Gratuitous Space Battles - стратегия для тех, кто всегда мечтал командовать собственной эскадрильей космических кораблей в нескончаемых битвах. От игрока требуется задать начальные параметры всех кораблей и их конфигурации, руководствуясь имеющимися данными о вражеском флоте. Имеется возможность создания собтвенных схем вооружения кораблей. Также на игрока ложится расстановка сил и выдача начальных приказов. В игре 4 расы с различными технологиями и индивидуальными преимуществами в бою, широкие возможности по модернизации своего флота, возможность контроля над временем и отличные графические эффекты.


Gratuitous Space Battles is a unique strategy game where you play the role of supreme commander of a vast fleets of spaceships, battling against AI controlled or player-designed enemy fleets. GSB is not a conventional strategy game, but more of an RTS/Tower Defense hybrid, where you design the ships, position the fleet, issue pre-battle orders and then sit back and watch the explosive galactic mayhem take place. Did you include enough fusion beams on your capital ships? Maybe you should have assigned some fighters to escort those ships in the middle of the fleet? GSB also allows you to challenge other players by uploading your best fleets to serve as their opposition, in a massively single-player galactic smorgasbord of laser-death!
Gratuitous Space Battles aims to bring the over-the-top explodiness back into space games. The game is for everyone who has watched big space armadas battle it out on TV and thought to themselves 'I could have done a much better job as admiral'. This is not a game of real-time arcade twitch reflexes. GSB is about what ships you design, and what you tell them to do. Your individual ship commanders have total autonomy during the chaotic battle that unfolds. This is not a tactical game, it is a strategic one. These gratuitous space battles are not won by plucky heroes with perfect teeth, but by the geeky starship builders who know exactly what ratio of plasma-cannons to engines each ship in the fleet will need.