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FTL: Faster Than Light

Subset Games

2012•Strategy•PEGI 7•About 21 hours

Taste attributes: adventurescience fictionmonster/alien/supernaturalrobots/ai/spacevehiclesfastunsavouryheavyimaginarysimplelinearbig & variedemotionally undemandingall consuming questfighting evilhuman spirit/resilience/survivalunderdog triumphs

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Boxlist takeA fantastical, wide-ranging strategy game: unsavoury and fast-moving. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.

Pace: fast · Originality: balanced · Tone: dark · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

IGDB rating

86 / 100

431 ratings

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About This Game

FTL: Faster Than Light is a single-player strategy game with roguelike design. The player commands a spaceship from a top-down view, managing systems such as weapons, engines, shields, and life support while recruiting crew and upgrading the vessel. The ship travels across procedurally generated sectors, jumping between beacons that present random events, stores, and enemy encounters. Combat plays out in real time with the option to pause and issue orders. Losing the ship or its crew ends the run and requires starting over, giving each playthrough a different layout and set of challenges.

Summary: IGDB

Story

FTL: Faster Than Light casts the player as the captain of a spacecraft belonging to the Galactic Federation, which is losing a war against a hostile faction known as the Rebellion. The ship's crew has intercepted a data packet carrying information that could turn the conflict in the Federation's favor. Racing to deliver it, the crew must travel across several sectors of space toward Federation headquarters while a large rebel fleet pursues close behind. Along the way, the ship faces hostile vessels, hazards, and difficult choices, with survival depending on the captain's decisions.

Characteristics

Where this game sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast

FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal

DarkTONEWholesome

LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy

FantasyREALISMRealistic

SimpleINTRICACYIntricate

Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear

UnderstatedSTYLEStylised

IntimateSCALEEpic

RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

AdventureScience fictionMonster/alien/supernaturalRobots/ai/spaceVehiclesAll consuming questFighting evilHuman spirit/resilience/survivalUnderdog triumphs

Keywords

AliensPiratesSpace simulationRoguelikeDeathRobotsProcedural generationPermadeath

Where to play

Details

Developer: Subset Games
Publisher: Subset Games
Released: 14 September 2012
Series: FTL: Faster Than Light
Platforms: Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac
Modes: Single player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Time to beat: 11h rushed, 21h normally
Age rating: PEGI 7
Taste scores: How we score
Source: IGDB

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