From the review: "Part RTS, part tower defense, with a smidgen of casual gaming thrown in, “Gratuitous Space Battles” is a great deal of fun and surprisingly deep, especially early on while the player is exploring the mechanics. Definitely worth 17 bucks for the collector's edition. Bonus points for the Iain M. Banks allusions."
"You have probably heard this a thousand times, but time really does fly. It has been nearly three years since I last played Gratuitous Space Battles, the space combat simulation game that required players to focus more on battle planning, ship placement, ship configurations and their command orders rather than actual control of the war. It was a game where you would sit back with a bucket of popcorn and watch how your strategy played out on screen, as the action between the computer A.I and your pre-battled planned A.I fought in a flourish of colourful lasers and glowing defence shields that lit up the darkness of space."
GameVortex - The Vla-hurk civilization was an advanced one, with the technology to not only replace limbs and organs, but to enhance their capabilities. However, the rise of a new religion, the New World Religion, turned the public opinion against cybernetic augmentation. Soon, the cyberneticaly enhanced are shunned as a lower, less pure class. This went on for a thousand years, until those who chose augmentation decided to abandon their home-world to become a spacefaring, nomadic society... but not before nuking the entire planet from orbit. Now, they move from system to system, never to step on a planetary surface again.
The Outcasts expansion for Gratuitous Space Battles has finally arrived on Steam. If you’re unfamiliar with Gratuitous Space Battles, it’s a sci-fi strategy-based simulation where you command large fleets of spacecraft.
What makes Gratuitous Space Battles so great is the endless customization it offers the player. You can literally spend hours just designing ship layouts and customizing your options.
