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…
Gratuitous Space Battles is an indie developed by Positech Games, released 16 November 2009 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Gratuitous Space Battles is
Gratuitous Space Battles is an indie game developed by Positech Games and released in 2009. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Gratuitous Space Battles holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.5 GHz processor, 1GB of RAM and 3D Card with 128MB video memory. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Gratuitous Space Battles launched on 16 November 2009, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Gratuitous Space Battles yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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