GAME PROFILE

FTL: Faster Than Light

A pausable spaceship-management strategy game with randomized encounters, permanent run failure and included Advanced Edition content.

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THE OVERVIEW

About FTL: Faster Than Light

FTL: Faster Than Light asks players to manage a spaceship and its crew during a journey through a randomly generated galaxy. Combat involves allocating power, directing crew members and choosing enemy systems to target, with a pause function for issuing orders. Text encounters and ship upgrades create decisions between battles, and losing a ship ends that attempt. The included Advanced Edition content adds ships, weapons, events and an alien race without a separate expansion purchase. It suits players interested in ship management and repeated strategic runs; its published graphics notes explicitly stop short of supporting every integrated Intel GPU.

BEFORE YOU PLAY

System requirements

Published specifications are recorded by platform and edition. They do not guarantee compatibility, frame rates or performance on your PC.

Linux · Base game

minimum

Operating system: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, fully updated
Processor: 2 GHz
Memory: 1GB RAM
Graphics: 1280x720 minimum resolution, OpenGL 2.0 Support
Graphics API: OpenGL 2.0
Storage: 175 MB HD space

No recommended Linux profile is published; do not infer support for an arbitrary modern distribution.

Checked Oct 23, 2026

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Windows · Base game

minimum

Operating system: Windows XP / Vista / 7
Processor: 2 GHz
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: 1280x720 minimum resolution, OpenGL 2.0 Support, and recommended dedicated graphics card with 128 MB of RAM
Graphics API: OpenGL 2.0
Storage: 175 MB HD space

The store lists legacy Windows versions, but Steam states its client requires Windows 10 or later. These are published requirements, not measured performance or a compatibility guarantee. Some integrated Intel HD graphics cards have been known to work but are not officially supported.

Checked Oct 23, 2026

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Research sources

FTL: Faster Than Light official Steam product

Read the current product HTML, About This Game, named base-game purchase, attribution, release date and desktop platform tabs. Developer: Subset Games; publisher: Subset Games; release: 2012-09-14. Windows and Linux requirements were transcribed independently; macOS is listed as a store platform but its requirements were not evaluated. Steam robots permits these public product paths; no account, age gate or blocked access was bypassed. Original editorial copy focuses on gameplay, edition distinctions and published requirement limits.

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FTL: Faster Than Light Steam base-game listing

The US storefront shows the named base game at USD 9.99. Soundtracks and multi-product bundles are separate purchase blocks. No checkout or redemption was attempted.

Checked Oct 23, 2026

FTL: Faster Than Light Windows and Linux system requirements

Read the Windows and Linux requirement tables separately. Preserve their exact OS, CPU, RAM, graphics, API and storage wording; missing fields remain null. Steam client Windows 10 warning is separate from legacy game OS requirements. No FPS or machine compatibility is promised.

Checked Oct 23, 2026

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