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FTL: Faster Than Light

Platforms

iOS
Mac
PC

Initial release Sept. 14, 2012

Genres

Indie
Roguelike
RPG
Space Combat
Strategy

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The player characters from Dead Cells, Hades 2, and Spelunky 2 line up against a background map from Caves of Qud.

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The 19 best roguelike games on PC

Going rogue

June 20, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

Artwork for No Man's Sky, Mass Effect Legendary Edition and Elite Dangerous form the header image for the RPS Bestest Best: Reader Edition for favourite space games

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These are your 25 favourite space games of all time

As voted for by the RPS readership

June 2, 2023 Katharine Castle

Artwork from Stellaris, No Man's Sky and Mass Effect comprise our header image for our Best Space Games list.

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The 20 best space games on PC

Be pilots, pirates and space truckers

May 3, 2023 Katharine Castle

Artwork from Into The Breach and a large alien head from XCOM 2

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The 50 best strategy games to play on PC

From tiny robot battles to grand historical warfare

May 3, 2023 Katharine Castle

Artwork from The Walking Dead, Dishonored and Mass Effect 3 make up the header image for the RPS Time Capsule 2012 edition.

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RPS Time Capsule: the games worth saving from 2012

We list our favourite games from 2012, and why they deserve to be preserved above everything else

March 17, 2023 Katharine Castle

Artwork for XCOM 2, Age Of Empires II and Starcraft II feature on the RPS Bestest Best Reader edition for favourite strategy games of all time

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These are your 50 favourite strategy games of all time

As voted for by the RPS readership

Feb. 23, 2023 Katharine Castle

The 9 best spaceships in PC games

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The 9 best spaceships in PC games

One Off The List

Oct. 2, 2020 Brendan Caldwell

Game composers and YouTubers are in a murky battle for copyright control

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Game composers and YouTubers are in a murky battle for copyright control

The food of love and/or content strikes

April 7, 2020 Omri Wallach

The greatest PC games of the 2010s

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The greatest PC games of the 2010s

The definitive and objective list

Dec. 6, 2019 RPS

RPS interviews Into The Breach's developer about hurting our feelings

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RPS interviews Into The Breach's developer about hurting our feelings

Hurting your feelings is good business.

April 15, 2018 Brock Wilbur

Buy Into The Breach, get free FTL... On Steam, too

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Buy Into The Breach, get free FTL... On Steam, too

Fire at Will

March 2, 2018 Dominic Tarason

Buy Into The Breach, get free FTL

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Buy Into The Breach, get free FTL

Cheaper than both

Feb. 28, 2018 Alec Meer

Wot I Think: Into The Breach

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Wot I Think: Into The Breach

A near-perfect turn-based sci-fi strategy game

Feb. 27, 2018 Alec Meer

FTL-like Abandon Ship hasn't found its sea legs yet

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FTL-like Abandon Ship hasn't found its sea legs yet

Trawler of Cthulhu

Feb. 21, 2018 Alec Meer

FTL follow-up Into The Breach is finally out this month

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FTL follow-up Into The Breach is finally out this month

At laaaaast

Feb. 7, 2018 Alec Meer

What Works And Why: Emergence

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What Works And Why: Emergence

Gunpoint's designer analyses games

Jan. 30, 2018 Tom Francis

Getting Over It, Night In The Woods, Baba Is You & Into The Breach lead IGF 2018 finalists

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Getting Over It, Night In The Woods, Baba Is You & Into The Breach lead IGF 2018 finalists

Heat Sig and West of Loathing too

Jan. 3, 2018 Alec Meer

Into The Breach: a diary of doom

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Into The Breach: a diary of doom

How to lose a planet in 20 turns

Dec. 1, 2017 Alec Meer

Kaiju & mechs clash in ace FTL follow-up Into the Breach

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Kaiju & mechs clash in ace FTL follow-up Into the Breach

Kaiju chess

Nov. 27, 2017 RPS

Podcast: Into The Breach, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds and "running away"

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Podcast: Into The Breach, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds and "running away"

Listen while running

Nov. 23, 2017 Brendan Caldwell

Into The Breach: FTL follow-up is smart, tense and surprising

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Into The Breach: FTL follow-up is smart, tense and surprising

Monstrously clever

March 1, 2017 Adam Smith

FTL devs announce tactical kaiju battler Into The Breach

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FTL devs announce tactical kaiju battler Into The Breach

Turn-based tactical monster killer

Feb. 10, 2017 Adam Smith

Abandon Ship Looks Like FTL On The High Seas

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Abandon Ship Looks Like FTL On The High Seas

Get kraken

Nov. 3, 2016 Brendan Caldwell

Have You Played... FTL: Faster Than Light?

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Have You Played... FTL: Faster Than Light?

Tell your own scifi tales

Oct. 28, 2016 Graham Smith

Generation Next, Part 4: Procedural Generation's Future

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Generation Next, Part 4: Procedural Generation's Future

What we hope for

Sept. 16, 2016 Mark Johnson

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