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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 fleet
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 2026-10-16.
“Since I discovered how to mod the game and since they brought Manual Orders to it its really fun. Choose a race, create ships, deploy a fleet, give it orders, then let them go into battle and watch the outcome. Works also well with a touch screen. A really fine game and the…”
— a player, Steam review · 33 hrs played“The number of hours I've logged in this game should give you an idea of how replayable this is IF you like this kind of game, which I obviously do :3 How I would describe the game: -a couple or handful of hours of campaign, which really equates to; getting you used to the game…”
— a player, Steam review · 329 hrs played“unfortunately this gamme is now abandonware. The campaign apparently used to pull from a server all of the ships you could run into. it no longer does that at all. if you play campaign you will run into the same preset enemy fleet every single time. The main menu has an ad for…”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players, self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Ridiculous Space Battles announced!
Just letting GSB players know that today we announced that we are officially working (in fact we have been doing it secretly for 18 months now) on a 'spiritual successor' to Gratuitous Space Battles c
Gratuitous Space Shooty Game is released!
Just letting GSB players know that today we released a vertical shooter using the same artwork. Its a fun little coffee break game, super-cheap, and runs on anything. Its called 'Gratuitous Space Shoo
Democracy 4 is now in Early Access!
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Democracy 4 is just ONE WEEK away from Early Access
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Democracy 4 is coming soon. Add to your wishlist :D
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Strategy · Auto Battler · Space · Top-Down · Sci-fi · Spaceships · Sandbox · Indie · 2D · Building · Simulation · Singleplayer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Trading Cards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Official site | http://www.gratuitousspacebattles.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
OS *: Windows XP or Vista Processor: 1.5 GHz processor Memory: 1GB Graphics: 3D Card with 128MB video memory DirectX®: 9.0c Hard Drive: 300 MB Sound: Any