At a glance
FTL: Faster Than Light has a Mac version: Steam sells it for macOS. The Mac requirements list only Intel: on Apple Silicon Rosetta 2 runs it, and old Mac versions sometimes do not start on current macOS. Try it in Steam for Mac first.
FTL: Faster Than Light came out on Steam on 14 September 2012, made by Subset Games.
What your Mac needs
The Mac requirements list only Intel.
Minimum macOS in the Steam requirements: 10.6.
Steam requirements list at least 1 GB of memory for FTL: Faster Than Light.
Allow about 0.175 GB of disk space for the Mac version.
How to play
Open Steam for Mac and install FTL: Faster Than Light as usual.
If the Mac version will not start, you can install the Windows version through Uncork: download Uncork, sign in to Steam and install FTL: Faster Than Light from there (0.175 GB). We have not tested it ourselves.
The Windows version through Uncork needs a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer).
FTL: Faster Than Light uses OpenGL 2.0: Uncork renders it with its built-in graphics.