FTL: Faster Than Light
BANGER · Roguelike · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 75% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$2.4975% offBANGER
- Cost per hour
- $0.83/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 79,106
- Critics
- 84 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Roguelike
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 12.1h
- To 100%
- 114.5h 9.5x the story
- Achievements
- 51
Price and sales
- Sales
- 83 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 September 2026
- Sale every
- 41d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 913 now
- Recent reviews
- 88% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 51% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 97% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
45% start to 3% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
83 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 6 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is better reviewed than 97 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, Trigon: Space Story ($3.99, scores 20) and Void War ($19.99, scores 80), are both worse buys on this math.
More about FTL: Faster Than Light
Critics scored it 84. Players sit 11 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 2,031 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 12.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 115, 9.5 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 6 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I played the cracked version of this way back before. Played lots of hours. Now that I got money, I bought this. Stuck in my library for a long time, now I'm playing it again. I like the pixel art, UI, ship designs, music, and the feeling of upgrading my ship.
2 more reviews
The best spaceship game I own. Its great for a quick ten minute game, as you will die in that time, or for a long session of high score chasing and trying out new ships and techniques. One of my all time favorites.
Lovely attention to detail and interesting systems to manage. Easy to understand yet hard to master
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 174 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
FTL: Faster Than Light scores 89/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/212680/ftl-faster-than-lightReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.