FTL: Advanced Edition

This, along with their follow up title INTO THE BREACH are known as the King & Queen of both RNG Strategy (FTL) and Non - RNG Strategy (Into the Breach). Either of them can run on an utter potato (so think any tablet or phone with a few tweaks), and yet provide countless dozens of hours of very polished gameplay. There is one major MOD for FTL that is considered FLT2, and of coarse it is FREE. These games are known as classics in the gaming industry for a reason, makes me start to think there just may be something to this current Dwarf Fortress craze on Steam, haha! Well I am a game pro, I have to check them all out eventually :) THIS IS A MUST HAVE for any collection that involves strategy, same with the later game ITB. I highly recommend! Funny too because when I first tried it on my Xbox pass I was slightly unimpressed. Silly, as this is a gem, and I had even played some of the board games decades ago (as a youth/child) that this is based on.

This game presents an innovative set of rogue-like mechanics to challenge any player. However, the value of its difficulty remains questionable, as there isn't quite enough substance to warrant such a rigorous gauntlet. The objective of FTL to survive and quickly defeat a powerful rebellion amidst several randomized combat sequences. The player can acquire new crewmembers, ship systems, and other supplies through battle, purchase, or other encounters. The player can also earn new starting configurations from very good performance. But its highly stochastic environment provides overwhelming difficulty, even on the 'normal' setting. While the basic routine of blowing up ship after ship during a good run can be fun for a while, there is simply too much outside of the player's control to have every loss feel deserved. There are also too many ships, items, and choices offered that are objectively bad for a player to try and utilize. Regardless, the music is absolutely outstanding. The quality of the soundtrack is at an order of magnitude greater than every other aspect of the experience, combined. The OST alone is definitely recommended to anyone who enjoys percussion-driven, electronic ambience with a sci-fi flavor to it. Its graphics are servicable and help to provide atmosphere. Visual feedback is also very important to the combat, to which the game thankfully provides a good interface to communicate time-sensitive information. The narrative is a bit dry and difficult to appreciate, given that any real story bits are tucked away within rare or difficult side quests. Overall, it seems that balancing the gameplay to be more fair could offer a shorter, but sweeter experience. The music is ultimately what carries the experience and provides incentive to persist through the game's challenges. The game simply doesn't seem to fully respect the player's time, which could be better spent just listening to the OST while doing something more relaxing.

I just won my first easy difficulty run. I would recommend FTL for any rougelike fans, especially those who enjoy sci fi. It has unlockable ships and ship loadouts, which will keep those who like unlockables entertained. It has some really fun micromanagement gameplay, especially in the later stages when things can get hairy and you have to try and balance your power, keep firing on that enemy ship and also control your crew to fix up anything or repel boarding enemies. It is a fantastic game and addictive as it is, but one can't help but think how cool it would be to have a sort of open world sandbox game with similar combat and crew management!

You will just want to play again and again and the game will treat you like its bitch, but you can't do anything about it. You will get better and better and the game will punish you for it and you will want more. You might manage to stay away from it for a while, but its call will echo inside your mind "FTL! FTL! FTL!", you will be back. What is it? You choose one of the several unlockable space crafts, you see them from top and inside. Each room, each major and minor system, and your crew of aliens, humans and drones. You give orders in real time, or paused, after every jump you make to another solar system. You might have a very short (couple of choices) text adventure, or you might have a battle against aliens. You fight, you win some, you run away from some and you die once, sooner or later. The game is both far from perfect but also so well done that you feel the need to play it every so often, even if you dislike it. Is it winnable? Yes, I have won several times on both difficulty settings, but you will bleed, you will sweat and you will curse for every single time you manage to win. Buy this game.

I never play roughlike genre before. This is the first time, and it causes me an epic death to my crews, no missiles, low hull, fire all over the places, 3 guys + 1 chick RIP in nebula galaxy. Decisions and decisions are coming in every steps. I never enjoy permanent death like this one before, this should improve my cut through decision making and try to do it better in a next try. Honestly I think that the event popping up will not be varying enough, but I'm wrong. Not only about facing with enemy ships but other kind of events that drag you down to earth if you made a wrong decision or you're just too kind with no luck at all. My case is that I lost my "Cpt Haxpor" at the first event popping up, and left alone his "Ast Ksia" to control the whole ship. .... You know, I mean to play with that role, myself in the ship, but it's gone with the frist step. Just buy this game.