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Gratuitous Space Battles

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App ID 41800
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Positech Games
Supported Systems Windows macOS Linux
Last Changenumber 28820342
Last Record Update 5 May 2025 – 10:31:34 UTC ()
Release Date 16 November 2009 – 21:18:00 UTC ()
😌 68.94%
851 reviews
1
In-Game

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.

Additional Information

Developer Positech Games
gamedir Gratuitous Space Battles
metacritic_name Gratuitous Space Battles
icon empty string
metacritic_score 72
NoServers Yes
metacritic_fullurl https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/gratuitous-space-battles?ftag=MCD-06-10aaa1f
primarycache 41801
state eStateAvailable
serverbrowsername empty string
ValidOSList Windows macOS
GameManualURL https://store.steampowered.com/manual/41800/
InstallScript 41800_install.vdf
DLCAvailableOnStore Yes
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installscriptosx Gratuitous Space Battles.app/installscript_osx.vdf
primarycache_macos 41806
primarycache_mac 41806
LegacyKeyRegistrationMethod registry
LegacyKeyRegistryLocation HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\TestApp41800\SteamKey
ShowCDKeyOnLaunch Yes [view your cd keys in client]
SupportsCDKeyCopyToClipboard Yes [view your cd keys in client]
DLCPurchaseFromInGame No
Publisher Positech Games
Store Release Date 16 November 2009 – 21:14:00 UTC ()
community_hub_visible Yes
Primary Genre Strategy (2)
Store Genres Indie (23), Simulation (28), Strategy (2)
Steam Release Date 16 November 2009 – 21:18:00 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 8 March 2013 – 00:41:20 UTC () (1362703280)
review_score 6
review_percentage 71
Detected Technologies (?) FMOD SDK, cURL SDK
store_screenshot ss_484ffad345d21334cfb868df515a8a2ffd77bffe.jpg
First seen on SteamDB 11 February 2013 – 14:26:35 UTC (), in changelist #179497

Supported Languages

1 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English Yes

Tags

💡 Strategy 🧼 Auto Battler 🌠 Space 🗺️ Top-Down 🚀 Sci-fi 🛰 Spaceships 🧱 Sandbox 🌱 Indie 🏽 2D 🏠 Building 🖥️ Simulation 👤 Singleplayer 🛠️ Moddable 💥 Action 🌐 RTS 😓 Difficult 🕹️ Multiplayer 🏰 Tower Defense 🤔 Tactical 🔋 Physics

Categories

Single-player Steam Trading Cards Family Sharing Multi-player

Assets

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small_capsule
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header_image
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Assets
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page_background_pathapp/41800
timestamp1 November 2016 – 18:50:07 UTC

Launch Options

0. Unnamed launch option
Executable GSB.exe
Launch Type Unspecified
Operating System   windows
1. Unnamed launch option
Executable Gratuitous Space Battles.app
Launch Type Unspecified
Operating System   macos
2. Unnamed launch option
Executable run_game.sh
Launch Type Unspecified
Operating System   linux

Configuration

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installdir Gratuitous Space Battles
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