Top 15 Gratuitous Space Battles Alternative and Similar Games | Dec 2024

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.

1. Evil Genius

Evil Genius Build a secret base, gain notoriety by completing daring missions, repel the forces of justice in real-time combat, and develop evil super-weapons to complete your nefarious master plan. As a malevolent mastermind bent on achieving global domination, through the construction of the ultimate doomsday device, Evil Genius gives you all......

2. Zero-K

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3. Starfall Tactics

Starfall Tactics Powered by Unreal Engine 4, Starfall Tactics allows you to assemble and customize your own spaceship flotilla and lead it into battle. Pick a side, fight other players and create a name for yourself in a decaying, war-torn galaxy. Exciting PvP matches, ranked matches for advanced strategists and wargamers, challenging......

4. Sorcerer King

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5. Europa 1400: The Guild (Series)

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6. Realm Defense

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7. EVE Online

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8. Freelancer

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9. Radiant Defense

Radiant Defense Radiant Defense is a tower defense game set in a vibrant universe invaded by countless alien hordes.Build your space fortress any way you wish, set up wide variety of weapons and traps and let the invasions begin!FEATURES Tower Defense set in the Radiant Universe Build your own path for......

10. ScrumbleShip

ScrumbleShip ScrumbleShip is the most accurate space combat simulation devised to date. Gather resources, construct a capital ship out of individual blocks, then pilot it with AI or real-human help against other players.Want to build a hulking behemoth with a three-meter thick titanium hull? You can do that.How about a carrier......

11. Horizon game

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12. SpellForce (Series)

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13. Fieldrunners

Fieldrunners Fieldrunners is a game developed by Subatomic Studios, for Steam/PC, iPhone/iPod Touch, iPad, Android and Blackberry. Descend into the world of Fieldrunners, the most anticipated and visually stunning game in mobile Tower Defense history! Defend and control the field using a diverse selection of upgradeable towers in a limitless adventure,......

14. Super Star Trek

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15. Ascii Sector

Ascii Sector Ascii Sector is a free space combat/exploration/trading game for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. You start with a simple spaceship and can then accept missions or trade goods to earn enough money to upgrade your ship or buy a new one.You can engage in deadly fights both in space,......