Epic Games is offering popular 2D spaceship platformer Faster Than Light (FTL) for free for today only. Image via Epic Games.
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Faster Than Light is available for free on the Epic Games store

For today only, as part of its 12 Days of Free Games holiday giveaway, Epic Games is offering users a free copy of Faster Than Light (FTL), a 2D pixel-art top-down platformer that lets players take control of a spaceship and its squad, escaping a universal threat while battling enemy ships and invasions.

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Fri Dec 27 - TechRadar

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