Anyone who’s a fan of Star Trek, Firefly, etc, and likes (or doesn’t mind) challenging games should play indie PC game FTL. It’s a really fun and well-designed pseudo-Roguelike about managing a small spaceship as it races through space fighting and exploring, and is only $10 on Steam or from http://www.ftlgame.com/ . I’ve seen several people describe FTL as “the game I didn’t know I always wanted”, and I felt the same.
It’s also good practice for risk and crisis management—there’s a lot of literal putting out of fires :).
Is that supposed to be good or bad? I liked Oregon Trail a bit as a child but I like this game far more. It doesn’t really seem like a good analogy to me either—both involve a journey, random encounters, and probable death of characters, but other than that the mechanics are completely different.
Anyone who’s a fan of Star Trek, Firefly, etc, and likes (or doesn’t mind) challenging games should play indie PC game FTL. It’s a really fun and well-designed pseudo-Roguelike about managing a small spaceship as it races through space fighting and exploring, and is only $10 on Steam or from http://www.ftlgame.com/ . I’ve seen several people describe FTL as “the game I didn’t know I always wanted”, and I felt the same.
It’s also good practice for risk and crisis management—there’s a lot of literal putting out of fires :).
a.k.a. “Oregon Trail… IN SPACE!”
Is that supposed to be good or bad? I liked Oregon Trail a bit as a child but I like this game far more. It doesn’t really seem like a good analogy to me either—both involve a journey, random encounters, and probable death of characters, but other than that the mechanics are completely different.
I think one could make a faithful recreation of Oregon Trail with more or less the gameplay of FTL. It’s the game Oregon Trail should have been.
I am now describing FTL as Oregon Trail meets Rogue meets Escape Velocity.
Thanks! I’m definitely looking forward to the LW 0x10c guild...