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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 ()
😌 69.01%
850 reviews
3
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
installscript_macos Gratuitous Space Battles.app/installscript_osx.vdf
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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header_image
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Assets
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timestamp1 November 2016 – 18:50:07 UTC

Depots

ID Configuration Size DL.
41817 Windows DLC 41817Gratuitous Space Battles: The Outcasts 61.96 MiB 0 B
41816 Windows OptionalDLC 41816Gratuitous Space Battles - Parasites DLC 39.89 MiB 0 B
41815 macOS OptionalDLC 41815GSB: Galactic Conquest Mac 21.41 MiB 0 B
41814 Windows OptionalDLC 41814Gratuitous Space Battles: Galactic Conquest 72.35 MiB 0 B
41813 macOS OptionalDLC 41813GSB: Swarm Expansion Mac 16.79 MiB 0 B
41809 macOS OptionalDLC 41809GSB: Nomads Expansion Mac 10.89 MiB 0 B
41808 macOS OptionalDLC 41808GSB: Order Expansion Mac 25.34 MiB 0 B
41807 macOS OptionalDLC 41807GSB: Tribe Expansion Mac 9.87 MiB 0 B
41806 macOS GSB mac content 166.87 MiB 0 B
41805 Windows OptionalDLC 41805Gratuitous Space Battles: Nomads 46.61 MiB 0 B
41804 Windows OptionalDLC 41804Gratuitous Space Battles: Swarm 54.95 MiB 0 B
41803 Windows OptionalDLC 41803Gratuitous Space Battles: The Order Expansion 64.66 MiB 0 B
41802 Windows OptionalDLC 41802Gratuitous Space Battles: Tribe Expansion 46.54 MiB 0 B
41801 Windows gratuitous space battles content 264.31 MiB 0 B
41818 Linux GSB Linux content 70.77 MiB 0 B

Total size on disk is 973.18 MiB and total download size is 0 B.

Total size on disk is 264.31 MiB and total download size is 0 B, when filtered to Windows, English, no DLC depots.

Branches

Name Description Build ID Time Updated
public 76235

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