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Gimbal
Gimbal is the multiplayer shooter with buildable vehicles. Customize your weaponry, engines, and accessories, and then take to the skies against other pilots in real time.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
68 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“Yes, you can create anything. Yes, you can build a giant blob of guns and engines. Yes, you can have fun with friends. Yes, you will be blown up. Yes, you will laugh. Yes, you will have fun. Yes, you should buy this…”
“Gimbal is a top-down space combat game, similar in that respect to games like SPAZ, but is an online multiplayer shooter with an insane amount of customizability for your ships. Combat is fast and fun and only weighed…”
“First off i want to say this is one of the most fun games i've played. Gimbal is a top-down, high-atmospheric (or space) game in which you build ships to destroy other ships. The ships are fully customizable. There are…”
11 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“Gimbal, to me, is first sand-box game that also features great space combat. The 2D visuals are very appealing, but offer a welcome retro look reminiscent of space shooters from an earlier gaming era The similarities…”
“The screenshots do not do this game justice. In Gimbal you get to customiz your ship however you see fit. Multiple weapons, engines, sensors, parts to design your own ship. It is all 2d pvp and it WILL let you make a…”
“This is a great space shooter for experimenting and fooling around. The first attempts might be intimidating, but the experience quickly opens into a crafty and fun workshop of a game. The community is still small but…”
10 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“Yes, you can create anything. Yes, you can build a giant blob of guns and engines. Yes, you can have fun with friends. Yes, you will be blown up. Yes, you will laugh. Yes, you will have fun. Yes, you should buy this…”
“(Note: I have barely touched this game on Steam, however, I have played it before, off of Steam - mainly the demo, which you should check out). Gimbal is a cool little top-down (mainly) Multyplayer Spaceship Combat…”
“This game is utterly fantastic. On it's face it's a fairly standard 2D overhead space shooter. It has a few core improvements that set it apart from the pack, however. It has a very nice rigid body physics engine that…”
7 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“First off i want to say this is one of the most fun games i've played. Gimbal is a top-down, high-atmospheric (or space) game in which you build ships to destroy other ships. The ships are fully customizable. There are…”
“Gimbal, to me, is first sand-box game that also features great space combat. The 2D visuals are very appealing, but offer a welcome retro look reminiscent of space shooters from an earlier gaming era The similarities…”
“Gimbal is brilliantly simple. Build a ship, fly it into combat, blow stuff up, unlock new parts, improve the ship, repeat. It is also brilliantly complex. Exact placement of some ship parts is neccessary to improve the…”
7 of the 100 reviews raise this.
“There really is no doubt about whether this game is a keeper or not. Steam says ive only played less than an hour but thats not true at all. I played quite a bit on Desura before it hit Steam, and i can easily say its…”
“The game was great back in 2014-2015. Back then it had a decent community, full servers, and a dynamic range of playstyles/ships people developed and pitted against each other depending on the server point caps. The…”
“Game could be really fun if there was more of a community. Don't buy expecting there to be a ton of servers up all the time. Gameplay itself is quite good, the ships feel really nice to control. I think the maps are a…”
56 of the 100 reviews raise this · 32 of them still recommend the game.
“Gimbal is a top-down space combat game, similar in that respect to games like SPAZ, but is an online multiplayer shooter with an insane amount of customizability for your ships. Combat is fast and fun and only weighed…”
“Gimbal is a fun little multiplayer 2D top-down arcade space shooter. It has a number of modes, including death match, team deathmatch, and racing. It has unlocks and progression. It has an appealing art-style and sense…”
“Sounds like more fun than it is. Held back by the complexity of getting even a rudimentary ship working. If the idea of having a lot of control over tiny details in your ship is appealing you'll probably like this. When…”
50 of the 100 reviews raise this · 26 of them still recommend the game.
“Gimbal is a top-down space combat game, similar in that respect to games like SPAZ, but is an online multiplayer shooter with an insane amount of customizability for your ships. Combat is fast and fun and only weighed…”
“Gimbal is a fun little multiplayer 2D top-down arcade space shooter. It has a number of modes, including death match, team deathmatch, and racing. It has unlocks and progression. It has an appealing art-style and sense…”
“Sounds like more fun than it is. Held back by the complexity of getting even a rudimentary ship working. If the idea of having a lot of control over tiny details in your ship is appealing you'll probably like this. When…”
14 of the 100 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“Sounds like more fun than it is. Held back by the complexity of getting even a rudimentary ship working. If the idea of having a lot of control over tiny details in your ship is appealing you'll probably like this. When…”
“First off and just to put this out there, I love this game it's a pretty top down 2d space shooter were you battle other players in a variety of maps in a ship that you build out of some parts that the game has to…”
“Basically nobody plays this online anymore. Bots don't provide any sort of interesting challenge.”
13 of the 100 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“Well to be honest the game itself is great, But the people behind it from what I gather are not, I've appled on their forums a while ago (4 Days ) and haven't recieved my login info for the forums a administator is…”
“This game is beautiful, engaging, well-designed, and nicely polished. However, the developer released an update a while back which essentially ruined the game, and now nobody plays it. See comments for details.”
“This game was a gem but sadly it's abandoned and dead. Only get it if you have friends to play it with.”
13 of the 100 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“Sounds like more fun than it is. Held back by the complexity of getting even a rudimentary ship working. If the idea of having a lot of control over tiny details in your ship is appealing you'll probably like this. When…”
“if you re looking for a multiplayer SPAZ you wont like this one. while there s massive amount of hulls, modules and weapons, and the controls are somewhat innovative, there s only a few maps where you can play…”
“No Single player game play, Thats important when a multiplayer scene is dead and theres nothing left to carry the game besides "look i made a pretty."”
Counted across 100 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 71.7% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“Gimbal, is a nice looking 2D space shooter that has a lot going on underneath the hood. At first glance it looks like one of many ordinary space shoot'em up games, but as soon as you unlock the so called hangar option a new dimension opens up. Within the hangar players are able…”
— a player, Steam review · 22 hrs played“This game is an incredible combination of fast paced combat and detailed ship design. Combat: Combat is fun and, at times, thrilling. Some imbalances exist, especially on the "newb" servers-but there isn't anything that skill and design can't overcome. The design of your ships…”
— a player, Steam review · 20 hrs played“I tried hard to like this game. I really did. So, the basics of the game are as advertised. Build a ship using a variety of parts (the higher the level, the more you unlock) and fight. Things break down pretty fast though. First, there is a cheat to get yourself to maximum level…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedPrice tracking
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Latest official news
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Ship of the Week - DWS Samael II
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Ship of the Week - DWS Samael II
http://www.gimbalgame.com/sotw/samael_steam_banner.png Anti-Proton Projector Full Coverage Shield Automatic Defense Array Elegant Form Exorbitant Cost The DWS Samael II is obnonxiously large and power
Ship of the Week - MRC-20 Scavenger
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Ship of the Week - MRC-20 Scavenger
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Ship of the Week - Prototype X-1
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Indie |
| Player tags | Top-Down Shooter · Building · Multiplayer · Vehicular Combat · Physics · Sandbox · Indie · Shooter · 2D · Top-Down · Action · Sci-fi (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Partial Controller Support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Official site | http://www.gimbalgame.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 Processor: 2.0+ GHz Single Core CPU Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: 256 MB, Shader model 2.0, Nvidia GeForce 6600 or better DirectX: Version 9.0c Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 600 MB available space