![]() ![]() Space combat is where the game makes you think. Looks can be deceiving, though! I made the mistake of underestimating how much is to do in the game when I started. You have a top-down view of your ship, and the star chart is straightforward. The gameplay looks relatively simple when you first look at it. It created another level of familiarity to the gameplay. It sort of plays like one as I thought more about it. It felt like a computer game from the 90s, and it plays a little like a tabletop game. I kept thinking there was something familiar about the game. Strategy games like this are a joy for me to play! I love thinking about how you’re going to get to the goal, what path will give me more resources to succeed, and trying to figure out why my carefully laid plan blew up in my face! It plays a bit like a Strategy-Roguelike if that’s a genre. Now that I’ve played it, I can see why it’s such a good game.īottom Line Up Front: I think this is a great game! I strongly recommend this to people who like either roguelikes or strategy games. I didn’t know anything about the game when it first came out. The game is a bit of a throwback to games from the 90s and came out when indie games were gaining popularity. Like other games in the genre, a punishing difficulty somehow keeps me playing. ![]() Like many roguelikes, FTL has about an hour or two of content, which gets extended by having a gameplay loop based on dying and starting over. This Faster Than Light review was a hard one for me. I wasn’t sure what to expect, and I was very surprised by how much fun it was! I would recommend this to anyone who likes roguelikes or strategy games. It also includes achievements specific to each ship, which can be achieved in order to unlock alternate layouts for each of the 10 playable ships.Īs of the free Advanced Edition update, many new features have been added, such as 4 new systems, a new subsystem, a new alien race and ship, Type C layouts for most of the pre-existing ships, new enemy ship layouts, new weapons, drones, and augments (made more easily purchasable by the addition of multiples pages to stores), 1 new sector, a plethora of new events, and various other bugfixes, interface improvements, and minor features.FTL: Faster Than Light came out ten years ago, but this is the first time I have played it. The game includes an internal Achievement system, which allows one to check their general progress in the game. Upon your eventual victory (or inevitable demise), the value of your actions will be calculated to create a score, which can be viewed later in the high scores section, provided it beats your previous high scores. The player may also accrue resources throughout the game, which can be used for the firing of certain weapons, activating drones to assist in combat, or simply upgrading the ship/buying stuff. Throughout the game, there are various events that the player is able to encounter at any beacon they travel to, with different possible results. The player may also choose which difficulty they wish to play on: higher difficulties result in less scrap gain and harder enemy spawns throughout the game, but an increased score multiplier at the end of the game. The player can select 1 of 10 types of ships, most of which have up to 3 different layouts with various combinations of systems, weapons, drones, and crew. While doing this, however, the player must also avoid destruction from the rebel fleet, enemy ships, environmental hazards, and otherwise possibly dangerous situations. Throughout the game, the player must traverse a total of 8 sectors with the ultimate goal of defending the Federation fleet from the final boss. In FTL, the player starts the game in control of a Federation cruiser that is on a secret mission to deliver a data packet which it has intercepted from a rebel fleet to the Federation fleet. The game was announced on February 27th, 2012 via Kickstarter and was formally released on September 14th, 2012. FTL: Faster Than Light is a space flight simulator game with elements of roguelike games, developed by Subset Games. ![]()
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