Terrible balance – FTL: Faster Than Light Review

The game constantly punishes the player. You buy weapons and they get disabled. You buy shields and they get bypassed. You don't have enough points to have a balanced ship but the enemy has such random combinations of weapons and upgrades that every third ship is a perfect counter and you get brutally punished. The game is unreasonably difficult. Even on easy it is too difficult. I absolutely despise this game after playing it through once. I like the idea of it but after a few minutes it just beats you in the face with how terribly it is balanced. A waste of money. Until the developers gather better analytics on the player experience and use those to better adjust combat and upgrade balance you should look to several strong competitors in the genre to spend your money.
Review by ZomgHngrGmzFanFoLife! on FTL: Faster Than Light.