![]() I’m not one to like real-time strategy games, but this is a MAJOR exception for me, as Subset Games did a phenomenal job developing this game. Website - Twitter - Only compatible with iPad 2 or newer - Will NOT run on iPad 1!įantastic Strategy Game, just one complaint. The constant threat of defeat adds importance and tension to every action. Permadeath means when you die, there's no coming back. No two play-throughs will be quite the same. Each play-through will feature different enemies, events, and results to your decisions. ![]() Hundreds of text based encounters will force you to make tough decisions. Upgrade your ship and unlock new ones with the help of seven diverse alien races. Pause the game mid-combat to evaluate your strategy and give orders. Give orders to your crew, manage ship power distribution and choose weapon targets in the heat of battle. ![]() 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. It's a dangerous mission, with every encounter presenting a unique challenge with multiple solutions. In FTL you experience the atmosphere of running a spaceship trying to save the galaxy. Game Developers Choice Awards 2013 - Best Debut: Subset Games Indie Game Festival 2013 - Audience Award Indie Game Festival 2013 - Excellence in Design It wins a well-deserved Best Buy award and is one of the best things you could spend around £6 on.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! It’s easy to learn but deeply involving, and the randomly-generated universe ensures that you never play the same game twice. It’s as easy to use with a touchpad as with a mouse, will run on any display with a resolution of at least 1,280x720 and even works with many integrated graphics chipsets.Īlmost most anyone can play FTL and we strongly suggest that everyone should. Even if they’re not that good to start with, you can upgrade every system on your ship by upgrading, trading and salvaging parts or even entire systems, such as combat and repair drones and teleporters that allow you to board enemy vessels.įLT’s modest system requirements mean that it’ll run on any computer capable of running Windows XP or above and it’s available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. How much information you get about what its crew is up to depends on how good your sensors are. You can pause them, giving yourself valuable breathing space while you target weapons and re-assign crew to carry out repairs or man critical systems, but the action is often surprisingly frantic, particularly if an enemy vessel is blasting you with multiple guns and attack drones as you wait helplessly for your weapons systems or cloaking device to recharge.ĭuring combat, you’re presented with an overhead view of the enemy vessel, similar to the view of your own. The heart of the game is in its combat sequences, which take place in real time. You could find yourself facing hostile rebels or pirates, choosing whether or not to aid a friendly ship, searching abandoned space stations or making deals on alien trading posts. Every beacon is a possible encounter and each is generated randomly, in a manner that’s similar to dungeon crawling RPGs. As each ship has a different combination of systems, they add even greater replay value.Įach galactic sector is made up of multiple short-range jump beacons and your goal in each sector is to make it intact to the long-range beacon that allows you to get to the next area. As you progress through different stages of the game, you’ll earn achievements and unlock new ships and parts. In the end, if you’re clever and lucky, you’ll get to see your ultimate victory against the rebel flagship. You’ll never play the same game twice and the skyrocketing difficulty level means you’re likely to fail more times than you’ll succeed, forced to watch the deaths of your crew members as your ship explodes for the umpteenth time. Whether we’d lost the ship to hull damage just one stage into the game or had our last crew member die in a fire just as we were about to win, we couldn’t resist returning to the hangar and setting off for another try. This is particularly handy as you’ll want to keep playing for hours at a stretch.
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