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IndieSimulationStrategyRoguelikeSpaceSci-fiSingleplayerPerma Death

FTL: Faster Than Light

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.

Developer
Subset Games
Publisher
Subset Games
Franchise
—
Release date
Sep 14, 2012
Store page updated
Jun 3, 2025
Price
−80% $9.99 $1.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

88.0/ 100

Based on 417 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 😄 Very Positive 85% of 210
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 95% of 78,768
“10/10 rating, very good gameplay, never heard of bugs”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+2.01
Difficulty +0.85
“hard, every failure is a lesson, victory feels earned” (31)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+2.83
World +3.50

🔒 2 more indicators

Content Volume
+2.89
Replayability +4.45
“limited replay value mentioned negatively” (84)

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+3.15
Audio +4.15
“amazing soundtrack that stays with you” (31)

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+3.97

Not enough data — only 4% of reviews mention this.

Community +3.54

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
+0.88
Balance -1.68
“Engi cruiser layout A is unfun and worst experience” (19)

🔒 3 more indicators

Tech & Ops
+1.85

Not enough data — only 7% of reviews mention this.

Performance +3.00

🔒 3 more indicators

Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
80%85%90%95%100%
Sep 2012Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 205 reviews, peak 26/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive.

Review languages

Languages of the 417 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English70%
  • Russian8%
  • Chinese7%
  • French3%
  • Spanish3%
  • Japanese2%
  • Other6%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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