No pause. Ever.
FTL's pause button is gone. Vent the fire, reroute shields and fire the volley while your opponent is doing exactly the same. Every second you spend in a menu is a second they are shooting you.
Features
Same game. Someone else's hands on the other ship.
The client keeps FTL's systems intact and changes exactly one thing that matters: the opponent is a person, and they are not waiting for you.
Ranked 1v1 arena
Placement matches put you on the ladder, then MMR moves with every win. Nine tiers from Scrapper to Flagship, seasonal resets, and a regional leaderboard that resets the argument about who is actually best.
Mirrored economy
Both captains get the same scrap, the same store inventory and the same jump options. Nothing you lose is down to a bad sector roll — it is down to what you bought and when.
Crew combat that bites back
Board a human and they will vent the room, weld the door and meet you with a Mantis. Teleporter timing, oxygen management and door control all become real skills instead of AI puzzles.
Built for the clock
Deterministic lockstep simulation with rollback for input latency, regional servers and a visible ping meter before you ever press Find Match.
Spectate and review
Every ranked match is recorded. Scrub the replay, watch the power curves diverge and find the exact jump where it went wrong. Share the link, settle the argument.
The core rule
Real time, all the time
Single player
00:00Paused
You stop the universe, read every tooltip, queue four weapons on the exact room you want and unpause into a perfect turn. The AI waits politely. It has always waited.
Multiplayer
04:12Live
The hull breach is spreading, their boarding party is already in your medbay and the shield you were about to reroute just took an ion hit. Nobody is waiting. Decide now, or decide worse in four seconds.
Ranked
A ladder worth climbing
Eight tiers, four divisions each, seasonal resets and a regional board. MMR moves on every result once placements are done.
Scrapper0+
Drifter900+
Mercenary1,200+
Engi1,500+
Mantis1,800+
Zoltan2,100+
Lanius2,400+
Flagship2,700+
The hangar
Every layout is legal
Selected ship
Kestrel A
A reliable Federation design. Well-rounded and ready for a challenge.
- Hull
- 6 of 8
- Shields
- 4 of 8
- Weapons
- 3 of 4
- Crew
- 3 of 4
Getting started
Three steps to your first match
01
Own FTL on Steam
The client runs on top of your own installation. Sign in with Steam and we verify the licence — nothing is redistributed, nothing is cracked.
02
Install the client
One download for Windows, macOS or Linux. It sits beside FTL, leaves your save files alone and can be removed in a single click.
03
Queue up
Pick a region, pick a ship, press Find Match. Placement puts you on the ladder inside ten games.
The AI never learned.Your opponent will.
Download the client, sign in with Steam and take your first ranked match. Placement is ten games. The ladder is waiting.