FTL: Faster Than Light

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FTL is now available in 9 languages! English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Simplified Mandarin!

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46619 reviews
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Developer:
Subset Games
Release date:
Not specified
Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive (233)
All Steam reviews:
Overwhelmingly Positive (46619)

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Description

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.

Key Features:

  • Complex Strategic Gameplay - Give orders to your crew, manage ship power distribution and choose weapon targets in the heat of battle.
  • Play at Your Own Speed - Pause the game mid-combat to evaluate your strategy and give orders.
  • Unique Lifeforms and Technology – Upgrade your ship and unlock new ones with the help of six diverse alien races.
  • Be the Captain You Want - Hundreds of text based encounters will force you to make tough decisions.
  • Randomized Galaxy - Each play-through will feature different enemies, events, and results to your decisions. No two play-throughs will be quite the same.
  • 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.

Recommended 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

recommended*

Not specified

User reviews

SnoopSqueak
Not recommended | 15 Jul 2026
5.5h played

Why does anyone enjoy this game? How much abuse do you have to take before you get good enough to win *if* you execute everything perfectly and also get lucky? More than I am willing to subject myself to. I don't get

Helpful: 0
Moofy
Not recommended | 15 Jul 2026
102h played

This is a hard review to write, in part because it took me almost a decade to do so. If there was an option to do so I would put this down as a neutral review as I do think there is a good reason it has become so

Helpful: 2
KingYacob
Recommended | 14 Jul 2026
94.5h played

tl;dr A fascinatingly complex and original type of roguelite game that is well worth the time and money. Definitely give it a try, especially if you’re a fan of strategy gameplay. Full Review I had some vague awareness

Helpful: 2
Baskote
Recommended | 15 Jul 2026
24.8h played

Why did it take me 14 years to finally play this? P.S: Easy mode made the game much more fun. P.P.S: God tier soundtrack <3

Helpful: 1
Gam
Recommended | 18 Jul 2026
236h played

You command a vessel that consists of many rooms in a 2D grid with crewmembers to operate them, you must manage the power to each system to keep your shields online but also have enough firepower to take out the enemy

Helpful: 0
Bryzun
Recommended | 15 Jul 2026
107h played

The base game is already an absolute classic and good fun. One of the OG roguelikes that honestly hasn't spawned THAT many copies. Some have tried, but its like StS in that it is too perfect of a game, that any

Helpful: 0