FTL: Faster Than Light 2012

Is it still worth playing?

Subset Games' 2012 real time strategy game with pause, for Windows, macOS and Linux, in which you command a ship across eight procedurally generated sectors of about twenty beacons each. Your ship carries critical information to an allied fleet, with the rebel fleet advancing behind you as each jump burns fuel. On board you distribute power, assign crew and fire weapons, and damage can breach the hull, start fires or disable systems. Between fights, scrap buys fuel, missiles, weapons, upgrades and crew. There are eight crew species and ten ships, and a species' skills also change how text events turn out. Losing the ship or crew ends the run and deletes the save, and a run to the Rebel flagship in the final sector takes roughly one to two hours. Short runs and random generation still let you try a different mix of weapons, systems and crew every time today.