Gratuitous Space Battles

GAME UNPLAYABLE DO NOT BUY. I really enjoyed this game when i was younger and while you don't expect a game like this still be worked on so many years later the dev's just abandoned the game without making it playable offline leading to a large part of the game being unplayable as the servers are long shut down. Its shocking practice and they should be ashamed of themselves, stop killing games.

It appears the servers the game relies on have been turned off, rendering it unplayable.

This game used to be great, but it's fundamentally broken now and will not run.

While I know that this game is old and holds at least some nostalgic value, I never played this game, so for me it was a rather disappointing experience. [list] [*] UI is horrible. From being unable to compare 2 items (even though you can compare ALL of the items at once but only by one stat), to extremely annoying process of deployment/making a new ship, to a completely useless post battle stats that give zero real insight into the effectiveness of your ships - interface is horrible everywhere and it will be a problem for every second you are playing this game. [*] Visual design. While different races have distinct designs, ships of one race are way too similar - sure, you can figure out some of them based on size, but differences between ships of one class are basically non-existent. There is also a lot of visual noise in the background and objects like asteroids/debris, but at least some of them can be disabled. [*] Extremely unimpressive number of available modules and their poor balancing. Even your choice of race matters very little, as it just changes some inbuilt bonuses that depend more on the hull size, while all of the modules are reused for every race. For a game that is primarily a ship building game having low choice is already bad, but when you realise you can make 95% of enemy weapons deal no damage if you just stack more armor - the challenge and fun just stop existing. [*] Some features are locked behind a now-disabled server. Why there was an online feature that just blocks half of the game in the first place is a big mystery to me. [*] Technical problems. For some the game simply refuses to run. For others it crashes often. [*] Price. 33$ for EU2 zone for a game that is broken and bare bones? Sorry, but even the ultimate bundle on 90% sale still feels like asking too much. [/list] Even for a game made in 2009 it would be extremely hard to recommend this game, as it offers nothing worthy of note, but today, with all of the technical issues and none of the core problems fixed? It isn’t worth playing even if it was free.

Unfortunately it appears this game is dead. CD keys don't work, the developer's server is returning 500 errors on key validation.

SPACE BATTLES - одна из игр "ошибок молодости", покупал, чтобы создать дешевые значки для профиля! В 2026 таким бы я заниматься точно не стал! Особо не планировал играть в эти игры, думаю так это и останется! Но если вдруг окажется, что одна из них это "Скрытый гем", то обязательно дам знать!

The game is magical cuz only babies can start it. I cant play this game as i would never be a child again. :(