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Gratuitous Space Battles 2 is a space fleet design and management game where you build customizable ships from components, issue orders, and watch battles unfold asynchronously against other players. Features a new graphics engine, unique ship classes such as dreadnought, destroyer, gunship, carriers with fighters, and epic visuals.

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9.99$
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Release Date

16 Apr, 2015

Publisher/Developer

Positech Games

Reviews

Steam: 36.48% positive (89/244)
Metacritic: -

System Requirements

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

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Gratuitous Space Battles 2 — Fleet Command Spectacle

Step into the admiral’s chair and command a sprawling space battle fleet built to your exact design. Build ships from a base hull using a vast array of adjustable visual components, so you control both the combat power and the look of every vessel. This is not a traditional RTS; it’s a management and simulation experience where you issue orders, set formations, and watch battles unfold from your fleet HQ.

Gratuitous Space Battles 2 preserves the core idea of the original while delivering a ground‑up rebuild of the engine. Expect beam lasers that are dramatically more prominent and explosions that feel truly gratuitous, all wrapped in a redesigned visual system with clever lighting and parallax for a cinematic look.

  • Asynchronous multiplayer challenges: create a full fleet, upload your orders and ship designs, and let other players download and battle your setup. Your fleet becomes a shareable challenge.
  • Expanded ship design: every ship is built from a wide range of components, enabling unique enemies and endless visual variety. You control both performance and appearance for a bespoke armada.
  • New ship classes: introduce Dreadnoughts, destroyers, and gunships to diversify combat roles and tactics.
  • Carrier support: carrier modules deploy fighters in battle and can refuel them mid‑fight, adding strategic depth to carrier play.
  • Formations and resilience: formations survive the loss of individual ships, preserving your tactics even in chaos.
  • Support beams and maneuvers: ships can act as tugs or mobile target-boost vessels, enhancing fleet coordination and utility.
  • Weapons and tactics: experimental options like radioactive plasma torpedoes expand your loadout choices.
  • Visuals and performance: built-in multi-monitor support; runs at ultra‑wide resolutions (5120 and beyond) with a dedicated 30 FPS mode for smooth video capture.
  • Accessibility and rewards: Steam achievements and trading cards are supported, celebrating your victorious campaigns.

Design, deploy, and direct with a strategic overview from the fleet HQ — then watch as your meticulously crafted armada reduces opponents to space-dust in a spectacle of gratuitous scale and style.


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