Skyland

Skyland is like FTL, but you have to build up your spaceship tile by tile. You have a floating island, which you need to populate with weapons, defenses, power reactors, and utility rooms. You get resources to build with by visiting locations on your map, which have combat encounters, quests, and events. Combat is a bit of a puzzle, as there are multiple weapon types that damage tiles differently and from different angles. For example, cannons shoot horizontally, and have to work through the enemy’s weapons and walls before you can take out their power, whereas missiles strike from above, circumventing vertical walls. Ion weapons can phase through most tiles, but they only damage certain types. The game has several features not advertised on the Steam page: - Challenge Mode, with several preset encounters to try. - Sandbox Mode, where you can build both island with no resource limits. - Endless Mode, self explanatory. - Flag Customization, with a canvas you can use to draw a flag for your island. - Achievements in game and Steam - Lore and bonus features through a collectible cartridge system (including fully playable checkers game, artwork, lore in the form of readable text fil…

FTL except to upgrade your ship you actually build it up on a grid, rather than just obtaining upgrades. the combat is slightly more in-depth because of weapons like the ballista(I think it was called the ballista) fires like artillery. also the 'vibes' are a lot better than FTL imo, the art and music are both really great and the little story it has feel very wholesome i feel like this is a criminally underplayed game for being basically a different (or even better)FTL and is FREE the only criticism I have is that i think the dev made it for some other controller and ported it here with poor controls (it says you can change them but i wasn't able to, but i only tried once because they aren't *that* bad)