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I still play FTL: Faster than Light [0]. It's a rogue like, so if you die, you die. You command a starship that you get to upgrade, crew and fight with. It's on
by tra3 4y ago
I still play FTL: Faster than Light [0]. It's a rogue like, so if you die, you die. You command a starship that you get to upgrade, crew and fight with. It's one of those "easy to pick up, hard to master" games. Released in 2012, still fun to play. You can play for a minute or for hours, the sound track is good. Wikipedia says game play is realtime [1], but you can pause the game, queue up a set of actions and watch them play out. So this is definitely not a reaction based game and therefore it's low stress/adrenaline...that is until you get a boarder teleporting in, and your oxygen levels are falling precipitously because you had to vent a bunch of compartments to stop a fire, and the oxygen generator has been down since the last fight.
Anyway, one of my favourite games. Recommended.
0: https://subsetgames.com/ftl.html https://subsetgames.com/ftl.html
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTL:_Faster_Than_Light https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTL:_Faster_Than_Light
- pandigital 4y agoSecond this. I’m 40 and have been gaming since the Atari 2600. FTL is among the greatest games ever created. Other suggestions for HN audience include Factorio (of course) and Civ games (Civ 5 with all the DLC is my favorite). Terrance Tao apparently enjoys Civ as well FWIW.
- abrookewood 4y agoYep, just adding my agreement. It's amazing that I still want to fire it up and play a few runs even years later. Incredibly well balanced and just enough variation to keep it interesting .