![]() ![]() There are many different ships and weapons to choose from to suit a myriad of playstyles, with dozens of ships to earn in a number of ways, through in-game quests and achievements. It’s a very fun approach to being a captain of a ship, for anyone who wanted to be on the bridge of the Enterprise, delegating power to subsystems and weaponry alike. There’s very few games that do spaceship combat like FTL and FTL does it well. I’ll go into the story/lore below as I rate out each of the game’s important categories.įTL scores very high in gameplay. I go into detail with the weaponry below.Īs a free upgrade to all steam (and iPad) owners, FTL also has a newer Advanced Edition that adds many new events, ships, weapons, augmentations and more on top of the base content, not to mention a new race. Use the many weapons to target enemy ship sections to disable shielding or knock out critical weapons that threaten your ship. There are many skills your crew can pick up, not to mention upgrades to the ship, that can help improve your evade to keep you alive. The game forgoes any sort of movement / navigation during a battle for a simpler battle sequence that actually works real well. There are many, many text-based encounters that force you to make choices that will affect your ship, for better or for worse. Manage power to shields, send a boarding party to attack the other ship’s interior, fire missiles and lasers and more as your ship flies to the Federation homeworlds. You navigate systems, picking up upgrades to your ship and different crew members along the way, battling pirates, rebels and anyone else you think you can take on. At it’s core, FTL is a top-down spaceship combat game that challenges you to manage your ship’s crew, weapons, and systems in your effort to defeat the rebel (scum). It’s a lot different from other strategy-type games and has inspired a lot of knock-offs in the recent years. Despite that, if there’s a will, there’s a way.Īnyway, I’ve found myself playing this again. Unfortunetly, it isn’t the most mod-able game though. In fact, I played it so much that I also devoted a bit of time to modding it. I was bored this weekend though and decided to pick it up for cheap on Steam ($3.99!!) which included the Advanced Edition which I hadn’t yet played.īack when I was playing it, I knew I had something special. FTL is a game that I played to death a while ago, almost two years ago, and then kind of forgot about. This review is going to be a little bit different, as it isn’t a new game by any means. Captain your ship, command your crew, prepare your weapons, upgrade your systems and navigate to the Federation homeworlds as you are chased by the rebel fleet tasked with your utter annihilation. FTL is the new standard for space strategy games with it’s iconic pseudo 8-bit graphics and unforgettable soundtrack. For those who have wanted to command the bridge of a starship, FTL brings style and fun together in sweet perfection that will have you spending countless hours contemplating tactics and trying out different play styles.
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