FTL: Advanced Edition

If you like Spaceships, Spacefights and Roquelike Turnbased-Action. This one is for you! Dont let the pixelated artstyle fool you. This is a really complex game about managing your ship, crew and resources. What i like most: - feels challenging, rewarding and realistic - perfect level of randomization of events - press space to pause aka semi-turnbased - lots of ways for personalizing your Ship and Crew - unlocking more ships for lots of different playstyles - difficulty Settings are really adequate

more than 230 hours in this game never played a game where losing is so much fun or in other words motivates you to start a new one imediately

I've been playing this for years, and racked up about 700 hours (including my steam play for the first year or so). I get in for an hour, try to win, and if I lose I don't mind. If I win, I try to dominate. I always play on easy, because I'm not looking for more challenge, its already hard enough on easy for me. I'm looking to escape for a bit, have fun managing everything, and hopefully win hard battles.

This is very fun. As fun as dragging your balls though broken glass. Surprisingly, the pleasure outweighs the pain, at least for the most part.

This game is... it's... (damn I can't think of the word cos I haven't used it in so long)... it's ORIGINAL. Jeez I never thought I'd use that word again :) You control a rebel ship which is just ahead of the advancing imperial armada. Over five sectors (each containing about 20 star systems) you have to develop your ship's systems and weaponry, recruit additional crew, and survive hostile encounters all while keeping ahead of the armada. In the final sector you must defeat the imperial flagship to win. This is pretty tough - even on Easy I only managed this the second time through. The gameplay is not about piloting your ship or manoeuvring in space - you actually control the individual crew members in real-time to man systems (weapons, shields, engines, helm, etc), repair systems, repel boarders, etc. As such it is a fire-fighting game and you do literally put-out fires as well (tho much more fun to open fires - and boarders! - to vacuum!). It's a budget / crowd-funded release so don't expect any cutscenes, etc but the cute graphics and tunes are more than worthy of a professional game studio. I've dropped it one star because I think it will get a bit 'samey' over time. The devs have done what they can to extend playability (each final victory unlocks another ship design, etc) but I think this is a game which is better dipped-into for a week or so every few months. Still top marks to the devs - who knew an original game would turn-up this long after the Golden Age of computer games (which for me will always be between the first System Shock (1995) and Morrowind (2002)).