- Ridiculous Space Battles announced! - 29 April 2025
Just letting GSB players know that today we announced that we are officially working (in fact we have been doing it secretly for 18 months now) on a 'spiritual successor' to Gratuitous Space Battles called... RIDICULOUS SPACE BATTLES. Its coded from scratch, but has the same vibe and same basic gameplay concepts, just re-imagined, re-coded and redesigned for 2025. Check out the store page below. And feel free to add it to your wishlist :D. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3607230/Ridiculous_Space_Battles/
- Gratuitous Space Shooty Game is released! - 11 January 2024
Just letting GSB players know that today we released a vertical shooter using the same artwork. Its a fun little coffee break game, super-cheap, and runs on anything. Its called 'Gratuitous Space Shooty Game'. I hope you enjoy it :D. Try and beat it on WTF difficulty level :D. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2763030/Gratuitous_Space_Shooty_Game
- Democracy 4 is now in Early Access! - 7 October 2020
Yes its true! after all these years, Democracy has finally returned to steam! Democracy 4 is now in Early Access, and your people are eagerly awaiting (or dreading!) your leadership! So far the game supports English-language only on PC (but more languages are coming soon), and we have the following coutrnies in need of governing: The USA! The UK! France! Germany! Canada! Democracy 4 already has steam achievements and steam workshop support, and a full modding guide is available. If you have ever found yourself getting angry in online debates about what the government should do, now is your chance to prove conclusively that you could do a better job. Its actually way harder than it sounds, especially if you think you will be able to stick to your principles AND win re-election over multiple terms... What will people think when you legalize LSD? when you double alcohol tax? when you give…
- Democracy 4 is just ONE WEEK away from Early Access - 29 September 2020
Exciting times! Not only does today mark the first Presidential election debate in the US, its just a week away from the launch into early access of our political strategy game Democracy 4. If you want to try your hand at implementing Universal Basic Income, or maybe you want to ban teaching evolution in schools, perhaps build a border wall, or legalize heroin, or go crazy with the money printer with some helicopter money or quantitative easing... these are all options available to you in Democracy 4. Currently the game features the USA, UK, Germany and France, and we expect to add Canada before Early Access starts, with a list of other countries coming after that as we continue to work on the game in response to player feedback. Here is the official trailer: https://youtu.be/kuJGiYC4cyg I also just added a new steam guide that explains how people can create mods for the game, which we…
- Democracy 4 is coming soon. Add to your wishlist :D - 3 September 2020
Great news fellow citizens! The latest installment in the geeky-but-popular political strategy game 'Democracy' series is coming to steam very soon, in a US election year no less. Just imagine how calm and peaceful our forums will be :D Its been 7, yes SEVEN years since the release of Democracy 3, and global politics has changed a lot. Democracy 4 takes the series into the modern age with new features like coalition governments, media reports, Quantitative Easing & Helicopter money, Fake news and Social Media. Here is the trailer: https://youtu.be/kuJGiYC4cyg Democracy 4 will be released soon on steam, so please check out the store page and add it to your wishlist to keep up to date with developments. We will be coming to early access, so will have plenty of opportunity to get feedback from players on how to best balance the game, and what cool new policies to add. Before you start typi…
- Coming soon: Design Variety Expansion pack for Production Line 🚗🚗🚗 - 15 October 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32939922%2Fee93ec8950cf0c1bae3a9fdb67c5606b6b250e1c.png Hi there! We are releasing our second expansion to Production Line: Car Factory simulation on the 23rd October! This expansion is a cosmetic-only change to double (yes DOUBLE) the variety of car design styles in the game! You can now pick from 2 different looks for every car design in the base game (Sedan,SUV,Sports,Compact,Offroad,Pickup & Small van). Mini trailer showing the new designs: https://youtu.be/LkRcorWhNcc Here is the store page so you can add the DLC to your wishlist :D https://store.steampowered.com/app/1174730/Production_Line__Design_Variety_Pack/ Plus if you have not checked out the game for a while, please do as we have released a whole bunch of updates over the last few months that massively improve the playability, performance and stability of the g…
- Have You Played Gratuitous Space Battles? - 18 April 2019
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Like a tin of hyperstrength lager lurking behind grubby plastic curtains in the chiller cabinet of a dismal newsagent, Gratuitous Space Battles knew just what it was about, and didn t make any secret of the fact. It was about selecting massive fleets of spaceships, tooling them up with guns, and wellying them into each other like shopping trolleys full of anvils. (more…)
