Games like Gratuitous Space Battles 2
If Gratuitous Space Battles 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Gratuitous Space Battles, The Last Federation and Into the Stars — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its community content expands replayability, ship customization is unparalleled and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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Gratuitous Space Battles
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Shares ship customization and a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Top pick for Gratuitous Space Battles 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
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.
The Last Federation
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Second-strongest match for Gratuitous Space Battles 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
From the creators of AI War: Fleet Command comes an all-new grand strategy title with turn-based tactical combat, set in a deep simulation of an entire solar system and its billions of inhabitants. You are the last of a murdered race, determined to unify or destroy the 8 others.
Into the Stars
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Gratuitous Space Battles 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Take the role of Captain in this Space Survival Simulation as you explore a massive star system in search of a new home for humanity. Outfit your ship, hand pick your crew and set off on a journey through an open-world where you must scavenge resources, shelter civilians and outrun a hostile alien force.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Ranked #4 for Gratuitous Space Battles 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander is a retro space strategy RPG with base building, deep tactical combat, crew management and emergent storytelling.
Starpoint Gemini Warlords
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Shares a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Ranked #5 for Gratuitous Space Battles 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Strategy from the front lines! Starpoint Gemini Warlords combines 3rd person capital spaceship combat with 4X strategy and RPG gameplay elements. Build mighty war fleets and send them into battle or lead them into combat yourself. Become the Warlord and conquer the Gemini system!
Objects in Space
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Ranked #6 for Gratuitous Space Battles 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Objects in Space is a retro space game centred on 2D point-and-click stealth action in a massive open world. Players have their own customisable ships and can meet people, become a trader, bounty hunter, explorer, scavenger or all of them at once.
Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
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Shares an epic mood with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Ranked #7 for Gratuitous Space Battles 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Ambitious megacorporations monopolize the conquest of space and the colonization of the solar system. At the very edge of the solar system, the companies make a discovery that will shift the technological advantage and upset the balance. And so a new conflict is born: "The Jupiter Incident."
Particle Fleet: Emergence
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Ranked #8 for Gratuitous Space Battles 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Build and design your own fleets and stand opposed to the Particulate in this physics/strategy/RTS/fleet hybrid. Build partially destructible and self repairing ships that interact with enemies less controlled by some scripted logic and more driven by a real time massive physics particle simulation.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Gratuitous Space Battles 2
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Stellaris
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Shares an epic mood with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Reviewers of Gratuitous Space Battles 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.
Starvector
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Reviewers of Gratuitous Space Battles 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Eat a snack while you watch an entire planet burn in your image.
Gratuitous Space Battles
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization and a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Reviewers of Gratuitous Space Battles 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
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.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
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Reviewers of Gratuitous Space Battles 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Winner of more than 200 Game of the Year Awards, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition brings the epic fantasy to life in stunning detail. The Special Edition includes the critically acclaimed game and add-ons with all-new features.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gratuitous Space Battles 2 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under Gratuitous Space Battles 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
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 Space Battles 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
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 Space Battles 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
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 Space Battles 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under Gratuitous Space Battles 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
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 Space Battles 2 on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
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 Space Battles 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
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 Space Battles 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
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.
Crusader Kings II
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
The epic story of evolution, technology, humanity, and dinosaurs is yours to tap.
Toribash
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Toribash is an innovative free-to-play online turn-based fighting game where you’re able to design your own moves. Complete control over character's body, hundreds of game mods and bloody mess with full body dismemberment - you've never been able to annihilate your enemies like that before!
Learn to Fly 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Build your spaceship from scratch, earn funds and invest them into building a bigger, better spaceship as you try and fly your way up to space!
Endless Sky
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.
Zero-K
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
With 100+ truly unique units, Zero-K is an RTS of freedom and creativity, tempered by a decade of refinement. Sculpt land into a castle and throw invaders off it with a Jugglenaut. Explore a massive campaign, solo or co-op. Hop online for epic 32 player battles or fast paced 1v1, on 100s of maps.
Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
As Captain Kayto Shields, embark on a galactic voyage of heroism and survival. With his home world destroyed and his nation conquered, the inexperienced Captain Shields, and his newly minted vessel, the Sunrider, are left as the only hope against a galactic evil intent on subjugating all sentient life.
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Other recommendable Steam games by Positech Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Democracy 3
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Space Battles 2. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
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
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Space Battles 2. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
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 Space Battles 2.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Space Battles 2. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
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
WHY THIS
Shares ship customization and a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Space Battles 2. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
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
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Space Battles 2. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
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 Tank Battles
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Shares a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Space Battles 2. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
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.
Democracy 2
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Shares a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Space Battles 2. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
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 Space Battles 2.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Space Battles 2. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles 2.
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 Space Battles 2
- How much does Gratuitous Space Battles 2 cost?
- Gratuitous Space Battles 2 is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Gratuitous Space Battles 2 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Gratuitous Space Battles 2 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Gratuitous Space Battles 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gratuitous Space Battles 2 are Gratuitous Space Battles, The Last Federation, Into the Stars.
- Who developed Gratuitous Space Battles 2?
- Gratuitous Space Battles 2 was developed by Positech Games.
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