FTL: Advanced Edition

The frequency with which other games are compared (positively or negatively) to FTL testifies to the "benchmark" status of this game. Casually enjoyable, the game can be comfortably approached by all audiences. Yet, the game has a depth of mechanics, challenges, and unlockables that keeps players gaming well past the 100 hour mark. The simple threads of plot through quests and flavor text don't distract from the game, but serve to anchor one in a lively sci-fi world that doesn't threaten to blur into just a set of mechanics and stats. You feel attached to each crew, but are not so devastated by your "loss of progress" at the end of a game that you don't want to dive back in. I am hard pressed to think of a game I would recommend more highly, or to so broad an audience. If you haven't played FTL, do yourself a favor and pick it up! :)

Seriously, just go ahead and get it. It's a steal at $10, at $2.49 its criminal.

I've played this game for many hours. This is generally not my type of game, but I found it different and cool. Reminded me of some games from the late 80's, but with much better graphics obviously! The fact that you can't just save and reload is something I'm not used to, but I found myself enjoying starting over and trying again with this game.

Simple idea, addictive gameplay. One of the few games I just keep going back to again and again.

This is one of the most interesting as well as nicest looking games I have played in recent memory. Very clever idea and a lot of hidden depth in the game play. However it is brutally difficult and if you are afraid to lose this is not for you. One aspect of it that I did not care for is that some of the random events have fixed negative or positive outcomes depending on your choices. The negative ones can be bad enough to end the run all on their own so it becomes very tempting to just look up the possible outcomes just so you don't end up losing because of something out of your control. However this was not bad enough to even take off one star because the game as whole is just that good.