FTL: Advanced Edition features:
- New systems, playable ships, alien race, weapons, drones, and more!
- A new sector with new events, written by Tom Jubert and special guest writer Chris Avellone!
- New music by Ben Prunty!
Did you ever want to reroute power to the shields, set phasers to stun,
or...
FTL: Advanced Edition features:
- New systems, playable ships, alien race, weapons, drones, and more!
- A new sector with new events, written by Tom Jubert and special guest writer Chris Avellone!
- New music by Ben Prunty!
Did you ever want to reroute power to the shields, set phasers to stun,
or even eject the warp core? Well, now you can! In FTL, you experience the
atmosphere of running a spaceship trying to save the galaxy. It's a
dangerous mission, with every encounter presenting a unique challenge with
multiple solutions. What will you do if a heavy missile barrage shuts down
your shields? Reroute all power to the engines in an attempt to escape,
power up additional weapons to blow your enemy out of the sky, or take the
fight to them with a boarding party? 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.
FTL's complex strategic gameplay allows you to give orders to your crew,
manage ship power distribution, and choose weapon targets in the heat of
battle. You will encounter unique alien lifeforms and technology. You can
upgrade your ship and unlock new ones with the help of six diverse alien
races. Be the Captain you want: hundreds of text based encounters will
force you to make tough decisions. In the randomized galaxy each
play-through will feature different enemies, events, and results to your
decisions. Each time you play another challenging session of FTL: Faster Than Light, it won't be quite the same.
Unlimited adventures in the vast depths of unpredictable space.
A new randomized galaxy to explore each time you start a new game.
Quick play sessions (from 5 to about 90 minutes) will allow you to add that spaceship commander feeling to any of your days.
One of my all time favorite games. It's incredibly challenging, but it is beatable (at least on easy and normal). This game is definitely easy to learn and difficult to master. The story and random events add a lot and the atmosphere is perfect. I really felt like a small ship's captain on the run from a nefarious rebel fleet. This game has incredible replay value, some of the best I've ever experienced. Each ship plays differently and each game evolves based on the random weapons and upgrades you find along the way, requiring significant strategic choices. The resource system is done beautifully, so that there's never quite enough scrap, and each decision of what upgrade to buy is incredibly important and meaningful. There are also well crafted mods.
I love this game. The degree of engagement one can get with their ship is immense, and when you look at it from the outside, the game is so simple! 2D graphics, a few lines of text, yet it feels like so much more.
The writing is really top notch. Outside of some curious coincidences when a refueling outpost you save thanks you with everything but fuel, the immersion is unbroken.
The game balance is just right. Play on easy if you want the story, play on normal if you want a challenge, and on hard? I've not dared... yet.
The best thing about it has to be the replayability. You can go back in with the same ship and face an entirely different challenge, because the taste of each run is decided by how you equip your ship, and your options depend on the RNG.
Some of the quests(United Federation & Ancestry unlock missions for example) feel really luck based and I would suggest getting them done on easy if you fail repeatedly and they start annoying you.
An unexpected knockout game. I've clocked hundreds of hours on the DRM free version, so I have more experience with this game than I appear here.
I've always loved space exploration games, and the idea of commanding a crew through mysterious systems sounds fun to me. FTL is a chance to have this experience and then some. The objective is simple; run, fight, and survive. If you do the first you will die. If you do the second you will die. If you manage, by luck, miracles, and some seriously fast thinking, you will be punished brutally and eventually probably die.
The RNG(Random Number Generator) is at play here at all times. Every jump into a new sector is a new experience, every jump into a way-point may be your last. Think you're armed to the teeth and can take anything on? WRONG! You are always a boarding crew or rampant fire away from death. It is random, and fierce, but it is also incredibly exhilarating.
You have a crew you can build a strategy with and it may work, but this is FTL, do not expect a one-size fits all method to save you when your mantis is suddenly being mind controlled and shreds your crew while a boarding drone punches a hole in your hull, lays waste to your shields, and beam weapons carve you to ribbons.
And that's only if the game decides to play 'nice'.
This game broke me time and again, and I was hooked from the start. Every failure was a learning experience, every success a matter of trial and error, planning, knowing when to run for my life, and a little good fortune from the RNG gods.
This is one of those games I will come back to from time to time. It isn't perfect, but it gets a lot of things right. It is a game that leans a lot on the RNG, but that's about all it really promises.
I have only a couple of minor gripes. The AI can be easily manipulated. This isn't much of a complaint, but on top of the RNG this game has a tenancy to behave very predictably. Another gripe is the lack of modes. Something more than the main game would be nice.
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