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FTL: Faster Than Light

by Subset Games

Released Sep 14, 2012
$4.19
11 h to beat
iOS
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)

95%positive reviews

75,156 positive3,904 negative

What players say

Pros

Tense roguelike strategy with addictive runs
Great variety of ships and crews

Cons

Randomness can decide a run
Difficulty feels unfair to some players

Mixed

Some find it a masterpiece, others find it frustrating and unfair

Media

Trailer (YouTube)

System requirements

Minimum:

OS *:Windows XP / Vista / 7

Processor:2 GHz

Memory:1 GB RAM

Graphics:1280x720 minimum resolution, OpenGL 2.0 Support, and recommended dedicated graphics card with 128 MB of RAM

Hard Drive:175 MB HD space

Some integrated Intel HD graphics cards have been known to work but are not officially supported.

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…

Ratings

84IGDB players426 ratings
89Critics5 reviews
86Overall431 scores

Time to beat

10.7 hStory onlyto the credits
20.6 hStory and extraswith side content

Languages

Language	Interface	Full audio	Subtitles
Chinese (Simplified)
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Russian
Spanish (Spain)

Links

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