Games like Gratuitous Tank Battles
Below are 24 hand-picked alternatives to Gratuitous Tank Battles for fans of strategy, indie, simulation, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Gratuitous Tank Battles also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, free-to-play picks, more from Positech Games. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
Get personalized picks →About Gratuitous Tank Battles: Set in an alternate history timeline where World War I never ends, you are the commander of allied forces fighting right up to the year 2114.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gratuitous Tank Battles at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Gratuitous Tank Battles on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~50% under Gratuitous Tank Battles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under Gratuitous Tank Battles on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~50% under Gratuitous Tank Battles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Gratuitous Tank Battles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~50% under Gratuitous Tank Battles on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~70% under Gratuitous Tank Battles on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under Gratuitous Tank Battles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Kingdom: Classic
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Kingdom is a 2D sidescrolling strategy/resource management hybrid with a minimalist feel wrapped in a beautiful, modern pixel art aesthetic.
Time Clickers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Time Clickers is what's called an 'incremental game'. There's always a fun upgrade to look forward to, and the numbers keep getting bigger! Hire a team to fight for you, even when you're offline!
These Doomed Isles: The First God
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
These Doomed Isles: The First God is a prologue chapter of the main game, These Doomed Isles. Play as Cernunnos, the Celtic god of nature, and lead the Celtic civilisation to victory against waves of invaders, curses and more!
Sky Clash: Lords of Clans 3D
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Build up your empire and hold your defense against the waves of enemy attacks! Develop your own strategy. Compete in epic Clan Wars!
Orbit-X
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Launch a rocket. Extend the Antenna. Set your internet service price and start making money. Oh and shoot down asteroids if they threaten your satellites.
Gear Up
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Feel the adrenaline as you control your unique tank in multiplayer arcade action! Build your ultimate war machine from over a million different combinations. Now, will you go for the rumbling caterpillar tracks or the crawling spider legs?
Grow Defense
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Upgrade your Castle and Unlock new tiers of Skills and Weapons to Defend vs Monsters and Bosses across VARIOUS ZONES! Find Rare ITEMS dropped from monsters and bosses and upgrade them to their full potential! Defeat RAID Mega-Bosses to find LEGENDARY items!
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Democracy 3
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Shares a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
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Have you ever wanted to be president? or prime-minister? Convinced you could do a better job of running the country? Let's face it, you could hardly do a worse job than our current political leaders.
Democracy 4
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Shares an intense mood with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Tank Battles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Democracy 4 lets you take the role of President / Prime minister, govern the country (choosing its policies, laws and other actions), and both transform the country as you see fit, while trying to retain enough popularity to get re-elected...
Production Line : Car factory simulation
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Shares a challenging mood with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Tank Battles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Gratuitous Space Battles
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Shares a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Tank Battles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who needs backstory? Who needs resource-gathering? Diplomacy is so last year. Gratuitous Space Battles cuts right to the chase of sci-fi strategy games, and deals with large, completely unjustified space battles between huge opposing space fleets.
Democracy 3 Africa
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Shares an intense mood with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Tank Battles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Democracy 3: Africa is the new standalone 're-imagining' of the hit political strategy game 'Democracy 3'. Set entirely in countries on the continent of Africa, D3:A puts you in charge of these countries and challenges you to stay in power whilst fixing each country's problems, improving the quality of life for your electorate, and...
Gratuitous Space Battles 2
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Shares a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Tank Battles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Have you ever wanted to be admiral of a huge, sprawling space battle-fleet of your own design? Ever wanted to design a fleet of battle-cruisers so powerful they can rip all who oppose them into space-dust? Ever wanted to build a battleship with purple rotating radars and 64 engines? Well we have good news for you...
Democracy 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Tank Battles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
On Tuesday, November 6th Americans will vote to shape the future of their country. Why wait? Start shaping your country's future now in Democracy 2.
Kudos 2
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Shares a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Tank Battles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Tank Battles.
Kudos is a turn-based game that puts you in control of a single character and manages their life from age 20 to 30. You get to pick their friends, their job, and how they spend their free time, but there is a catch! You can only choose to do one thing each day, or two at the weekends.
Frequently asked about Gratuitous Tank Battles
- How much does Gratuitous Tank Battles cost?
- Gratuitous Tank Battles is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Who developed Gratuitous Tank Battles?
- Gratuitous Tank Battles was developed by Positech Games.
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