FTL: Faster Than Light

Its not meant to be easy to beat. Out of about 8-10 games, I've only managed to beat it once. Hence their description of 'Rogue-like'.

Try playing on Easy a few times if you're having trouble. It's a pretty difficult game until you get the hang of it and a lot depends on random luck, so if you begin on Easy to finish the game and unlock some ships it'll be a lot less frustrating, and you will learn things that will be useful to know on Normal.

It was second on the top seller list on release day, behind only Borderlands II. I think it got plenty of attention :P

I like this plan, I think I'll try your way.

+1

Because why waste money on something you can win at a usually less than 1% chance??

There is a pattern indeed, but the game is hard to master, so even if you know some repetitive parts, in the great scheme of things you still have a lot of thinking to do in order to reach the last sector and still be able to overcome the last challenge.

There's rumbling in the FTL forums about maybe allowing free roam after beating the mothership. It was originally intended to be that way, but for some reason they disabled it during alpha. :/

you can disable the rebels if you'd like, just google: "FTL no rebels" or something like that and you should be able to download a modified data file :)

Kill all ze buffaloes!

Desinthery is the least of your troubles in space

It is in its own bundle. DRM-less and Steam key included.

Same, too big of a backlog to need any game on launch; and almost all indies go to bundles later anyways.

Or the RNG. Getting by with starter gear and finally getting a store that sells a weapon at sector 7. The boss is rather simple when you know what to do and have decent weapons.

The final mothership boss is pretty easy if you're well-prepared. The most important things to have (in my opinion) are:

upgraded shields, so you don't die too quickly
upgraded engines, to max your evasion chances
upgraded blast doors and sensors to at least level 2
an upgraded teleporter plus a trained boarding team of Mantis and/or Rock crew (a boarding drone helps as well)
weapons and/or drones capable of bringing down the mothership's shields (whether it's burst lasers to blow them away, ion weapons to shut them down, missiles or bombs to bypass them entirely, or any combination)

Once you have that, you can send your boarders to disable the mothership's weapons (the third weapon bay from the left is the triple missile launcher, which you will want to take out first ALWAYS). The mothership doesn't have doors to its weapon bays so it can't send crew to repair them - once you take them down they're down for the entire fight. When the mothership starts sending boarders your way, your own trained boarding team can act as a defense. Use your regular weapons to blow their shields to pieces and keep firing once their down to destroy the hull. If you have a stealth upgrade you can use that to dodge the enemy superweapons, just by going invisible just before it hits, but if you have good shields and a lot of evasion it's not necessary.

IMO the hardest part is getting to the boss with all the stuff you need to beat it, but once you get there it's pretty straight forward.

it´s like a mini star trek simulator, but everyone is wearing red shirts

The events you get depend a lot of the kind of sector you're in. For example a Rock homeworld sector gives different events than a rebel occupied sector or an uncharted nebula sector.

But you're right, the game does get repetitive after a while. I'd love to see a game with similar gameplay mechanics, but a much wider scope and more freedom.