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#61: FTL: Faster Than Light

This is the only roguelike on this list. This is partially because it's difficult to truly declare a roguelike 'finished', but despite the original Rogue being the first video game I ever played, it's not really my genre. There are a couple I've really enjoyed on consoles (spelunky is probably the best of the bunch), but this is the steam list!

Low story, low gameplay, high time investment is not a winning formula in my eyes. I get that slowly learning the RNG and relative importance of events, shop items, and resources can be rewarding to some, but it's not enough for me.

Anyway, this game is cool, and kind of fun in practice! You command your little star trek men to operate different parts of the ship, put out fires, and shoot lasers, and ultimately survive various space battles and complete choose-your-own-adventure decisions on planets until you die or defeat the final boss. The most interesting parts involve being able to seal off sections of the ship and empty them of oxygen, killing enemy combatants, putting out fires and allowing your robot or crystal crew to operate in peace.

But with most sim/low interactivity games, it's mild entertainment when you win and boring/frustrating when you lose. To me it felt like the quality of a run depended completely upon whether you were able to get your hands on the cloaking device and/or a good teleporter + assault squad.

If you enjoy roguelikes at all this is worth a play. After winning once, I could've played through while trying to unlock other ship designs and alien crews, but I decided it was enough for me.

The chiptune soundtrack is good, but not strong or diverse enough to qualify as one of my all time favorites
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