Have you ever wanted to be admiral of a huge, sprawling space battle-fleet of your own design? Ever wanted to design a fleet of battle-cruisers so powerful they can rip all who oppose them into space-dust? Ever wanted to build a battleship with purple rotating radars and 64 engines? Well we have good news for you...
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Mostly Negative (225) - 36% of the 225 user reviews for this game are positive.
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Apr 16, 2015
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Includes 9 items: Gratuitous Space Battles, Gratuitous Space Battles 2, Gratuitous Space Battles: Galactic Conquest, Gratuitous Space Battles: The Nomads, Gratuitous Space Battles: The Order, Gratuitous Space Battles: The Outcasts, Gratuitous Space Battles: The Parasites, Gratuitous Space Battles: The Swarm, Gratuitous Space Battles: The Tribe

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“This is a game that does almost everything right from start to finish”
9.25/10 – Chalygyr's Game Room

“If you love strategy and have patience enough to micro-manage all the features, than this game will happily absorb hours of your time and days of your attention”
7/10 – Power up Gaming

“Frankly, it’s just good Lego-style fun, and I got pretty absorbed just sitting there building rad space vehicles”
8/10 – Pixel Dynamo

About This Game

Have you ever wanted to be admiral of a huge, sprawling space battle-fleet of your own design? Ever wanted to design a fleet of battle-cruisers so powerful they can rip all who oppose them into space-dust? Ever wanted to build a battleship with purple rotating radars and 64 engines? Well we have good news for you...
Gratuitous Space Battles is back! and it's approximately 50,000 times more gratuitous than before. A completely new ground-up rebuilding of the custom 'Gratuitous Engine' gives the game a completely new look, with beam-lasers 10x as 'beamy' as explosions 10x more gratuitous.

You now have complete control over the appearance of your ships, and can build them from a base hull and a bunch of adjustable visual components so you have control of both the composition AND the looks of your deadly starships. GSB2 retains the core gameplay of the original. This is NOT a standard RTS game, but a management/simulation game about building space fleets and giving them orders. You aren't the dumb schmuck who actually flies into battle and gets lazered. Leave that to those patriotic and keen young dudes from the outer-colonies. Nope, your job is as supreme commander in chief. Sit back at fleet HQ and watch the fireworks as you reduce the enemy to space-dust.

Using it's amazingly asynchronous multiplayer online 'challenge' system, GSB2 lets you put together a whole fleet and upload it, orders, formations and custom ship designs in one, up to a server where fellow GSB2 players can download it and pit their own fleets against it in glorious combat.



Some of the new features in GSB2:
  • Totally re-coded graphics engine for uber-explodiness
  • Every ship in the game is built from a wide range of components that mean no challenge will have identical looking enemies. Huge scope for ship design.
  • Super-clever lighting system and mega-parallax system makes for a more 3D, cinematic-looking experience, and more gratuitous effects.
  • Built-in multi-monitor support. Runs fine (and looks lovely) at 5120 res and beyond.
  • New classes of ship, introducing the Dreadnought, the destroyer and the gunship...
  • Carrier modules now bring fighters into battle, and refuel them mid-battle. Knock out a carrier to upset those pesky fighter pilots.
  • Steam achievements & trading cards at last!
  • Formations now survive individual members being lost.
  • New support beams allow ships to act as tugs, or mobile target-boost assistance vessels.
  • Support for new weapons combinations such as radioactive plasma torpedoes.
  • Built in 30 FPS mode for smooth video-capture for all you lets-play fans.
  • unashamedly gratuitous GUI.

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • OS *: Windows XP
    • Processor: 2 gig
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: 512 MB Video RAM, pretty much any card
    • DirectX: Version 9.0c
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    • Sound Card: any
    Recommended:
    • OS *: Windows XP
    • Processor: 2 gig quad core
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Geforce 670 or better
    • DirectX: Version 9.0c
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    • Sound Card: any
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    Minimum:
    • OS: 10.6.8, 32/64-bit
    • Processor: 2GHz Dual Core
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 with framebuffer extensions
    Recommended:
    • OS: Latest Mac OS X
    • Processor: 2GHz Quad Core
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+, GeForce 600 series or better
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.
    Minimum:
    • OS: glibc 2.15+, 32/64-bit
    • Processor: 2GHz Dual Core
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 with framebuffer extensions
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    • Sound Card: Any
    Recommended:
    • OS: glibc 2.15+, 32/64-bit
    • Processor: 2GHz Quad Core
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+, GeForce 600 series or better
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    • Sound Card: Any

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