I originally would watch my friends play this game and thought it looked super boring, with them pausing constantly throughout the entirety of each run. I played it for a bit myself to try it out and didn't really understand it well enough to continue it and have a good time.

Skip forward several years to a version of myself with card game experience, and specifically, a version of me that has played slay the spire. I try again to play this game because I really want to like it since my friends play it, and this time it clicked. I understood that pausing didn't make the game slow paced, it was so you could run a million calculations, figure out the best way to proceed with enemies on your ship, broken systems that need to be fixed, others that need to be manned, a ship firing at your while you fire at it...

It is... a lot. And I love that type of chaos! I wish some of the ships in this game were better, and a lot of stuff in the game feels kinda useless. Like you'll use it if it's all you have, but ditch it the moment you can, and that's really unfortunate. Overall fantastic game.

=Achievements=
Pretty much free. None of the achievements in the game are hard. Some may take their own dedicated runs, but even then you can kinda speedrun your way through and not actually worry about building something that can beat the final boss. If you beat every ship, you likely won't even have more than a few of these left.

За кажущейся на первый взгляд простотой, скрывается очень серьёзная игра, соединяющая в себе стратегию с точным управлением ресурсами, тактику с непростыми боями и рогалик с беспощадным рандомом. Во всех отношениях уникальный проект с бесконечной реиграбельностью. 10/10.
И хотя сегодня у меня почему-то слетел в игре практически весь прогресс (а были открыты все корабли почти во всех своих версиях), я не буду писать гневный отзыв, ведь FTL научил меня легче относиться к потерям, потому что здесь это всегда начало нового отличного приключения. Странно, что помимо начального крейсера остались три корабля типа Б. Скорее всего, косяк стимовского облака.

Fantastic little game! Simple to learn, difficult to master.