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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 is a strategy, auto battler and space game developed and published by Positech Games.
Released on November 16th 2009 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 848 reviews of which 610 were positive and 238 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.9 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Gratuitous Space Battles into these genres:

Strategy Auto Battler Space Top-Down Sci-fi Spaceships Sandbox Indie 2D Building Simulation Singleplayer Moddable Action RTS Difficult Multiplayer Tower Defense Tactical Physics

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • 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
MacOS
  • OS: OS X version Leopard 10.5.8, Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or later.
  • Processor: Intel 1 Ghz
  • Memory: 512 MB
  • Graphics: 32MB video card
  • Hard Drive: 75 MB

User reviews & Ratings

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May 2025
THIS is how strategy should look! The game have its flaws, but if you can overlook some of the inconveniences (campaign not working or not working properly, having to register, etc.), then it's an amazing strategy game.
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May 2025
I love this game!
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March 2025
Gratuitous Space Battles offers the peculiar pleasure of surrendering control while maintaining the illusion of strategy. It's chess where you arrange the pieces then watch them fight according to rules you don't fully understand. Brilliant for those who enjoy the planning more than the execution, disturbing for those who realize how much of life follows the same pattern.
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Sept. 2024
Solid, fun, a good time with low stakes. There's nothing to complain about here and plenty to like.
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July 2024
Oh, yes. Oversee Space battles, with a fleet you kitted out. Watch a learn from effects, damage, and combinations between defense and offensive modules. More speed, less armor. Missles or Beams. Shields? Reflective or rechargeble? Quantum, Plasma or blaster types? Theres a great selection of modules and ship shapes. Then times all that with the different races, with some specialise in different ways. Single battles or conquest maps. Swarms of fighters with short range pulse lasers may sometimes be the answer to get close in under shield of fleets of large cruisers. Plenty to play with and get good at what works. Should you wish, you can have a look at the Data files and tweak your own weapons, and name your own and makes some real lightsaber thick heat beams. I made Black cold beams that I named "Antimatter Void Beams!" Or my Swarm torpedoes, tiny slow torpedoes with fast turn rates that chase fighters around the map. You can even tweak ships hard points and add them to ships that you drew on photo shop/Gimp app. My Borg Cubes were created easy. You can really enjoy yourself here. Worth the time to look inside and push what the game can do.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Gratuitous Space Battles is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

Gratuitous Space Battles is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.79€ on Steam.

Gratuitous Space Battles received 610 positive votes out of a total of 848 achieving a rating of 6.91.
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Gratuitous Space Battles was developed and published by Positech Games.

Gratuitous Space Battles is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Gratuitous Space Battles is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Gratuitous Space Battles is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Gratuitous Space Battles offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Gratuitous Space Battles offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

There are 6 DLCs available for Gratuitous Space Battles. Explore additional content available for Gratuitous Space Battles on Steam.

Gratuitous Space Battles does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Gratuitous Space Battles does not support Steam Remote Play.

Gratuitous Space Battles is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Gratuitous Space Battles
14.79€
6.9
610
238
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Positech Games
Publisher
Positech Games
Release 16 Nov 2009
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