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Nov 16, 2009·75% positive·
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.
Best games like Gratuitous Space Battles
The best games like Gratuitous Space Battles are Gratuitous Space Battles 2, Battlevoid: Harbinger, Deep Space Battle Simulator, StarDrive, and NEBULOUS: Fleet Command. GAMESLIKE ranks these alternatives using shared gameplay metadata, Steam review sentiment, and similarity signals. Evidence includes 75% positive across 541 Steam reviews, Steam genre and tag overlap across Strategy, Indie, Simulation, platform support for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and $14.99 pricing signal.
- Gratuitous Space Battles 2 - Gratuitous Space Battles 2 is strongly similar to Gratuitous Space Battles because both games are made by Positech Games, and both are Strategy and Indie and Simulation games, and share gameplay elements like Strategy, and fit the same systems/automation/colony intent.
- Battlevoid: Harbinger - Battlevoid: Harbinger is closely similar to Gratuitous Space Battles because both are Strategy and Indie and Simulation games, and share gameplay elements like Strategy, and fit the same survival/crafting and systems/automation/colony intent.
- Deep Space Battle Simulator - Deep Space Battle Simulator is closely similar to Gratuitous Space Battles because both are Strategy and Indie games, and share gameplay elements like Strategy, Space, Sci-fi, and fit the same systems/automation/colony intent.
- StarDrive - StarDrive is closely similar to Gratuitous Space Battles because both are Strategy and Indie games, and share gameplay elements like Strategy, Space, Sci-fi, and fit the same systems/automation/colony intent.
- NEBULOUS: Fleet Command - NEBULOUS: Fleet Command is closely similar to Gratuitous Space Battles because both are Strategy and Simulation games, and share gameplay elements like Strategy, Sandbox, and fit the same survival/crafting and systems/automation/colony intent.
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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.
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4 different unlockable player races
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Over 40 different ship hulls
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Over 120 spaceship modules
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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.
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