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I am not a hardcore game player but I enjoy non-graphics-heavy games, and I loved FTL.

It's hard but not frustrating, varied, and short enough to play while waiting for something :)

Runs fine on Mac too!

That's one of the reasons I like it as well, it plays like a board game. You usually start a fresh game, play it to finality, and that's it. Done for the night. Most games are egging you on to play over and over, longer and longer, but FTL is satiating in one game.

I got into board games lately and played quite a bit of On Mars. I wish there was a similar game but more focus on building and upgrading your spaceship.

Do you get FPS drops in asteroid encounters too? I played the game ten years ago on my old 2012 MBP and it ran great. Now running on my 2017 The game slows to a crawl in astroid fights. I'm not sure if it's an issue with the game version, my MacOS version, or something else entirely.

I did not notice it on my 2019 MBP.

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