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FTL: Faster Than Light
FTL: Faster Than Light leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos). Below: catalogued games with the closest cheat-test profile, and exactly where each one differs.
Matched first against: Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Strategy - then ranked by cheat-test profile.
4 games like FTL: Faster Than Light
A cross-genre tag below means that pick didn't share a genre - it filled a slot on cheat-test profile alone.

Both lean on execution about the same (2 vs 2). Biggest difference: variance (7 vs 6) - Loot RNG and random maps drive the grind
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Both lean on reads about the same (0 vs 0). Biggest difference: execution (2 vs 1) - Drag-and-click cards; no mechanical demand at all.
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Both lean on variance about the same (7 vs 7). Biggest difference: execution (2 vs 1) - Pausable, no input precision required.
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Both lean on execution about the same (2 vs 2). Biggest difference: variance (7 vs 6) - Hidden evolution requirements and care mistakes dominate early play
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- Released
- 2012
- Developer
- Subset Games
- Platforms
- Linux, PC, iOS, Mac
- Modes
- Single player
- IGDB critics
- 89/100
- IGDB users
- 84/100