FTL: Faster Than Light
FTL: Faster Than Light is a 2012 roguelike strategy game developed by Subset Games, a two-person independent team, funded through an early, hugely successful crowdfunding campaign. You captain a lone spaceship fleeing across a hostile galaxy pursued by a rebel fleet.
Managing power, crew, and systems in real time with a pause function, you navigate randomized sectors, making choices at events and engaging in tense ship-to-ship battles where a single hull breach, fire, or boarding party can spell disaster. You target enemy subsystems, reroute energy, and unlock a range of distinct ships and layouts, while permadeath and procedurally generated runs make each attempt different and demand careful resource decisions. Its addictive tension, depth, and clarity made it a foundational title in the modern roguelike-strategy revival.
A free expansion added more content, ships, and systems, and it remains widely available on PC and tablets, still influencing spaceship management games years later.
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Modern alternatives to FTL: Faster Than Light, with the devices they run on and their price. Ordered editorially by how well each one stands in for the original, with community votes weighted in as they accumulate.
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FTL: Faster Than Light Indie
€ 8,99The spaceship management roguelike with its free Advanced Edition update.
FTL: Faster Than Light runs on PC, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad. Not available on Android phone, Android tablet, PlayStation, Xbox, Switch. It is Steam Deck Playable.
Cobalt Core Indie
€ 19,99A deck-building space roguelike with tactical ship battles.
Cobalt Core runs on PC, Mac, Linux, Switch. Not available on iPhone, iPad, Android phone, Android tablet, PlayStation, Xbox. It is Steam Deck Verified.
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