Where Are They?

WHERE ARE THEY is a pixel-art sci-fi roguelike about space exploration and the Fermi paradox. Your homeworld is gone. One seed ship escapes into deep space carrying the last survivors of your species. Your mission is simple: find a new home before extinction catches up with you. Explore a massive galaxy containing tens of millions of stars and hundreds of millions of planets, all on the same map. Travel through unknown systems, manage scarce resources, and make impossible decisions while crossing the darkness between stars. Choose from six species with different biological traits, adapt to hostile environments through gene editing and terraforming. Build colonies on distant planets, keep your population alive, and decide whether to settle down… or abandon everything and continue into the unknown. WHERE ARE THEY combines: • Roguelike survival gameplay • Open-world space exploration • Colony management • Pixel-art visuals • Atmospheric sci-fi storytelling Inspired by: • Seedship • Faster Than Light • Oregon Trail • No Man’s Sky • The Fermi Paradox & Dark Forest theory FEATURES • Explore a gigantic galaxy • Discover habitable and hostile planets • Build and manage colonies • Terraform worlds to survive • Genetically adapt your species • Encounter mysterious events, artefacts and anomalies • Make survival decisions with permanent consequences • Play directly on mobile and desktop The current version is single-player and actively evolving. The long-term vision: a shared persistent galaxy where players expand across space over real-world years, limited only by the speed of light itself. Humanity asked: “Where is everybody?” Enter the galaxy and find out!