place May 5-9, and The Fermi Paradox is participating. We will showcase our narrative strategy game with a developer stream on Sunday. Otherwise check out the wonderful panels about narrative games and the other great games…
Feb 14, 2022
Dev Diary # 6 - How to setup the Twitch Integration
Hey everyone, With the latest Early Access update to our choice-driven strategy game "The Fermi Paradox" it is possible for streamers to connect the game to their Twitch channel and let their viewers vote on the story decisions of the game. How to do this? Fir…
Oct 22, 2021
Demo available during IndieCade, GIC / PGA (Poznan) and Utopiales (Nantes)
The Fermi Paradox goes on tour! And to let you all participate we decided to upload a new version of our demo. The demo will be available until the 3rd of November! We are visiting our first in person events since the pandemic and will be this weekend (22nd to…

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History

What changed on Steam for this game since we started following it: prices and sales, builds, name, release date and review score.

Review score: 77% on 2026-11-01 → 77% today (959 reviews)

Nov 1, 2026Price$18.99

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DLC

1 item on Steam, newest first.

The Fermi Paradox Soundtrack
$10.00100% positive

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Demo

Free on Steam. The demo has its own app, so its players are counted separately.

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Demo players now: 0
24h peak: 0
Highest seen: 0
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