How many copies has FTL: Faster Than Light sold?

indielist estimates FTL: Faster Than Light has sold between 3,182,706 and 7,426,314 units (median 5,304,510), derived from its 62,406 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed FTL: Faster Than Light?

FTL: Faster Than Light was developed by Subset Games and published by Subset Games.

Who published FTL: Faster Than Light?

FTL: Faster Than Light was published by Subset Games, developed by Subset Games. See Subset Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was FTL: Faster Than Light released?

FTL: Faster Than Light was released in 2012.

How many reviews does FTL: Faster Than Light have on Steam?

FTL: Faster Than Light has 62,406 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.

Is FTL: Faster Than Light worth playing?

Steam players rate FTL: Faster Than Light 95% positive across 62,406 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

FTL: Faster Than Light

Sep 14, 2012 Indie $9.99

Developer Subset Games Publisher Subset Games

Profile updated May 2026

FTL: Faster Than Light is a 2012 indie simulation and strategy game. Players manage a spaceship crew on a critical mission. It has received 61,964 Steam reviews.

FTL: Faster Than Light is a 2012 Indie game developed by Subset Games and published by Subset Games. On Steam it has gathered 62,406 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Subset Games with publisher Subset Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 3.2 million to 7.4 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, FTL: Faster Than Light can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

62,406

Positive

95%

Steam appid

212680

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

1,157

Historical snapshot · 2026-06-08 18:45 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

3.2M to 7.4M

units (median: 5.3M)

≈ $18.2M to $42.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

3.2M median 7.4M

+ How is this calculated?

62,406 reviews × NB(85) = 5,304,510 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2012	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_95%	+10
final NB	85

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for FTL: Faster Than Light at roughly 3.2 million to 7.4 million copies, with a median around 5.3 million, derived from its 62,406 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $30.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

54 observed days · window low $2.49

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.49 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $2.49 on 2026-06-26.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

Where to buy

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has FTL: Faster Than Light sold?: indielist estimates FTL: Faster Than Light has sold between 3,182,706 and 7,426,314 units (median 5,304,510), derived from its 62,406 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed FTL: Faster Than Light?: FTL: Faster Than Light was developed by Subset Games and published by Subset Games.
Who published FTL: Faster Than Light?: FTL: Faster Than Light was published by Subset Games, developed by Subset Games. See Subset Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was FTL: Faster Than Light released?: FTL: Faster Than Light was released in 2012.
How many reviews does FTL: Faster Than Light have on Steam?: FTL: Faster Than Light has 62,406 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Is FTL: Faster Than Light worth playing?: Steam players rate FTL: Faster Than Light 95% positive across 62,406 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like FTL: Faster Than Light can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Dungeon of the ENDLESS™, Oxygen Not Included, The Binding of Isaac, Kerbal Space Program, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Subset Games's other releases and Subset Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where FTL: Faster Than Light sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same FTL: Faster Than Light page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.