FTL: Faster Than Light on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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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.

FTL: Faster Than Light is a rogue-like, space and strategy game developed and published by Subset Games.
Released on September 14th 2012 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 10 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Japanese.

It has received 75,052 reviews of which 71,561 were positive and 3,491 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.4 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 2.49€ on Steam with a 75% discount, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified FTL: Faster Than Light into these genres:

Rogue-like Space Strategy Sci-fi Indie Singleplayer Perma Death Difficult Replay Value Real-Time with Pause Procedural Generation Tactical Space Sim Top-Down 2D Rogue-lite Survival Choose Your Own Adventure Simulation Adventure

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

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

Some integrated Intel HD graphics cards have been known to work but are not officially supported.

MacOS

OS:Mac OS X 10.6 or above
Processor:Intel 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

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, fully updated
Processor: 2 GHz
Memory: 1GB RAM
Graphics: 1280x720 minimum resolution, OpenGL 2.0 Support
Hard Drive: 175 MB HD space

User reviews & Ratings

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Sept. 2025

Pretty good game, but very limited replay value for the price.

July 2025

The best game i'll play in my life. I spent over 2000 hours on FTL, have every achievement on Hard and taken every ship over 7k point victory. I never played any mods, not even multiverse, because the base game was enough. Most of my hours were racked up when i quit drinking 10 years ago. FTL got me through that. Today, I just finished my last run with the Kestrel. This was the last time I'll play FTL. I have given enough of my life to it and I am so thankful to have had this. Time well spent. P.S. One of my many idiosyncrasies: I always put KazaaakplethKilik on doors and make him be "Elite Doorman Kazaak" + attempt (O2) related deaths when i had him. If you are reading this, please put him on doors sometimes and let the legend live on. I can just imagine him pulling little levers and enjoying it. :)

May 2025

A very meaty, challenging game with a great soundtrack, but held back by certain problematic "old-school" design choices. Good: - Music - The learning curve and the level of challenge in general, the game respects you and expects you to improve - Lots of builds, events, ships, systems... There's a lot of game in here, and it mostly feels well integrated and meaningful, very little chaff. Bad: - Each run is a bit too long - Early games, once the player learns how to deal with the challenges, feel too similar (and the very few random events that change this are too punishing and non-interactive, such as the early game shield disable event) - No event output descriptors: This is a big problem for me, I like the kind of randomness that leads to strategic risk-taking, but this game expects you to memorize all event outcomes and provides no information on the potential outcomes. This is bad design in general, but it's even worse with the longer run duration. - The ship unlock system is very poor, there are essentially random quests with weird requirements that you have to get lucky or look for a guide. - In general, this game requires way too much outside-of-the-game help. This is exactly the kind of old-school that should be left behind.

April 2025

After all this time. I've finally defeated the Normal mode. I bought this game like ten years ago. Too hard so I quit. Now, after some time, I tried again and it was still hard. But after religiously playing this game, I've finally done it! I just wanted to at least win once before I die haha. Man this feels good :D

Nov. 2024

It's great if you like roguelikes with resource management. Just and advice, space to pause the game when needed ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☑ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10 ---{ Author }--- ☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template

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Frequently Asked Questions

FTL: Faster Than Light is currently priced at 2.49€ on Steam.

FTL: Faster Than Light is currently available at a 75% discount. You can purchase it for 2.49€ on Steam.

FTL: Faster Than Light received 71,561 positive votes out of a total of 75,052 achieving an impressive rating of 9.38.

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FTL: Faster Than Light was developed and published by Subset Games.

FTL: Faster Than Light is playable and fully supported on Windows.

FTL: Faster Than Light is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

FTL: Faster Than Light is playable and fully supported on Linux.

FTL: Faster Than Light is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for FTL: Faster Than Light. Explore additional content available for FTL: Faster Than Light on Steam.

FTL: Faster Than Light does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

FTL: Faster Than Light supports Remote Play on Phone and Remote Play on Tablet. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

FTL: Faster Than Light is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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