# Gratuitous Space Battles Summer DB entity ID: b3fc809d\-c3ca\-4ed1\-b449\-3705e39736e5 Steam App ID: 41800 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\. 4 different unlockable player races Over 40 different ship hulls Over 120 spaceship modules 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\. ## Game information - Type: game - Developer: Positech Games - Publisher: Positech Games - Release date: Nov 16, 2009 - Coming soon: false - Free to play: false - Parent Steam app: Not collected - Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy - Categories: Single\-player, Steam Trading Cards, Family Sharing - Platforms: windows, mac, linux - Website: Not collected - Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/41800/ss\_484ffad345d21334cfb868df515a8a2ffd77bffe\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1767869252, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/41800/ss\_3e645881f9da1c593595d68ee08ae87bbb17c7f2\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1767869252, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/41800/ss\_81245d49fe0ec610dfdbd9b8e7857d3a1c536727\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1767869252, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/41800/ss\_313def725e0275ba6e0049a7de8f2bef25d664a9\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1767869252, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/41800/ss\_45993e8c41a3783c143532666f700411e7a6c9f7\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1767869252, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/41800/ss\_ec096062db3bc51f0df3ee56f85411e56c845103\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1767869252, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/41800/ss\_b49c5c96ca3e33d816750429d533e64f1df1d247\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1767869252, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/41800/ss\_032952156239ce03fccf37ecb1d1c4717f5ffc9e\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1767869252, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/41800/ss\_d20357d0cdc7c3fba139969948fed09eca96330b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1767869252, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/41800/ss\_f094f654f98c26ff30f0e1c848dd70a7d10d3c00\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1767869252, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/41800/ss\_86d835e0aa7e2487fa3959baece0c912dccc4d76\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1767869252, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/41800/ss\_20f7d04a0cd9cab087bd0ef5fadf9ea41eaedd73\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1767869252 - Price: 1499 minor units USD; discount 0% - Price country: US ## Observed metrics - Current players: 0 - Steam review count: 890 - Steam positive reviews: 622 - Steam negative reviews: 268 - Steam positive percentage: 69.88764044943821% - Summer DB rating: No native votes Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\} ## Player history [Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/b3fc809d-c3ca-4ed1-b449-3705e39736e5/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/b3fc809d-c3ca-4ed1-b449-3705e39736e5/player-metrics?days=7) Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown. ## Sources and freshness - Catalog membership: store\_catalog - Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00 - Details observed: 2026\-09\-21T19:07:56\.928575\+00:00 - Player count observed: 2026\-09\-21T19:07:58\.107568\+00:00 - Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-21T19:07:57\.842289\+00:00 Full provenance: \{"urls":\{"price":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/app/41800/","catalog":"https://api\.steampowered\.com/IStoreService/GetAppList/v1/","details":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/app/41800/","players":"https://api\.steampowered\.com/ISteamUserStats/GetNumberOfCurrentPlayers/v1/?appid=41800","reviews":"https://store\.steampowered\.com/appreviews/41800"\},"price":"2026\-09\-21T19:07:56\.928575\+00:00","source":"steam","catalog":"2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00","country":"US","details":"2026\-09\-21T19:07:56\.928575\+00:00","players":"2026\-09\-21T19:07:58\.107568\+00:00","reviews":"2026\-09\-21T19:07:57\.842289\+00:00","language":"en","editorial":null,"membership":"store\_catalog","observations":\{"price":"9cf6f3e1\-e55a\-4bac\-8359\-5b6e701840c7","catalog":"0bf2e1ad\-ecae\-42dc\-8001\-d5bb25945eb9","details":"530e15b0\-94d3\-4c1c\-aa65\-afcdd05ed543","players":"dd428651\-aeb2\-4e70\-83fb\-d152bfad930f","reviews":"1fabcdbd\-ed12\-4372\-a00f\-432a8a6003b1"\},"reviewFilters":\{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}\} Native rating methodology: \{"count":0,"average":null,"entityId":"b3fc809d\-c3ca\-4ed1\-b449\-3705e39736e5","revision":0,"observedAt":null,"methodology":"arithmetic\-v1","distribution":\[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\]\} Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted. [Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/41800/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/b3fc809d-c3ca-4ed1-b449-3705e39736e5)