Gratuitous Space Battles Review

The simplest pleasures are sometimes the best ones. In the context of gaming, simple pleasures come in lots of different ways. They’re increasingly hard to find with today’s games growing ever more complex, but occasionally a developer will come along and release a title composed of gameplay mechanics that have been distilled down to their most basic forms. Keeping things simple allows players to focus on one or two core mechanics instead of losing themselves in endless layers of depth or difficulty. Independently developed (and aptly named), Gratuitous Space Battles focuses like a laser beam on several classic elements.

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