Gratuitous Space Battles

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 841 reviews of which 608 were positive and 233 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.9 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Gratuitous Space Battles into these genres:

Strategy Auto Battler Space Top-Down Sci-fi Spaceships Sandbox Indie 2D Building Simulation Singleplayer Moddable Action RTS Difficult Multiplayer Tower Defense Tactical Physics

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

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

Reviews

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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.

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.

May 2024

Kinda like Totally Accurate Battle Simulator except it's space ships, 2D and came out a long time ago.

Feb. 2024

The title describes the game perfectly. If you want to be the commander of a fleet of space ships. This will scratch that itch. It's a decent game that I keep coming back to. Relaxing and exciting simultaneously. Definitely worth the price of admission.

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14.79€

6.9

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Developer

Positech Games

Publisher

Positech Games

Release 16 Nov 2009

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