- Gratuitous Space Battles ULTIMATE EDITION - 27 October 2015
Hi there GSB fans! We have just released an insanely low-priced compilation of absolutely everything in the universe associated with battles in space that are exceedingly gratuitous. This new pack is to be found here: http://store.steampowered.com//sub/81059 ...and it contains... Gratuitous Space Battles 2 Gratuitous Space Battles GSB: Galactic Conquest (Campaign) GSB: the Tribe GSB: The Order GSB: The Outcasts GSB: The Swarm GSB: The Nomads GSB: The Parasites. So if you think you might not have enough gratuitous space battles in your life, now is the perfect buying opportunity :D
- Gratuitous Space Battles ULTIMATE EDITION - 27 October 2015
Hi there GSB fans! We have just released an insanely low-priced compilation of absolutely everything in the universe associated with battles in space that are exceedingly gratuitous. This new pack is to be found here: http://store.steampowered.com//sub/81059 ...and it contains... Gratuitous Space Battles 2 Gratuitous Space Battles GSB: Galactic Conquest (Campaign) GSB: the Tribe GSB: The Order GSB: The Outcasts GSB: The Swarm GSB: The Nomads GSB: The Parasites. So if you think you might not have enough gratuitous space battles in your life, now is the perfect buying opportunity :D
- Bad Medicine, Good Money: Hands-On With Big Pharma - 27 March 2015
I ve never much thought about what goes into the little white tablet I swallow when I m hungover, have the sniffles or another bout of Geek s Disease.* It s just chalky magic, right? Well, no: it s the result of millions of dollars, aggressive R&D, production facilities of breathtaking size and precision, ruthless marketeering and impossibly sinister downplaying and mitigation of side effects. While medicine-themed management game Big Pharma doesn t go for pharmaceutical industry s jugular, Goldacre-style, its pills-as-merciless-industry approach is certainly a welcome change from the bland, smiling, comfortable faces that advertising tells us medicine are all about. …
- Positech Games unveils new Gratuitous Space Battles 2 development video - 28 November 2014
Cliff "Cliffski" Harris has released a new development video for the upcoming Gratuitous Space Battles 2, showing off new beam weapons, improved fighter behavior, and more realistic damage effects. It's possible to enjoy this video simply for the majestic destruction it brings to the table, and in that regard the new Gratuitous Space Battles clearly isn't going to deviate far from its predecessor. But it also looks to be considerably improved in a number of ways, such as with the addition of nebula clouds, squadrons of fighters that fly in formation, and capital ship damage that appears to be internal, rather than simply painted on. There will also be more types of "support beams," enabling more complex interactions between capital and support ships. It was thought back in the summer that Gratuitous Space Battles 2 might come out before the end of the year . With December looming and no…
- Gratuitous Space Battles 2 Trailer Comes In Peace - 18 September 2014
I’ve spent untold hours watching back replays of my own Supreme Commander games, taking the opportunity to slow-down or speed-up time, watch maneuvers by my opponents I missed the first time around, and to marvel at the bombastic laser wars that eventually decide each match. Gratuitious Space Battles is that whole process as an entire game: you build a fleet, design the ships, and then click go to watch a spectacular hands-off space battle. The sequel seems determined to make those battles more spectacular than ever, as demonstrated by this new trailer. Such pretty lasers and explosions. …
- Laser Days: Gratuitous Space Battles 2 - 2 September 2014
The conflicts in Gratuitous Space Battles 2 are certainly deserving of the adjective applied in the game’s title but the new video below brings several other descriptives to mind. ‘Colourful’, ‘cunning’, ‘extravagant’, ‘fabulous’ and more besides. Like it’s predecessor, GSB 2 is a game in which players construct fleets, position them and then watch as they do battle. Remember the text crawl that sucked all the excitement out of you like a joy vampire at the beginning of The Phantom Menace? “The taxation of trade routes to outlying starsystems is in dispute”, says Star Wars. GSB says, “BOY HOWDY THE PURPLE SHIPS ARE SHOOTING THE EVER-LIVING CRAP OUT OF THE GREEN SHIPS YOWZERS!” …
- Gratuitous Announcements: Gratuitous Space Battles 2 - 24 July 2014
Gratuitous Space Battles was not a game of masterful tactics. It didn’t allow damn fool gambits. GSB was won or lost long before then. GSB is played in the planning, the design and customisation of a huge space fleet and the careful behaviours you order them to follow. Once your ships are ready to launch, it could run the numbers and say if you won or lost, but that would be somewhat against the name. The eponymous space battles are gratuitous, with cruisers and fighters and lasers and missiles and drones and so many explosions for you to simply watch. Expect more explosions, as sequel Gratuitous Space Battles 2 is now officially announced. …
