High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! FTL: Faster Than Light is a top down strategy game in which the player controls a spacecraft. FTL incorporates elements of roguelike games, and is described by creator Subset Games as a "spaceship simulation roguelike-like". In the game, the player controls a single space craft, attempting to deliver critical information to its allies across several sectors of space while avoiding rebel forces that seek the information for themselves and other hostile entities. As the player continues across the region of space, they gain equipment and currency to improve their ship`s offenses, defenses, and sub-systems, expand the ship`s capabilities, or additional crew members to boost the performance of the ship. Combat and repair is done in real-time, though the player can pause the game to assess the situation and issue orders; the game otherwise features permadeath scenarios, randomly generating new challenges each time a new game is started.