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287 games like FTL: Faster Than Light

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01 Duskers Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, PC

Duskers

65%

In Duskers you pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard. You are a drone operator, surrounded by old gritty tech that acts as your only eyes and ears to the outside world. W...

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FTL: Faster Than Light

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Combat-focused Game feel Roguelike Game feel
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02 Heat Signature Cover

2017 · PC

Heat Signature

60%

Fly your tiny defenceless pod up to larger ships, dock with their airlock, and sneak inside. Once you're in, you creep through their corridors, ambushing guards, hiding bodies, stealing new weapons, blowing them up from the inside, or hijacking their turrets a...

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FTL: Faster Than Light

60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Combat-focused Game feel Roguelike Game feel
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03 Rebel Galaxy Cover

2015 · Mac, PC, PS4

Rebel Galaxy

59%

Rebel Galaxy is an action-packed, swashbuckling space opera. You'll battle pirates, explore anomalies, befriend aliens, scavenge battle wreckage, mine asteroids, and discover artifacts. Choose your path as a roguish do-gooder, crafty space-trader or power-hung...

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FTL: Faster Than Light

59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel Role-playing Game feel
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04 Sword of the Stars: The Pit Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, PC

Sword of the Stars: The Pit

58%

A deadly plague ravages your world. Your last hope: a legendary alien facility dug deep into the Feldspar Mountains...a massive Pit, built by the ancient Suul'ka.

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FTL: Faster Than Light

58% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Challenging Game feel Roguelike Game feel Role-playing Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

05 Elite: Dangerous Cover

2014 · Mac, PC, PS4

Elite: Dangerous

55%

The next game in the Elite series - an amazing space epic with stunning visuals, incredible gameplay, breath-taking scope and award-winning sound. All content can be enjoyed in game any mode: solo, personal invite-only group or open/MMO. Carve your own path th...

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FTL: Faster Than Light

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Role-playing (RPG) Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Choices Game feel Combat-focused Game feel Role-playing Game feel
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06 Space Pirates and Zombies Cover

2011 · Linux, Mac, PC

Space Pirates and Zombies

55%

At its core, Space Pirates and Zombies is an action based, skill oriented, top down space combat game. It's similar to the ones we knew and loved in years past, but now using full physics simulation and modern graphics for those oh so pretty explosions. But as...

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FTL: Faster Than Light

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Strategy Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Role-playing Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

07 Gratuitous Space Battles Cover

2009 · Linux, Mac, PC

Gratuitous Space Battles

54%

Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.

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FTL: Faster Than Light

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective
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08 XCOM: Enemy Unknown Cover

2012 · Android, Linux, Mac

XCOM: Enemy Unknown

53%

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a turn-based tactics game with a strategic management layer, and a reimagining of the 1994 strategy title UFO: Enemy Unknown. Players lead a squad of soldiers through turn-based combat missions against alien forces, using cover, position...

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FTL: Faster Than Light

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Role-playing (RPG) Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Challenging Game feel Combat-focused Game feel
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09 Risk of Rain Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Risk of Rain

53%

Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or wit...

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FTL: Faster Than Light

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Challenging Game feel Combat-focused Game feel Roguelike Game feel Role-playing Game feel
Trade-offs

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10 Star Citizen Cover

2013 · PC

Star Citizen

52%

Star Citizen is a sandbox open-world MMO "SpaceSim" by Cloud Imperium Games. Explore the 'verse, fight, trade, and more when you play Star Citizen!

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FTL: Faster Than Light

52% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Simulator Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel Role-playing Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

11 XCOM 2 Cover

2016 · Linux, Mac, Switch

XCOM 2

49%

XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.

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FTL: Faster Than Light

49% Mutiger Treffer
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Role-playing (RPG) Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Challenging Game feel Role-playing Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

12 Transistor Cover

2014 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Transistor

48%

Transistor is an action role-playing game presented from an isometric perspective. Players control Red, a singer in the city of Cloudbank, as she wields a greatsword-like weapon called the Transistor against robotic enemies known as the Process. Combat can be...

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FTL: Faster Than Light

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Strategy Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Combat-focused Game feel Role-playing Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 Sid Meier's Civilization V Cover

2010 · Linux, Mac, PC

Sid Meier's Civilization V

46%

Sid Meier's Civilization V is a turn-based strategy game in which players lead a civilization from the ancient era through the future. Players found cities, research technologies, build improvements, train military units, and engage in diplomacy with AI or hum...

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FTL: Faster Than Light

46% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Challenging Game feel Role-playing Game feel
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14 Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game Cover
46%

The Vault Dweller is tasked with exploring post-nuclear California in order to retrieve a water chip to replace the broken chip of Vault 13, their home, which they are the first person to ever leave. The player will engage in Western RPG character building and...

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FTL: Faster Than Light

46% Mutiger Treffer
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Role-playing (RPG) Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Choices Game feel Combat-focused Game feel Role-playing Game feel
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15 Sunless Sea Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, PC

Sunless Sea

45%

Play as the captain of a steamship on an underwater ocean surrounding the fictional city of Fallen London. Manage your ship's fuel and food supplies as you try not to go mad fighting off Lovecraftian monsters.

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FTL: Faster Than Light

45% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Strategy Genre Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Combat-focused Game feel Role-playing Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 Fallout 2 Cover

1998 · Mac, PC

Fallout 2

44%

A turn-based tactical Western RPG in which the Chosen One is tasked with exploring post-nuclear California to locate and retrieve the fabled Garden of Eden Creation Kit for their famine-stricken tribe, while coming into contact through branching dialogue trees...

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FTL: Faster Than Light

44% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Role-playing (RPG) Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Choices Game feel Combat-focused Game feel Role-playing Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

17 The Binding of Isaac Cover

2011 · Mac, PC

The Binding of Isaac

44%

The Binding of Isaac is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy rogue-like elements. Following Isaac on his journey players will find bizarre treasures that change Isaac's form giving him super human abilities and enabling him to fight off droves of...

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FTL: Faster Than Light

44% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Choices Game feel Challenging Game feel Combat-focused Game feel Roguelike Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

18 Spore Cover

2008 · Mac, PC

Spore

44%

From Single Cell to Galactic God, evolve your creature in a universe of your own creations. Play through Spore's five evolutionary stages: Cell, Creature, Tribe, Civilization, and Space. Each stage has its own unique style, challenges, and goals.

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FTL: Faster Than Light

44% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Role-playing (RPG) Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Role-playing Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

19 Final Fantasy VII Cover

1997 · PS1, PS3, PSP

Final Fantasy VII

43%

The Western release of Final Fantasy VII (released as Final Fantasy VII International in Japan) included additional elements and alterations, such as streamlining of the menu and Materia system, reducing the health of enemies, new visual cues to help with navi...

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FTL: Faster Than Light

43% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Role-playing (RPG) Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Choices Game feel Combat-focused Game feel Role-playing Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

20 Terraria Cover

2011 · Android, Stadia, Linux

Terraria

43%

Terraria is a 2D sandbox action-adventure game with platforming and role-playing elements. Players create a character and are placed in a procedurally generated world where they mine resources, craft equipment, build structures, and fight enemies. Progression...

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FTL: Faster Than Light

43% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Role-playing (RPG) Genre Simulator Genre Strategy Genre Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Role-playing Game feel
Trade-offs

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