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You never have enough resources to buy all the nice things. Traveling through nebulae slows the pursuing fleet down, but at great risk to your own ship. Distress beacons bring rewards or danger … usually both. Combat is a tricky balancing act of juggling power needs across your ship, fixing damage, and zeroing your attacks in on specific enemy systems. The game mixes strategy, skill progression, and exploration into a satisfying stew. Sometimes it’s those awful space spiders. Sometimes it’s an enemy ship, or a merchant, or a pirate hiding in an asteroid field. What you find as you move from system to system is completely randomized. Each new location you visit relates the next chapter in your own little space adventure.

You play by calling up the star map once your FTL drive is charged and choosing an adjacent system to travel to. Death comes frequently (and often without warning) in FTL as you travel from system to system, and sector to sector. That’s OK, since you’ll be starting plenty of new games. The only truly set quantity is the ship that you start with you can unlock multiple ships and variants over time, but you’ve got to stick to the one you start your game with. The simple-yet-stylish graphics and top-down perspective suggest more of a retro vibe, but there’s a whole lot of depth here. What is FTL? The game gives you God-like control over a Federation spaceship that’s charged with ferrying critical information across multiple sectors of space while the evil rebel fleet gives pursuit.

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There’s the game itself, which receives the new content on Mac, Linux, and Windows as a free update, and the Advanced-enhanced iPad version, which complements the newly updated game with exceptionally well-executed touch-based controls. Really, we’ve got two separate considerations here. On top of all the new stuff – which we’ll get to momentarily – there’s also the game’s first-time appearance as a non-PC game, with an iPad release. Subset Games’ 2012 indie darling returns in bigger and badder form with the new Advanced Edition.

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