Games like Gratuitous Space Battles
If Gratuitous Space Battles is your kind of game, the closest matches are Orbital Traffic Controller, FleetForge: Warship Builder & Fleet Command and Asteroid Colony — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its endless build experimentation, modding via text files and chill. 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.
Get personalized picks →About Gratuitous Space 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.
Players who liked Gratuitous Space Battles also play
Steam players who put hours into Gratuitous Space Battles also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Orbital Traffic Controller
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Top pick for Gratuitous Space Battles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles.
Orbital Traffic Controller is a sci-fi spaceship management game set in the Solar System. Become an interstellar traffic controller, directing vessels from planetary holding patterns and warp gates to atmospheric reentry, all while avoiding collisions with other spacecraft and planetary bodies.
FleetForge: Warship Builder & Fleet Command
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Gratuitous Space Battles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles.
Conquer a contested galaxy by designing modular warships and commanding real-time fleet battles. Forge your fleet from dozens of modules and weapon systems, then grow your empire in a solo or online co-op campaign.
Asteroid Colony
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Gratuitous Space Battles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles.
In this real time strategy city builder game you will help humanity in reaching beyond earth by establishing a permanent and thriving settlement in the asteroid belt. Settling in space comes with enormous challenges and dangers, which you will have to guide your people through
Space Menace
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Shares a relaxing mood with Gratuitous Space Battles.
Ranked #4 for Gratuitous Space Battles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles.
Space Menace is a sci-fi space RTS and battle game. You play as a space captain, seeking fortune and glory as you see fit. Leave your mark on the world and determine the fate of the galaxy with your decisions.
Rank: Warmaster
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Ranked #5 for Gratuitous Space Battles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles.
Stranded on Mars with next to nothing, build a city, assemble a fleet, and expand your empire to survive a hostile solar system in this new take that combines elements of space combat and RTS inspired by the classics.
Nexus - The Jupiter Incident
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Ranked #6 for Gratuitous Space Battles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles.
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."
Starpoint Gemini Warlords
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Space Battles.
Ranked #7 for Gratuitous Space Battles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gratuitous Space Battles.
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!
Anno 2205™
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Gratuitous Space Battles.
Ranked #8 for Gratuitous Space Battles fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Gratuitous Space Battles.
In Anno 2205™, you join humankind‘s next step into the future with the promise to build a better tomorrow. You conquer Earth, establishing rich, bustling cities and grand industrial complexes, but to secure the prosperity of your people, you must travel into space.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gratuitous Space Battles at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under Gratuitous Space Battles on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gratuitous Space 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 ~67% under Gratuitous Space Battles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gratuitous Space 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!
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Gratuitous Space Battles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
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Priced ~50% under Gratuitous Space Battles on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Gratuitous Space Battles.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under Gratuitous Space Battles on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under Gratuitous Space Battles on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~67% under Gratuitous Space Battles on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space 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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Gratuitous Space Battles on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Gratuitous Space Battles.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Gratuitous Space Battles.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
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More from Positech Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Positech Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Democracy 3
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Shares a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Space Battles.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Space Battles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space Battles.
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.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Space Battles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space 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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Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Space Battles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space 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?
Democracy 3 Africa
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Shares a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Space Battles.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Space Battles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space 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 ship customization and a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Space Battles.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Space Battles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space 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...
Gratuitous Tank Battles
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Space Battles.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Space Battles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space 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.
Democracy 2
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Gratuitous Space Battles.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Space Battles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space 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 chill mood with Gratuitous Space Battles.
Another title from Positech Games, the studio behind Gratuitous Space Battles. Shares Strategy and Indie with Gratuitous Space 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 Space Battles
- How much does Gratuitous Space Battles cost?
- Gratuitous Space Battles is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Gratuitous Space Battles?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gratuitous Space Battles are Orbital Traffic Controller, FleetForge: Warship Builder & Fleet Command, Asteroid Colony.
- Who developed Gratuitous Space Battles?
- Gratuitous Space Battles was developed by Positech Games.
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