If you are a 22 year old and have had experience with tons of videogames from the point when you were just 3 years old, and even today if a particular game can make you rush to the computer to play it as soon as you woke up before doing anything else, just like as if you were an excited kid who saw their first videogame in their life ever, then that pretty much means that this game is most probably one hell of a game.
That was the case for me and FTL.

This game simply fullfills every space adventure fantasy you could ever have. Highly addictive and replay value is off the charts because of it's insane randomness. None of your previous journeys could be like the next one that you are about to begin. Or the opposite rather. Good subtle implication on how vast the space is.

It delivers the whole atmosphere pretty amazingly, the soundtrack is a masterpiece, one moment you are jumping from a relatively peaceful part of the space, and in the next moment you are suddenly in the middle of a fight with pirates, and the music takes it's pace, the ambient song which was relaxing a moment ago slightly alters itself, drums kick in and becomes perfectly suitable for the action paced new environment in absolute fluency.

The total randomness, mystery and ambiguity of space is there. You don't know what next jump will lead you to. Maybe death... maybe an opportunity to turn the tides of your fate. The intensity and responsibility of commandering a space explorer is there. You take life and death decisions in every moments. And with all the hype and intensity, you find yourself roleplaying and dramatizing the situations as the captain, and giving the anonymous characters in your ship a background without even realizing it. And even find yourself giving motivational speeches to your comrades after a very rough fight.

Every playthrough of this game can take between 2-3 hours depending on how experienced you are on this game. And you won't even want to pause when you started a run, trust me. And you won't want to stop playing another and another round until you beat your dastardly fate that comes at the end of each adventure. You will see the errors of your ways everytime you fail miserably, and you will find out how astonishingly satisfying it is when your new plan in your next playthrough actually works. All the better if you didn't get any online help. I gotta be serious, this game is hard, really hard at times. But mastering it is easy.

And don't try to be a badass and don't play it on normal if you are a newbie, beat it on easy first, noob! And always play it on the advanced mode, because you should rather get used to the new features.

If you are a 22 year old and have had experience with tons of videogames from the point when you were just 3 years old, and even today if a particular game can make you rush to the computer to play it as soon as you woke up before doing anything else, just like as if you were an excited kid who saw their first videogame in their life ever, then that pretty much means that this game is most probably one hell of a game. That was the case for me and FTL. This game simply fullfills every space adventure fantasy you could ever have. Highly addictive and replay value is off the charts because of it's insane randomness. None of your previous journeys could be like the next one that you are about to begin. Or the opposite rather. Good subtle implication on how vast the space is. It delivers the whole atmosphere pretty amazingly, the soundtrack is a masterpiece, one moment you are jumping from a relatively peaceful part of the space, and in the next moment you are suddenly in the middle of a fight with pirates, and the music takes it's pace, the ambient song which was relaxing a moment ago slightly alters itself, drums kick in and becomes perfectly suitable for the action paced new environment in absolute fluency. The total randomness, mystery and ambiguity of space is there. You don't know what next jump will lead you to. Maybe death... maybe an opportunity to turn the tides of your fate. The intensity and responsibility of commandering a space explorer is there. You take life and death decisions in every moments. And with all the hype and intensity, you find yourself roleplaying and dramatizing the situations as the captain, and giving the anonymous characters in your ship a background without even realizing it. And even find yourself giving motivational speeches to your comrades after a very rough fight. Every playthrough of this game can take between 2-3 hours depending on how experienced you are on this game. And you won't even want to pause when you started a run, trust me. And you won't want to stop playing another and another round until you beat your dastardly fate that comes at the end of each adventure. You will see the errors of your ways everytime you fail miserably, and you will find out how astonishingly satisfying it is when your new plan in your next playthrough actually works. All the better if you didn't get any online help. I gotta be serious, this game is hard, really hard at times. But mastering it is easy. And don't try to be a badass and don't play it on normal if you are a newbie, beat it on easy first, noob! And always play it on the advanced mode, because you should rather get used to the new features.