So I finally played FTL: The Tutorial & My Expectations

Faster Than Light Is a game that keeps getting recommended to me by various people. I wanted to try it for a while, so I was excited when it was given for free on Epic Store. I wanted to try it sooner, but I kept procrastinating for some reason.

^ Typical game view! ^

Now, I finally tried the game. Well, I just played the tutorial so I can't give a fair comment yet, but while FTL was as complex as I expected, the experience wasn't as I thought will be.

I saw screenshots from the game often, but from these screenshots I thought that the space ship and the rooms inside it were shown in a customization screen between the main parts of the gameplay. Turns out that they were actually the main part of the game!

Systems of the ship, view

In FTL you have to manage a ship and its crew while traveling along th galaxy to warn the federation fleet of the upcoming .

One notable moment I found funny as I played, was once the flame started in one of my spaceship rooms. The tutorial box told me to open the engine room's windows to drain the oxygen and stop the fire. I understood it as "bring the ships crew to the room to stop the fire." I got confused when it didn't work.

It turned out I had to click on the window and it'll open on its own. But, I did so when my crew members were in the same room and they died by the lack of oxygen. Oops!

The surviving crew member.
Wish I took a screenshot of them burning!

Luckily, I managed to beat the tutorial with the one remaining crew member. I thought "Did the developers foresee that some people will kill their crew members by mistake?"

So, that's my story for today, hope you enjoyed it.

I decided to place FTL higher in my backlog. I will have to finish Final Fantasy IX (which I wrote about here.) I'll write more about FTL when I get to seriously play it. I hope you enjoyed this post.

Tell me what you think in comments!

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Images are screenshots of FTL's tutorial, taken by me.