- Black Ops II and Gratuitous Space Battles can be played for free this weekend - 22 February 2013
So gratuitous... Maybe you'd like to play some games this weekend? Maybe you'd like them to be completely free? Maybe you'd also like them to be games you don't own; games that will stop letting you play them on Sunday unless you pay a reduced price to secure their continued use? That's a bizarre set of conditions, but whatever, Steam's got you covered. Both Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 and Gratuitous Space Battles are holding Free Weekend trials, giving you unpaid access to two completely different ends of the gaming spectrum. Gratuitous Space Battles is a sci-fi strategy in which you design spaceships, construct a space-fleet, issue space-orders and then watch as your space-squadron battles it out against an army of spacejerks. In space. It's currently 75%, with the generously stocked Complete Pack costing £3.49. CoDBlOps 2 is a purgatorial nightmare in which you're forced to endlessly a…
- Play Gratuitous Space Battles For Free This Weekend - 22 February 2013
I know many of you will be spending the weekend tending to your winter-blasted shoots as you celebrate the feast day of Serenus the Gardener, or perhaps remembering Red Army Day by engaging in tabletop recreations of the Battle of Kiev or, for the more ambitious, Operation Bagration. Commendable pastimes, I’m sure, but if the dusty red blocks that represent Soviet armoured divisions are lost in the attic, or Serenus’ spirit is locked in the frozen turf, then you may be interested to hear that Gratuitous Space Battles is free to play on Steam until Sunday 9PM GMT. (more…)
- Free Weekend - Gratuitous Space Battles - 21 February 2013
Play Gratuitous Space Battles for FREE until Sunday at 1PM Pacific Time. You can also purchase Gratuitous Space Battles at 75% off during this time. If you already have Steam installed, click here to install or play Gratuitous Space Battles. If you don't have Steam, you can download it here . 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 combines the visual appeal of an RTS, with the addictive unit-placement and design gameplay from tower defense games. In GSB, the player does not control individual ships at all during battle. The ships fight to a pre-determined set of orders and formations given to them by you before the battles. GSB casts you as supreme space ad…
- Gratuitous Tank Battles creator: free-to-play “doesn’t ask you to value the game until you already feel you own it” - 13 February 2013
The concept of distributing a game for no cost, once the domain of Facebook app-clones and mobile platforms, has quickly become commonplace in PC gaming. We've all seen clear evidence of such a phenomena, from the lessened emphasis on subscription models in MMOs to the availability of quality multiplayer shooters like Tribes: Ascend from a single download. In a blog post, Positech Games head and Gratuitous Tank Battles creator Chris Harris says the psychology of free gaming boils down to letting players set their own sense of worth before asking for money. "Free to play works because it doesn’t ask you to value the game until you already feel you own it," he writes. "How much would you pay for Farmville to buy it outright? Maybe $5? But play the game for free for a month, build up your farm, invest it, and then hit a plateau in the game where you really need to buy coins to continue, an…
- Gratuitous Space Battles Outcasts expansion adds new faction, ships, many tractor beams - 14 January 2013
I know a man who was once consumed by Gratuitous Space Battles. The stand-offish strategy lets you design a fleet, sketch out a plan of attack and then deploy them against the enemy. It's like cultivating a bionic army of space-pokemon. Once they're away, you can only watch as they're lasered, rocketed and bombed into shimmering clouds of galactic debris. My friend spent hours tinkering with the modules on each ship. He tried sending hordes of tiny fighters into the fray. He tried lone rocketeering behemoths. With every iteration his score increased until he entered the upper echelons of the global high score table. Then, one day, he was gone. All that remained was his chair, a puddle of alien goo and a note in cryptic cosmic shorthand. I sometimes wonder what happened to that guy. I like to think he was recruited by some interstellar warmongers to direct their ships. Wherever he is, I'…
- Brand New Worlds: Gratuitous Space Battles - 26 November 2012
The release of the conquest mode for Gratuitous Space Battles caused me to reinstall and lose a couple of weekends plotting and planning. Conquest provided a campaign to sit alongside the standalone bouts of ship wrecking and, lo, it was good. A few months ago, unbeknownst to me, a clever sort who goes by the name Pendra on the Positech forums released a random galaxy generator, providing Endless Consecutive Contextual Gratuitous Space Battles. There was an update to the generator this morning, which Cliffski mentioned in the Twittersphere , and I’ve copied some details into the emptiness below. (more…)
