Games like FTL: Faster Than Light
If FTL: Faster Than Light is your kind of game, the closest matches are Corpoct, Heat Signature and Void War — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its emergent strategy, every choice matters and micromanagement depth. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →FTL: Faster Than Light is a space-themed strategy and simulation game developed and published by Subset Games, released in 2012 at a price of $9.99 USD. Players manage a spaceship and crew navigating a procedurally generated galaxy, balancing crew positioning, drone control, fire management, and power allocation across ship systems while encountering randomized events. Ship customization allows for varied approaches to each run. Players describe the experience as immersive and retro, with stressful and tense moments arising from real-time combat with pause mechanics. Reviewers highlight the emergent strategy and micromanagement depth, with players noting how every choice can meaningfully affect a run and finding the challenging yet rewarding nature of runs compelling. Playable on Steam Deck, the game holds a 96% positive rating from over 46,000 Steam reviews and an 84 Metacritic score.
About FTL: Faster Than Light: 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.
Players who liked FTL: Faster Than Light also play
Steam players who put hours into FTL: Faster Than Light also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Corpoct
WHY THIS
Top pick for FTL: Faster Than Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Test your wits as well as your ability to lead an expedition in this deep space dungeon-crawler. Hire the best heroes and villains of the galaxy. Find unknown planets in uncharted space. Start small, plan big and get a fleet of warships capable enough to rival most fearsome enemies.
Heat Signature
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for FTL: Faster Than Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
Void War
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization and an immersive mood with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Third-strongest match for FTL: Faster Than Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.
Crying Suns
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization and an immersive mood with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Ranked #4 for FTL: Faster Than Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Crying Suns is a tactical rogue-lite that puts you in the role of a space fleet commander as you explore a mysteriously fallen empire. In this story rich experience inspired by Dune and Foundation, each successful run will uncover the truth about the Empire... and yourself as well.
Escape The Living Nebula
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for FTL: Faster Than Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Turn-based spaceship battles in a tense fight for survival
Solar Rogue
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for FTL: Faster Than Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
A space exploration adventure in the purest tradition of roguelike. Featuring procedurally generated solar systems, perma-death and tactical turned-based gameplay!
Trigon: Space Story
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Ranked #7 for FTL: Faster Than Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Trigon: Space Story sees you take command of your very own spaceship. Carry out tactical battles, defend your vessel against space pirates, and escape from enemy territory. On your voyages, you’ll face a slew of tricky decisions in your quest to uncover the mystery of the galaxy.
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization and a tense mood with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Ranked #8 for FTL: Faster Than Light fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
In Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, take command of a fleet escaping the annihilation of the Twelve Colonies. Manage crises on board as you prepare for the next encounter with the Cylon Fleet. Times are dire, and hard choices must be made. Your only hope: rejoin the Battlestar Galactica.
Reviewers mention these as similar to FTL: Faster Than Light
Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.
Dungeons of Dredmor
WHY THIS
Reviewers of FTL: Faster Than Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Test your luck and cunning in this exciting RPG as you craft, cast, and pillage your way through Lord Dredmor's Dungeons.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Reviewers of FTL: Faster Than Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Reviewers of FTL: Faster Than Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is a hybrid roguelike game of space exploration, adventure and starship combat.
Prison Architect
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Reviewers of FTL: Faster Than Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Reviewers of FTL: Faster Than Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Star Command (1988)
WHY THIS
Reviewers of FTL: Faster Than Light cross-mention this title as a similar play.
STAR COMMAND offers the thrill of the best sci-fi novels, and then some. In this epic multiple-character role-playing game, you don't just read about the adventure — you live it!
Titanfall - The Final Hours
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Reviewers of FTL: Faster Than Light cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Written over the past four years, journalist Geoff Keighley ("The Final Hours of Portal 2") chronicles the making of TITANFALL from Respawn Entertainment. This longform app features never-before-seen photos, video and concept art from early development versions of the game.
Into the Breach
WHY THIS
Reviewers of FTL: Faster Than Light cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below FTL: Faster Than Light at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under FTL: Faster Than Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under FTL: Faster Than Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under FTL: Faster Than Light on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under FTL: Faster Than Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under FTL: Faster Than Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under FTL: Faster Than Light on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under FTL: Faster Than Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under FTL: Faster Than Light on Steam right now. Shares Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with FTL: Faster Than Light.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with FTL: Faster Than Light.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with FTL: Faster Than Light.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Frequently asked about FTL: Faster Than Light
- Does FTL: Faster Than Light run on Steam Deck?
- FTL: Faster Than Light is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does FTL: Faster Than Light cost?
- FTL: Faster Than Light is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to FTL: Faster Than Light?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside FTL: Faster Than Light are Corpoct, Heat Signature, Void War.
- Who developed FTL: Faster Than Light?
- FTL: Faster Than Light was developed by Subset Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on FTL: Faster Than Light.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.