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.
Different crews.
Same universe.
A tougher opponent.
FTLMultiplayer
The AI never learned. Your opponent will. Ranked 1v1 FTL with no pause — real-time shield juggling, crew fights and weapon timing against a human captain who wants your hull just as badly.
Free forever. Requires FTL on Steam. Windows, macOS and Linux.
- Captains
- 0
- Matches played
- 0
- Avg. queue
- 0s
Ranked 1v1 Arena
Test your strategy. Climb the ranks.
RegionEurope West32 ms
- 500 Scrap StartON
- Mirrored StoreON
- No PauseON
- All Systems EnabledON
- Boarding EnabledON
Find Match
ESTIMATED QUEUE TIME 0:15 – 1:30
The core rule
The pause key does nothing.
FTL taught you to think in frozen time. Multiplayer takes that away. Everything you knew still applies — you just have to do it while someone else is doing it to you.
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.
What you get
Everything from FTL, aimed at a human
Same systems, same ships, same terrible luck with Rock cruisers. A ruleset built so the better captain wins.
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 hangar
Bring the ship you actually trust
Every unlocked layout is legal in ranked. Boarding builds, ion control, beam snipes — the meta is yours to break.
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
Ranked
Eight tiers. One ladder. No excuses.
Ten placement matches set your MMR. After that every win and every loss moves you. Seasons run twelve weeks and reset the top of the board.
Scrapper0+
Drifter900+
Mercenary1,200+
Engi1,500+
Mantis1,800+
Zoltan2,100+
Lanius2,400+
Flagship2,700+
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.
Questions
Before you download
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.