Games like FTL: Faster Than Light

3.9average player rating•5 games

FTL’s pull is crisis command: pausable ship combat, subsystem triage, and run-killing choices with scrap, fuel, and oxygen always tight. These picks keep the node-hopping, permadeath pressure and pause-to-allocate rhythm, each twisting it their own way.

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Games5

Avg. Metacritic75

Avg. player rating3.9/5

Main genreIndie

Released2015–2019

What these games share

The genres these 5 picks have in common, straight from their store data.

Indie5 of 5
Strategy4 of 5
Action3 of 5
Adventure3 of 5
RPG2 of 5

The picks

Ranked by player rating, Metacritic breaks ties.

1
Crying Suns
IndieStrategy
Event-driven sector travel with scarce fuel, tough captain calls, and real-time-with-pause fleet duels that punish misallocation.
4.3/5Player ratingMC75View game
2
Convoy
ActionAdventureIndie
Node-based desert trek with permadeath, text events, and real-time-with-pause convoy battles over escorting a fragile flagship.
3.9/5Player ratingMC72View game
3
EVERSPACE
ActionIndie
Run-based spaceflight where resources, upgrades, and route risks stack until one bad jump ends the attempt.
3.9/5Player ratingMC79View game
4
Shortest Trip to Earth
ActionAdventureIndie
Pausable ship-to-ship battles with subsystem targeting, fires, boarding, and brutal permadeath across a node-hopping trek.
3.8/5Player ratingView game
5
Out There: Ω Edition
AdventureIndieRPG
Star-by-star survival with finite fuel, random distress events, and hard choices that strand you if you overreach.
3.8/5Player ratingView game