To be perfectly honest, Gratuitous Space Battles isn't what you would call a 'game' or at least what you would call a regular game. You build the ships, you give them orders, then you let them at it.
The shipbuilding aspect is the most complicated, and that is what you will be spending the most time on. Trying to balance cost, power, crew, and weapons on your ships will take a lot of thinking, and you will find yourself with a lot of ships that you have made but are flawed in some way or are tailored to specific missions with certain environmental limits. To play this game, a significant investment of time is required, both to learn the basics and to build your ships. Some people just don't have that.
If you do though, then this game might interest you.
And if you are really interested, then there are not a few mods out there. Some add a few ships or new missions, but some add much, much more. The UNI-T mod is one of many.
tl;dr
GSB is a hard game to get into, but if you do, it is immensely satisfyingly.
Only for people that can get into it. I find it fun.
To be perfectly honest, Gratuitous Space Battles isn't what you would call a 'game' or at least what you would call a regular game. You build the ships, you give them orders, then you let them at it.
The shipbuilding aspect is the most complicated, and that is what you will be spending the most time on. Trying to balance cost, power, crew, and weapons on your ships will take a lot of thinking, and you will find yourself with a lot of ships that you have made but are flawed in some way or are tailored to specific missions with certain environmental limits. To play this game, a significant investment of time is required, both to learn the basics and to build your ships. Some people just don't have that.
If you do though, then this game might interest you.
And if you are really interested, then there are not a few mods out there. Some add a few ships or new missions, but some add much, much more. The UNI-T mod is one of many.
tl;dr
GSB is a hard game to get into, but if you do, it is immensely satisfyingly.