Gratuitous Space Battles on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.

Gratuitous Space Battles is a strategy, auto battler and space game developed and published by Positech Games.
Released on November 16th 2009 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 843 reviews of which 607 were positive and 236 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.9 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP or Vista
  • Processor: 1.5 GHz processor
  • Memory: 1GB
  • Graphics: 3D Card with 128MB video memory
  • DirectX®: 9.0c
  • Hard Drive: 300 MB
  • Sound: Any
MacOS
  • OS: OS X version Leopard 10.5.8, Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or later.
  • Processor: Intel 1 Ghz
  • Memory: 512 MB
  • Graphics: 32MB video card
  • Hard Drive: 75 MB

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March 2025
Gratuitous Space Battles offers the peculiar pleasure of surrendering control while maintaining the illusion of strategy. It's chess where you arrange the pieces then watch them fight according to rules you don't fully understand. Brilliant for those who enjoy the planning more than the execution, disturbing for those who realize how much of life follows the same pattern.
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Sept. 2024
Solid, fun, a good time with low stakes. There's nothing to complain about here and plenty to like.
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July 2024
Oh, yes. Oversee Space battles, with a fleet you kitted out. Watch a learn from effects, damage, and combinations between defense and offensive modules. More speed, less armor. Missles or Beams. Shields? Reflective or rechargeble? Quantum, Plasma or blaster types? Theres a great selection of modules and ship shapes. Then times all that with the different races, with some specialise in different ways. Single battles or conquest maps. Swarms of fighters with short range pulse lasers may sometimes be the answer to get close in under shield of fleets of large cruisers. Plenty to play with and get good at what works. Should you wish, you can have a look at the Data files and tweak your own weapons, and name your own and makes some real lightsaber thick heat beams. I made Black cold beams that I named "Antimatter Void Beams!" Or my Swarm torpedoes, tiny slow torpedoes with fast turn rates that chase fighters around the map. You can even tweak ships hard points and add them to ships that you drew on photo shop/Gimp app. My Borg Cubes were created easy. You can really enjoy yourself here. Worth the time to look inside and push what the game can do.
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May 2024
Kinda like Totally Accurate Battle Simulator except it's space ships, 2D and came out a long time ago.
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Gratuitous Space Battles
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Developer
Positech Games
Publisher
Positech Games
Release 16 Nov 2009
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