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Games like FTL: Faster Than Light

What to play if you like FTL: Faster Than Light

Start with Darkest Dungeon®, Inscryption, Mewgenics. These games share the strongest Game DNA signals with FTL: Faster Than Light, then show where the experience changes.

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These are anonymous game-to-game comparisons, not personal recommendations or player-behaviour claims.

Darkest Dungeon® cover75% shared experience

Darkest Dungeon®

Preserves: Strategic depth and Complexity

Changes: Progression

Inscryption cover68% shared experience

Inscryption

Preserves: Strategic depth and Replayability

Changes: Punishment for failure

Mewgenics cover67% shared experience

Mewgenics

Preserves: Strategic depth and Complexity

Changes: Progression and Punishment for failure

Dispatch cover63% shared experience

Dispatch

Preserves: Strategic depth and Complexity

Frostpunk cover63% shared experience

Frostpunk

Preserves: Strategic depth and Complexity

Changes: Replayability

The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome cover62% shared experience

The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome

Preserves: Complexity and Strategic depth

Changes: Build crafting depth and Progression

Balatro cover62% shared experience

Balatro

Preserves: Strategic depth and Complexity

Changes: Punishment for failure

One-armed robber cover61% shared experience

One-armed robber

Preserves: Strategic depth and Resource management

Changes: Co-op dependency

Jurassic World Evolution cover61% shared experience

Jurassic World Evolution

Preserves: Strategic depth and Complexity

Schedule I cover61% shared experience

Schedule I

Preserves: Strategic depth and Resource management

Changes: Co-op dependency

SPORE™ cover60% shared experience

SPORE™

Preserves: Complexity and Strategic depth

Changes: Progression

Prison Architect cover60% shared experience

Prison Architect

Preserves: Strategic depth and Complexity

Changes: Build crafting depth and Replayability

Cookie Clicker cover60% shared experience

Cookie Clicker

Preserves: Strategic depth and Resource management

Changes: Build crafting depth and Replayability

RimWorld cover59% shared experience

RimWorld

Preserves: Strategic depth and Complexity

Changes: Build crafting depth and Replayability

Kenshi cover58% shared experience

Kenshi

Preserves: Complexity and Strategic depth

Changes: Build crafting depth and Progression

XCOM® 2 cover58% shared experience

XCOM® 2

Preserves: Strategic depth and Complexity

Changes: Build crafting depth

Crusader Kings II cover57% shared experience

Crusader Kings II

Preserves: Strategic depth and Complexity

Changes: Progression

Sid Meier's Civilization® V cover56% shared experience

Sid Meier's Civilization® V

Preserves: Strategic depth and Combat intensity

Changes: Replayability

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