FTL: Faster Than Light

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 16 expert reviews

Excellent:

10
Good:

6
Average:

0
Bad:

0

Pros:

Strategically rewarding gameplay makes you feel like a starship captain, Fastpaced campaign loaded with tense combat, Many hours of enjoyable spacefaring adventure for just $10.
Superb risk/reward balance; great random generator; satisfying learning curve.

Cons:

Lacking in encounter variety
Dull universe; bland combat music; randomization can lead to pain.

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Last revision on April 22, 2016

Reviewers Liked

Strategically rewarding gameplay makes you feel like a starship captain, Fastpaced campaign loaded with tense combat, Many hours of enjoyable spacefaring adventure for just $10
Superb risk/reward balance; great random generator; satisfying learning curve

Reviewers Didn't Like

Lacking in encounter variety
Dull universe; bland combat music; randomization can lead to pain

Expert reviews and ratings

By Digital Trends on April 04, 2014 85

Space spiders are the worst. You try to do the right thing by saving a besieged space station, and all you get for your efforts is a dead crew member. Nothing changes that. Not pitch-perfect iPad touch controls, not an assortment of new features. FTL:...

By Blogcritics on January 13, 2013 100

Most of my gaming experience is playing huge triple-A blockbusters, games like Halo 4, Mass Effect 3, and Batman Arkham City. But every now and then brilliant independent games like Bastion, Braid and currently FTL: Faster Than Light by Subset Games...

By Expert Reviews on November 03, 2012 100

A deep, deceptively simple and brilliantly designed strategy game...

By PC Gamer on October 16, 2012 89

Polished and involving, FTL spews superb sci-fi adventures like a cornered Mantis boarder spews hot formic acid....

By Tech Digest on October 04, 2012 100

Name: Genre: Platform: Halo gives you the space gunfights. Mass Effect gives you the sweeping space-opera story. Dead Space gives you soiled underwear. Each offers a slice of life on Mars, but none have really managed to capture that feeling of...

By New Game Network on October 03, 2012 83

This game is simply phenomenal in one area, and merely adequate in every other. Faster Than Light strives to be the hands-down absolute best sci-fi ship-to-ship combat simulator, and it might just be taking home the trophy as far as gameplay is...

By VideoGamer on September 25, 2012 90

FTL ReviewHave you ever watched Battlestar Galactica and wanted control over the fleet's faster than light travel? Have you ever played Mass Effect and yearned for ship-to-ship combat instead of cover-based shooting and dodgy romances? FTL may just be...

By PC Authority on September 25, 2012 83

Pah! *leans closer, scarred face glowing in the warmth of the plasma-fire* Mass Effect? KOTR? Borderlands? games for sissies! Do you see how I got this scar, eh? *points gnarled, fingerless, hand at face* in FTL my friend, FTL... *cough, wheeze* you...

By EuroGamer on September 21, 2012 80

That the windfall didn't result in a bloated indulgence speaks highly of Subset's focus. If they can keep updating FTL with new scenarios, new spaceships and new stories with the same intelligence and restraint, we could well be seeing the birth of a future classic.

By GameTrailers on September 20, 2012 90

If you’ve every daydreamed about commanding a starship held together by sheer will by a bloodied, ragtag crew, these are 10 bucks very well spent.

By IGN on September 19, 2012 80

Faster Than Light is a fun little Roguelike set in space, but its randomness creates some impossibly tough situations.

By GameSpot on September 17, 2012 80

Tense combat, easy-to-handle ship management, and fast-moving campaigns make this a game that is far more than the sum of its parts, despite a few shortcomings with mission variety and the remorseless nature of the (mostly) save-free game design.

By GameSpot on September 17, 2012 80

Thrilling combat and strategic depth make indie space sim Faster Than Light a...

By GameSpy on September 15, 2012 90

Faster Than Light. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the USS Redshirt. Its doomed mission: to run like hell past strange new worlds, try not to get killed by new life and angry civilizations. To boldly deliver critical Federation data from...

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