Gratuitous Space Battles overview

Overview

Gratuitous Space Battles comes from Positech Games and is published by Positech Games. It arrived on Steam on Nov 16, 2009, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Trading Cards, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Gratuitous Space Battles's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 3 players at 9 October 2026 - 16:14:45 UTC, with a tracked peak near 4. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 70% positive across 877 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Gratuitous Space Battles is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Gratuitous Space Battles has sold up to 59,526 units and has 569 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $567,821. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Gratuitous Space Battles overview details

Gratuitous Space Battles combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009 Who 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. Gratuitous Space Battles combines the visual appeal of an RTS, with the addictive unit-placement and design gameplay from tower defense games. In GSB, the player does not control individual ships at all during battle. The ships fight to a pre-determined set of orders and formations given to them by you before the battles. GSB casts you as supreme space admiral, tasked with the design of individual spaceships, and the composition of your fleet, as well as general orders of engagement. This is not a twitch-based real time arcade game like many an RTS, but a game of careful thought, planning and big-picture strategy. Huge space battles can be won or lost depending on just how cleverly you balanced the needs of defensive shielding and armor against the expensive punch of laser cannons and plasma torpedoes. 4 different unlockable player races Over 40 different ship hulls Over 120 spaceship modules Choice of skirmish vs AI, or never-ending survival mode Play with different rules as each battle has different spatial anomalies to deal with. Note that this game is 16 years old and that screen resolutions larger than 1920x1080 may result in some visual issues on certain screens.

SteamPulse editorial summary

Gratuitous Space Battles is listed as a game with $14.99. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Trading Cards, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Indie, Simulation, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 3 players at 9 October 2026 - 16:14:45 UTC, a tracked peak of 4, and 70% positive reviews.

Overview tags

StrategyAuto BattlerSpaceTop-DownSci-fiSpaceshipsSandboxIndie2DBuildingSimulationSingleplayerModdableActionRTS

Support and legal notes

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