Void War

This game is fantastic. Yes, the FTL influence is obvious, and the lore has some things in common with WH 40k but with some important differences. Unlike both FTL and Warhammer 40k, there's no aliens in Void war. This avoids some of the goofy tone of orks or mantis, and as you're not part of the Imperium-equivalent, you're not in the propaganda bubble of 40k space marines. What remains is a more consistent and grounded grimdark tone to the game which I appreciate. Like FTL, there is a large variety of ships that support different strategies, but unlike FTL you get to choose a commander (who must survive) to either double down on that strategy or cover the weaknesses that the ship has, as well as all of your crew having equip slots to further the tactical depth. Normal difficulty is basically the tutorial (and reasonably challenging) but there are 12 more difficult settings than normal which unlock as you beat them (so you beat normal to unlock torment 1, beating torment 1 unlocks torment 2, etc). Starting with torment 1, you get significantly more options in shops which further expands your tactical options. Also, unlike FTL there are 3 different end bosses which provide variety and minibosses which are both difficult and rewarding. The biggest negatives I can say is that some commanders without innate boarding abilities are much weaker on ships that don't provide boarding options from the start, and the strategies that are viable for Torment 12 are far narrower than what you can do at lower difficulties where you can reasonably win with any ship/commander combo. Void War is updated frequently and very much worth your time.

Военный космический корабль Геноцидер 747 терпит крушение в пустоте космоса в течение 325 перелётов. Экипаж лайнера отважно борется за спасение своих жизней. Действующие лица: не унывающий и мужественный капитан, изобретательный и находчевый техножрец Амасек-7-7, симпатичная и невозмутимая ассасинша, хладнокровный и обаятельный связист Радарус, а также несравненная Мисс Мурпулус в роли Мисс Бурпулус в игре Void War.

Please Games workshop, just give these guys a million dollars for the game or something instead of taking it down. This is straight gas. FTL expanded. Very well done, really like that they went for ground combat too. The Demo of this game is essentially a full game by itself. These devs are pretty generous in the amount of Demo content I would say.

This game is outstanding, its just FTL with a 40k skin and because of that its perfect... Literally perfect, I am really enjoying it as I have with FTL! There are new features, weapons and enemies but all in all its a very polished and clean experience. The roadmap is awesome as well, the updates have been regular and the communications from the devs has been spot on. Thank you so much Tundra, I love this game!

Basically a reskin of FTL with a couple of relatively minor system changes. Boring after a few playthroughs, but it made me decide to redownload FTL Multiverse, which is a much better game despite being a fanmade mod. For charging 20 dollars, I'd hope that they would've done some of their own work instead of mostly just borrowing content from FTL and putting a new coat of paint on it. If you're hungry for a spiritual successor to FTL with greatly expanded lore, mechanics, and progression, it already exists. I highly recommend Multiverse, it does a much better job expanding the FTL formula than Void War ever will. Plus it's free!

I can almost believe Subset Games made an FTL sequel and was funded by Games Workshop.

Short version : It's FTL if it was set in 40K. I'll recommend the game because it's good. It does everything well (I love the boarding mechanic and I think it's better than FTL's) but please for the LOVE OF GOD change the final battle. During the entire ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game you are rewarded for boarding and killing the enemy crew and in the final battle you get punished for doing so. I'm not saying to make it super easy to board but come on. We get taught that the best way to win is to board. e get extra loot for doing so. We get to customise our soldiers to make them at boarding. And when we actually need to board and use all that extra loot and equipement the rules changes and suddenly boarding doesn't do ♥♥♥♥ and killing the enemy crew doesn't give us any thing (the ship self repairs and fonctions at full capacity) If you don't want us to cheese the fight by boarding (wi=hich I understand) make it that every new phase stronger enemy spawn rather than just say "♥♥♥♥ you no oxygen and automated ship) If you want to keep the no oxygen aspect then make the ship have a debuff because there's no crew to man it or even better as I said before let us board it and make the enemy stronger every new phase. Because the problem is that for a game that gives us that much customisation the only way for us to win is to play the "boring" way and have a fully upgraded shield and weapons to play an FTL fight. You have a wonderful boarding system LET US USE IT.

This game gets a thumbs down purely because of the asking price. It is NOT worth $19.99. It is a simplified version of FTL that has a Warhammer 40K skin slapped on it. Is it fun? Oh absolutely. Is it infuriating just like FTL? Oh absolutely. Is it worth $19.99? Oh hell no.

It's a game which comes across as challenging fun and I've put a fair amount of hours into it. However progress is none existent with a player missing out on much of what the game offers in weapons, power ups and set up's unless they wish to play on maximum difficulty levels. Starting from the bottom it is nigh on impossible to level up what ships are available to you to select for your next run as nothing bar a couple of ships from the next level unlocks. Same with weapons, powers and starting crew. Then you have the demonic ships / final bosses which require a particular set up to beat, so no variation in tactics if you havent been able to find these weapons / crew during the run. So you get killed off eager to start again, to find that effort has only slowly ticked towards unlocking something. Yes you can refer to cheat codes and cheat engines to fix the games issues with difficulty / progress but whats the point in that, only to see what lies further. So, after initially being impressed at so much the devs have done right, at its heart the game structure / progress / difficulty levelling is broken.