FTL: Faster Than Light
By Subset Games
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Description
The award winning PC spaceship simulation game from Subset Games comes to iPad! Includes the free expansion, FTL: Advanced Edition, which adds new ships, enemies, events, weapons, and more!
PC version’s awards include:
- IGN - Game Of the Year Nominee 2012
- PC Gamer - 2012 Best Short-Form Game
- Indie Game Festival 2013 - Excellence in Design
- Indie Game Festival 2013 - Audience Award
- Game Developers Choice Awards 2013 - Best Debut: Subset Games
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:
- Give orders to your crew, manage ship power distribution and choose weapon targets in the heat of battle.
- Pause the game mid-combat to evaluate your strategy and give orders.
- Upgrade your ship and unlock new ones with the help of seven diverse alien races.
- Hundreds of text based encounters will force you to make tough decisions.
- Each play-through will feature different enemies, events, and results to your decisions. No two play-throughs will be quite the same.
- Permadeath means when you die, there's no coming back. The constant threat of defeat adds importance and tension to every action.
Website - www.FTLgame.com
Twitter - @FTLgame
NOTE: Only compatible with iPad 2 or newer -- Will NOT run on iPad 1!
What's New in Version 1.5.14
-Prep for future iOS versions (64-bit support)
-More sound problems resolved
-Misc. minor bug fixes
iPad Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Fun but frustratingly difficult
This is an excellent spaceship sim but too much relies on luck not skill. While randomness is part of its charm, all it takes is a a couple of bad events to seriously hinder your game, even if you're doing well. Make a bad roll on an encounter and a crew member could die or your hull takes several hits of damage. Couple unlucky missile hits and your oxygen is now seriously running low or a couple rooms are on fire. Having skill can help you somewhat in anticipating these events and prepare accordingly but there's only so much you can do with the resources available. Took me about a week before I could finally beat all three stages of the boss on easy. Another weakness is that for the entire game you have to gear according to what you need on the final encounter. What might be working for you now won't necessarily allow you to win the game. After I beat this boss and after several more failed attempts in other ships, I've no longer have much motivation to play and put all with all this frustration. Easy mode should be that easy. I think the only difference in modes is how. I have resources you get each encounter. I'd really hate to put up with this game on harder levels. No longer fun for me and I'm quitting.
mini 4 (iOS 10.x)
"[N]othing we’ve ever done so far ever has been a business-driven decision." That quote is from an interview with indie developers Ma and Davis on the reason they decided to bring this hit to the iPad. It wasn't motivated by anything short of their appreciation for their customers, evidenced by their decision to release all of the new content without additional charges to existing PC users (and new iOS users). Best. Developers. Ever. And, by the way, this is one of the most polished iOS apps I have ever played. My personal pantheon of gaming greatness—a very short list of titles—increased in number after the tutorial mission! **Edit: Many thanks for adding 64-bit support.
Loads of fun!
This game is absolutely worth every penny. Excellently made and entertaining. I have whiled away hours and hours in FTL and still keep coming back for more. It's very comforting to know that the developers will provide continued support for their excellent creation into the future. Thanks for a great game, guys. Now, if you'll excuse me I'm going to try once again to unlock that secret spaceship....
- $9.99
- Category: Games
- Updated: May 24, 2017
- Version: 1.5.14
- Size: 180 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Subset Games, LLC
- © Subset Games, LLC
Compatibility: Requires iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPad.