Of all the rogue games i have played lately this one is my favorite for quick gaming sessions. Games literaly last from a few minutes to 30min tops.

It has a hideous learning curve in the beginning which pretty much ensures this game will never be a big hit. (i really do recomed reading a few FAQs about what items do and how game mechanics works - learning combat for instance the long way is just plain stupid imho)

Try to do some exploration games first where you just try to stay alive and retire with a decent score. Once you learn the ropes go for larger maps and more combat. The feeling of beating fights that was plain impossible awhile ago is just really incredible.

If you occasionally have 5-10 minutes spare, give this game a chance. Although it is not as great as FTL, it can give you some fun.

You could call it a more casual and relaxed version of FTL; at most a game lasts about half an hours, and you'll find interesting components almost instantly. Winning or getting a good high score just doesn't matter all that much; the game is all about the journey, and it's perfect if you got a half hour to spare.

The game got a few hours worth of content, and since the developers made modding easy you can more than twice the value by trying out some of the mods, and many of them are both large and balanced. The game won't blow your mind but you'll have a good time.

At first glance, there are some superficial similarities between Weird Worlds and FTL; both are ship-based, roguelike games. But they are otherwise substantially different experiences. Weird Worlds presents the player with an open map and a fairly generous time limit to explore it in order to find upgrades and acrue wealth. This gives the game a very different feel to it compared to FTL, but it's not why I am giving this a thumbs down.

I gave this a couple of attempts, putting little more than half an hour into actually playing it before I decided I was done. The reason being that the choices the game offers lack any reasonable sense of transparency. Apart from hyperdrive upgrades, none of the other things you can augment your ship with includes numbers. Everything is descriptive rather than quantitative. This may well be a valid approach. The history of roguelikes is replete with games that thrive on obfuscation and player experimentation (e.g. "drink red potion? Y/N"). But I think it is terribly misplaced here. The combat system in the game is a little like Gratuitous Space Battles. It's a 2D map with ships on either side of the screen squaring off. The player can choose targets for each of their ships, or whether a ship holds off or retreats. The rest of the engagement is handled automatically. For me, this was instantly just a way too chaotic environment for me to learn the basic efficacy of a given ship upgrade or anything else for that matter. I am loathe to do too much comparing to FTL, as it just ends up sounding like I like that more than Weird Worlds. I do, but I also came to this looking for something different. With all that said, I have to say that what FTL does right is that it presents situations where it's possible to see what is going on step by step. While there might be a steep learning curve, and one neglected thing overwhelms you while you are busy learning about something else, there is still a constant sense that you are learning something all the time, even if you're losing horribly. Weird Worlds lacks that transparency. Whether you win or lose an encounter, it is really hard to know what helped or hindered the situation.

There may be a lot of depth to the game a couple of hours in that I will never see. But I am choosing to recommend against this game because it simply offered me little incentive to keep going far enough to learn of any hidden potential.

Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is a great indie game if you have just few free minutes, and you don't know what to play.
And trust me - even if it's very short - it's still a very addictive game. I wish to see in future similar game but with longer gameplay.