It was the result of a phenomenally successful Kickstarter and was an early success for crowdfunded game development.

FTL was originally released in 2012 for PC, Mac and Linux. We didn’t really cover FTL enough back when it came out on PC, so, a brief recap. Good news: the iPad version of FTL is every bit as good as the PC version, and in some it feels even more at home on a touchscreen. FTL is one of the best-designed PC games of the last several years, and as of today it’s on iPad. The brilliant starship simulator FTL: Faster Than Light offers answers to all those questions, though you might not always like what it has to say.

Would I be a good starship captain? Would I be able to make the snap decisions required to win a space battle? To weigh conflicting options and choose the smartest path? To manage my resources and keep my crew alive, to accomplish our mission?

Ask yourself: “Would I be a good starship captain?” It’s time to find out.Įvery person who has ever seen an episode of Star Trek or Battlestar Galactica has asked themselves that question, at one point or another.

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