Video Game: "FTL: Faster Than Light"

Rating

8/10

Review/Comment

Really fun real-time strategy indie game that I could play over and over. I always come back to this game and have a playthrough every once and a while. The mechanics of the game are somewhat simple and the simplicity combined with the variety of weapons, drones, character races, ship layouts, systems, (text) events, options for those events, etc. make for a great world/galaxies to explore and also makes it super fun to come up with your own strategies. The advanced edition update also adds tons of great content for free. I do wish there was more objectives than the get to the end of the sectors and destroy the mothership objective. An idea I had would be to add a mode that allowed to go through sectors that get harder and harder forever until you are defeated. I quite like the pixelated art style (though I am a bit of a sucker for pixelated art styles, even if they are bit overdone in the indie game world) and the chiptune music is very good and really helps me immerse myself in the game

Tips/Tricks

• If you have the cloaking ability, use it just as a missile or laser is fired by the enemy, as it will waste their shot and after you have finished cloaking, that missile launcher or laser canon will have to recharge before getting another shot that can land on your ship
• If you have upgraded and enough power allocated to your engine, you can get your evasion to or over 100% while cloaking, which will make any fired missiles or laser certain to miss your ship

Notes

I played this game as a child, so I most likely have some childhood/nostalgia bias

Links

FTL: Faster Than Light - Wikipedia