Gratuitous Space Battles is a game that refuses to fall in any given category. It's developed by Positech Games, a company from United Kingdom, that also did both Kudos games (1 and 2), Rock Legend (an RPG/life-sim/Tycoon game) and Democracy 2 (a political strategy game). Their pedigree couldn't be more varied. It's no wonder that when they've chosen to do a space combat type game, the result is something which hasn't been done before and not even imagined. Calling it a space combat game is wrong, in some sense. When a friend asks you what kind of game “Gratuitous Space Battles” is, and you can't answer without a couple of phrases, you know it has to be something about it that makes it stand out.