10 Video Games With Totally Unique Combat
9. FTL: Faster Than Light
Over the years, many sci-fi games have tried to make you feel like the commander of a space ship. Star Trek: Bridge Crew even let you and some friends don VR headsets, then view each other's digital selves in real time, operating various levers, switches and pieces of software to fight off enemies.
Best of the bunch though, is FTL, Subset Games deeply tactical ship combat game where all the functions of your ship - from shields to opening doors and fighting intruders - are separate key bindings away.
Get the control scheme down and depending on how you've designed your vessel, encounters see you sending out attack drones, moving crewmates to put out fires after incoming blasts, firing off a missile or targeting your enemy's oxygen systems to cripple them from within.
Such an addictive, multifaceted approach is the perfect accompaniment to a game where you're exploring a randomly generated set of encounters anyway, making FTL super addictive, and occasionally brutally hard.