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Games Like FTL: Faster Than Light
Sep 14, 2012·95% positive·
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Best games like FTL: Faster Than Light
The best games like FTL: Faster Than Light are Trigon: Space Story, Shortest Trip to Earth, Battlevoid: Harbinger, Distant Star: Revenant Fleet, and Void War. GAMESLIKE ranks these alternatives using shared gameplay metadata, Steam review sentiment, and similarity signals. Evidence includes 95% positive across 61k Steam reviews, Steam genre and tag overlap across Strategy, Indie, Simulation, platform support for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and $9.99 pricing signal.
- Trigon: Space Story - Trigon: Space Story is closely similar to FTL: Faster Than Light because both are Strategy and Simulation games, and share gameplay elements like Roguelike, and fit the same survival/crafting and systems/automation/colony and narrative choice intent.
- Shortest Trip to Earth - Shortest Trip to Earth is closely similar to FTL: Faster Than Light because both are Strategy and Indie and Simulation games, and fit the same survival/crafting and systems/automation/colony and narrative choice intent.
- Battlevoid: Harbinger - Battlevoid: Harbinger is closely similar to FTL: Faster Than Light because both are Strategy and Indie and Simulation games, and share gameplay elements like Roguelike, and fit the same survival/crafting and systems/automation/colony intent.
- Distant Star: Revenant Fleet - Distant Star: Revenant Fleet is closely similar to FTL: Faster Than Light because both are Strategy and Indie games, and share gameplay elements like Roguelike, Space, Strategy, and fit the same systems/automation/colony intent.
- Void War - Void War is loosely similar to FTL: Faster Than Light because both are Strategy and Indie and Simulation games, and share gameplay elements like Roguelike, and fit the same systems/automation/colony and narrative choice intent.
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About FTL: Faster Than LightShow moreShow less
FTL is now available in 9 languages! English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Simplified Mandarin! ************************ The free expansion, FTL: Advanced Edition, is available now! Content additions include: new alien race, events, weapons, playable ships, drones, and more! Also adds additional musical tracks by Ben Prunty, and events by Tom Jubert and guest writer Chris Avellone. If you already own FTL it should update the new content automatically. Advanced Edition is included free for anyone who purchases the game from this point forward. ************************ In FTL you experience the atmosphere of running a spaceship trying to save the galaxy. It's a dangerous mission, with every encounter presenting a unique challenge with multiple solutions. What will you do if a heavy missile barrage shuts down your shields? Reroute all power to the engines in an attempt to escape, power up additional weapons to blow your enemy out of the sky, or take the fight to them with a boarding party? This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
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Complex Strategic Gameplay - Give orders to your crew, manage ship power distribution and choose weapon targets in the heat of battle.
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Play at Your Own Speed - Pause the game mid-combat to evaluate your strategy and give orders.
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Unique Lifeforms and Technology – Upgrade your ship and unlock new ones with the help of six diverse alien races.
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Be the Captain You Want - Hundreds of text based encounters will force you to make tough decisions.
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Randomized Galaxy - Each play-through will feature different enemies, events, and results to your decisions. No two play-throughs will be quite the same.
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No Second Chances! - Permadeath means when you die, there's no coming back. The constant threat of defeat adds importance and tension to every action.
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