FTL: Faster Than Light

ive seen alot of people play this game over the years and it looked so fun. I finally decided to buy it myself and so glad i did, its just a game you cant get bored of especially with all the mods available. Be wary of boarders however they can end your run very early.
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Somehow I missed this game for over a decade despite loving roguelikes. I'm such a novice but winning even on Easy feels so thrilling - I love how finely tuned the balance is in this game, and how much winning feels like you earned it. 10/10 would get slug mind controlled again.

Impossible to finish, but it is fun to try!

Intuitive controls and clever designs. A mature, well thought out game. Good time waster.

Ussually i play game, its shit, <1hour played and refunded.

First session this game, 3,5hours or smth. immediately wanted to log back in and blast.

recommended.

A timeless masterpiece. Even after unlocking everything, I still want to play more so next is probably some extension mod.

Fun and challenging game with lots of replayability.

Challenging but rewarding gameplay, a high skill ceiling, as well as the incredibly well-executed art, music, and general atmosphere make this game one of my absolute favorites.

I own the game on multiple platforms, and find myself coming back time and time again to hone my skills and to repeatedly re-explore the map in different ways; the game plays differently depending on which order you choose to fight bosses and unlock the different items, skills, and upgrades.

FTL is the most toxic relationship I've ever had with a game that it's insane. It feels like I have hot dinner on the table when FTL comes home, but FTL starts drinking and starts to beat me for no reason. But I love it

Good game, just extremely bad luck pissed the FUCK out of me so i'm refunding it.

Don't let me dissuade you from the game though, extremely fun, i'm just very angry after losing a crewmate and 90% of my hull to a damn auto drone because i got XCOM'd right at the end of the game. Lost too much right at the end and I knew I was cooked.

I'll repeat again, great game, i'm just pissed off.

This game is just amazing. Super replayable, funny, interesting, strategic. It's very challenging the first handful of playthroughs until you get the hang of it. It remains challenging but becomes more intuitive the more you play.

Yes! This game is like Thai food... Mild (easy) is not so Mild (easy). Plan to lose a lot. RNG is fun but cruel...

Super addictive rogue like game. It kills you each time in a new way, but you want to try again and again.
10/10

After all this time. I've finally defeated the Normal mode. I bought this game like ten years ago. Too hard so I quit. Now, after some time, I tried again and it was still hard. But after religiously playing this game, I've finally done it! I just wanted to at least win once before I die haha. Man this feels good :D

After 14 hours I finally got lucky, making it to sector 8. I was giddy with excitement as I prepared for the final fight, having the strongest ship I had ever built. I met the flagship in head to head combat, forcing its retreat. It promptly returned and blew me to bits. As I opened the settings to quit I saw that at some point I had set the difficulty to easy, not even normal. 10/10 someday ill beat it on normal difficulty

W game even tho its from 2012 and the mods are crazy like thy can change the WHOLE game but even playing the base game is good with strateges diffrent wepons ships crew.

Its simply too randomized to not warrant a save/reload function, at least on easy.

There is a hilarious difficulty spike in the final sector. Makes a little sense since its the last level, but when strategies that worked on all other sectors and ships do not work on the last sector ships, it makes all that previous gameplay pointless. I utilized Anti-Personnel droids to great effect on all sectors, only to find that the flagship crew will automatically kill him in seconds. There goes an hour.

Even when you do figure out what strategies work on the final sector, its completely randomized on whether you'll gain the items and upgrades needed to implement them. And even if you do that, if the randomized repair spawns aren't in the right places on the finals sector, you'll lose anyway despite doing everything right. And even if all that does line up perfectly, you may just lose anyway because you can't hit anything, despite having a fully-upgraded weapons expert on board. This isn't skill, this isn't strategy, this is nothing. You can literally just download a generic "Space Ship" wallpaper and look at that while rolling a virtual die over and over. That is essentially what this "game" is.

If you're a fan of rogue-likes, I'd highly recommend Fear and Hunger over this. Those games understand the importance of static drops/locations, and balances it perfectly with its randomization. FTL is simply Satan in game-form looking to steal your time. NEETs have only become more common, who are probably the ones responsible for rating the game positively. If you're already wasting your time and existence, then sure, FTL can be fun. If you have a job, family, or any actual interest in life though, I can't recommend it.

