2025-04-29 20:26 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
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. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3953285/297f8763b42add0e50f466e2c0b806cb564ed9d4.jpg 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/
2024-01-11 11:27 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
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
2020-10-07 18:30 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32939922/24aa6f4096dcee953b60b9b30cf46c9a60746b7e.png 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
2020-09-29 09:53 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32939922/24aa6f4096dcee953b60b9b30cf46c9a60746b7e.png 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 option
2020-09-03 11:29 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32939922/24aa6f4096dcee953b60b9b30cf46c9a60746b7e.png 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 & He
2019-10-15 15:06 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/32939922/ee93ec8950cf0c1bae3a9fdb67c5606b6b250e1c.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 wis
2019-04-18 08:05 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Nate Crowley)
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…)
2015-10-27 18:21 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
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
2015-10-27 18:21 UTC · Community Announcements · cliffski
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
2015-04-17 09:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)
2015-03-27 15:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alec Meer)
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 bla
2014-11-28 19:44 UTC · PC Gamer
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 b
2014-09-18 12:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Graham Smith)
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.
2014-09-02 13:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Adam Smith)
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 outlyi
2014-07-24 19:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice O'Connor)
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 G
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