FTL: Faster Than Light

Most of my gaming experience is playing huge triple-A blockbusters, games like Halo 4, Mass Effect 3, and Batman Arkham City. But every now and then brilliant independent games like Bastion, Braid and currently FTL: Faster Than Light by Subset Games...

A deep, deceptively simple and brilliantly designed strategy game...

Polished and involving, FTL spews superb sci-fi adventures like a cornered Mantis boarder spews hot formic acid....

Name: Genre: Platform: Halo gives you the space gunfights. Mass Effect gives you the sweeping space-opera story. Dead Space gives you soiled underwear. Each offers a slice of life on Mars, but none have really managed to capture that feeling of...

This game is simply phenomenal in one area, and merely adequate in every other. Faster Than Light strives to be the hands-down absolute best sci-fi ship-to-ship combat simulator, and it might just be taking home the trophy as far as gameplay is...

Pah! *leans closer, scarred face glowing in the warmth of the plasma-fire* Mass Effect? KOTR? Borderlands? games for sissies! Do you see how I got this scar, eh? *points gnarled, fingerless, hand at face* in FTL my friend, FTL... *cough, wheeze* you...

FTL ReviewHave you ever watched Battlestar Galactica and wanted control over the fleet's faster than light travel? Have you ever played Mass Effect and yearned for ship-to-ship combat instead of cover-based shooting and dodgy romances? FTL may just be...

That the windfall didn't result in a bloated indulgence speaks highly of Subset's focus. If they can keep updating FTL with new scenarios, new spaceships and new stories with the same intelligence and restraint, we could well be seeing the birth of a future classic.