One of the very few games I have kept coming back to again and again and again after having completed. It's just that good. There is really no other game quite like it. So many different ships to select to ensure you get a taste of the many different strategies that are viable. I would love to see more content (there is already a great deal of content). FTL 2 when?

Fantastic little game. I still go back to the soundtrack, and the game is addicting enough that I find myself installing it before anything else.

Lance beam but no true lance 9.5/10

Generally good game, more stratergy than action, very difficult, roguelike. basically if you dont like any of those, dont play it, but if you do, its worth it

A wonderful experience. Hard, but in a way that is understandable for RNG games (YOU GET AN ARTEMIS, THEY GET AN ARTEMIS, EVERYONE GETS AN ARTEMIS!). The fact is, if you like games like Rimworld and dwarf fortress where loosing is part of the fun, you will find a game that keeps you playing again and again, working for the next great run.

don't play this game if you have anger issues. you'll lose over and over again on easy difficulty even when you get so so close to the end. don't get me wrong, it's a great game with great elements and maybe a little too much rng, but i genuinely do not recommend playing this game for your health. seriously, i can feel my blood pressure just now beginning to settle

maybe its just me but i feel like games are supposed to be fun. I'm not having fun.

One of my favorite games of all time, deceptively complex, a perfect rouge-lite

Recommended: ★★★★★

"The best spacefaring disaster simulator ever made."

FTL: Faster Than Light is pure, distilled chaos in the vacuum of space—and I love every second of it. This is not just a game. It's a story generator where every run feels like a desperate sci-fi episode where you're the underdog captain just barely keeping your ship (and sanity) together.

One moment you're celebrating after salvaging rare loot from a pirate skirmish; the next, your oxygen system is on fire, your pilot's dead, and you're trying to fight off boarding mantises with a medbay that's out of power. And yet, you keep going—because in FTL, surviving just one more jump feels like a triumph.

The music? Hauntingly beautiful.
The gameplay loop? Addictive beyond reason.
Replayability? Infinite. Every run is different.

Even after hundreds of hours, I’m still discovering new strategies, new ship layouts, and new ways to spectacularly fail. And somehow, that’s the beauty of it.

If you like tactical combat, tough decisions, and managing a spaceship with duct tape and prayers—FTL is a must. Buy it. Play it. Rage. Laugh. Try again.

262 hours of gameplay and I still struggle. Honestly such a fun and rewarding game

Liked the music so I decided to pick up the game for $3 on sale, probably my best purchase on steam. One of my favorite games now. Definitely worth $10 and it goes on sale often too.

As a (slightly) famous man said "Do you have mild to severe autism? I know I do!... If you're anything like me you'll probably love Faster Than Light!" And yes as someone with mild to severe autism, this game is quite good for my fellow acoustic and electric guitars alike.

Best Roguelike out there. Play it. Get 500 hours, 100% everything, then download mods and get another 500 hours. Never get bored.

Well thought out game. Lots of variables to balance. Really alot of fun, though not easy even on easy.

This game is great; however, I cant recommend the steam version.

I have played this game a lot over the years, on many platforms. I will always think of it as a great game, but the steam version will not save progress for me. I have done all of the troubleshooting steps from forums and such with no luck. Most people apparently were able to fix this issue by jumping through a bunch of hoops, but I was not. Also, I was not able to get multiverse mod to work which is kinda a bummer because it seems awesome. Ultimately, I feel like Subset games should fix the saving issue and add better bod support. It is frustrating because this game could and should still be a cash cow for them.

Steam Buyer - BEWARE.

I recently just got back into this game and its so FRICKEN fun. I mean, I have the worst luck in this galaxy, but still. I love this game, and really recommend playing it!

The random generated maps add to the replayability of the game. Unfortunatly, I have yet to beat it, but I have hope. Just wish I could more readily sell the missiles and drone parts at shops and not have to hope I come across someone who needs said parts.

Caught onto how it works pretty quick. I'm struggling on normal difficulty, of which is a bit frustrating, but in a good way.

Would recommend to those who maybe have a darkest dungeon itch, kinda, sorta...ish.
Start on easy imo. Feels like the devs messed up and should have labelled "easy as normal", "normal as hard" and "hard as very hard".

This game is brutal—it doesn't seem that way at first glance, but it really is. Even the easy mode is challenging.
in higher sectores you can screw your run just from few unoptimized decisions.

But it definitely satisfies my craving for space combat , with power destribusion decisions, shields and laser blasts .

WIsh the events outcomes wouldnt be hidden , i want to chose my risk-reward outcome, not to guess it (or wiki it ) .

Its more fun to beat my head against steel nails than even attempt to figure out why the scaling of difficulty is this tremendous. If you're "easiest" achievement is only achieved by 42% of those that bought it, your game isn't difficult by mechanics, its difficult cause the RNG for anything to happen in your favor is unobtainable.

The first game I fell in love with as a kid.
have played only vanilla but I still have not gotten tired of it.
Highly recommend! (Also the soundtrack is amazing!)

Starts the game as Engi ship
Fighting bandits and Rebels alike left and right
Getting rich
Goes into a heavy storm with low hull (health)
No power for drones, shield, thruster, and oxygen, gets killed by a very weak bandit with a Galv beam
10/10

One of, if not the best ship to ship combat game ever made and it was made 13 years ago. The way that you can target specific systems of the enemy ship is what makes it for me. It is incredibly complex and intricate with all of the choices that you can make in combat (as well as out of combat), but simple enough that it takes only a short while to learn how to play.

Difficult to master but easy to learn. Some RNG can kick your behind when you are starting to feel invincible.

Great roguelike gameplay with lots of opportunities to make RNG manageable with skill. Lots of people seem to find it unfairly hard, but at least on Normal difficulty that's not the case if you engage with the systems. Some of the unlockable ships can die early due to bad luck though, gotta cope with that. It's a permadeath game after all.

Graphics, music and overall space flavor are excellent.

If you are into this type of game, you will love it.

Rebels will really shoot hull breaching missiles at you med bay then beg for mercy with 10 scrap

the game itself is very fun, but very RNG dependent on difficulties higher than easy mode, especially if you decide to play the advanced edition, which adds a ton of extra content and also makes the game slightly harder. the advanced edition adds new weapons, some of which are good, some of which are bad. it also adds two new crew, the metal eaters (i am calling them that because I can't spell their name) and the crystalmen. new sectors are also added. the new crew is mostly good, the new weapons are ok, but makes the game more RNG dependent. without advanced edition you are almost sure to find a few good weapons in the shops you cross, with advanced edition, you might go a whole run without seeing anything good, leaving you with basically nothing to kill the flagship with. on easy mode, this isn't a big deal since your weapons don't need to be as strong, so you can get away with the crummier weapons the shops might give you. on normal and above though? RNG is a huge factor. on top of that, the game is extremely punishing, even on easy mode. one mistake can kill a run, and you might not even realise you made a run killing mistake until multiple sectors later when your suddenly facing enemies you can't hurt because they have too many shields, or maybe because you weren't prepared for one of them to hack your weapons or shields. overall, fun, but very hard and RNG dependent, and requires very good resource management, even on easy mode where you get more scrap.

Also, mal ehrlich, FTL ist für mich einfach der Hammer. Ich komme immer wieder drauf zurück, weil's jedes Mal aufs Neue spannend ist. Klar, manchmal nervt der Zufall, aber das gehört irgendwie dazu. Und die Möglichkeit, jederzeit Pause zu machen, ist Gold wert. Für mich ist FTL einfach ein zeitloser Klassiker, der immer wieder Laune macht.

i wish i knew abt this game sooner, its a good strategy game and incredibly addicting.

The best game in history, i love this game but still after a 100 hrs in the game i can't beat it unless is on easy mode

Really enjoyed the game!

At first it can seem like a lot to keep track up, but after a while things become second nature. Had a blasting unlocking all the ships, and trying to win on hard mode.

Will definitively be recommending and playing this on and off for the foreseeable future.

Best game ever created. Especially with Multiverse mod.

Peak soundtrack, easy-to-learn layout, and fun lore

great game, even better with mods

This is a Perfect Game, in a specific definition of Perfect. It's the kind of game where if I were stranded off-grid indefinitely, I'd still be having fun with it as it is.

It all makes sense and your handily winning, and then suddenly its all gone to shit and you've died. 10/10