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Positech Games · 2009 · 71 % positive of 848

24 games that play like Gratuitous Space Battles and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Gratuitous Space Battles 2, Stellar Warfare and BATTLESHIP APOLLO.

Player tags

  • Strategy
  • Auto Battler
  • Space
  • Top-Down
  • Sci-fi
  • Spaceships
  • Sandbox
  • Indie

At a glance

What games like Gratuitous Space Battles have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Gratuitous Space Battles: Space (23 of 24), Strategy (22) and Sci-fi (19).
  • They came out between 2009 and 2026, 22 of them after Gratuitous Space Battles (2009).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander (95 % positive of 11,171).
  • Gemini Wars and AI War: Fleet Command both play and look like Gratuitous Space Battles.

By gameplay

Plays like Gratuitous Space Battles

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. AI War: Fleet Command82 % positive of 1,582Shared: Strategy · Space · Sci-fi
  2. Sins of a Solar Empire II85 % positive of 6,946Shared: Strategy · Space · Sci-fi
  3. Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander95 % positive of 11,171Shared: Strategy · Space · Sci-fi
  4. Shallow Space25 % positive of 231Shared: Strategy · Space · Sci-fi
  5. Down with the Ship92 % positive of 875
  6. Star Ruler 281 % positive of 715Shared: Strategy · Space · Sci-fi
  7. Void Destroyer60 % positive of 348Shared: Strategy · Space · Sci-fi
  8. Homeworld 340 % positive of 8,029Shared: Strategy · Space · Sci-fi
  9. Dominus Galaxia: KS Edition83 % positive of 236Shared: Strategy · Space · Indie
  10. Dimensions: Dreadnought Architect56 % positive of 192Shared: Space · Sci-fi · Spaceships
  11. Pixel Starships73 % positive of 2,732Shared: Strategy · Space · Sci-fi
  12. Space Wars: Interstellar Empires65 % positive of 238Shared: Strategy · Space · Tactical

By look

Looks like Gratuitous Space Battles

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Zigfrak72 % positive of 239
  2. Salvation Prophecy66 % positive of 226
  3. Parkan 272 % positive of 369
  4. Gemini Wars32 % positive of 162
  5. Freespace 278 % positive of 305
  6. Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity®77 % positive of 793
  7. Beat Hazard 286 % positive of 2,231
  8. Avorion90 % positive of 13,614
  9. Ascent - The Space Game67 % positive of 340
  10. Space Pirates and Zombies90 % positive of 3,102
  11. ΔV: Rings of Saturn93 % positive of 2,954
  12. Aeon Command78 % positive of 412

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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