Gratuitous Space Battles
Short description
The first ever auto-battler game, from way back in 2009Who 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.
- Developer
- Positech Games
- Publisher
- Positech Games
- Release
- Mon, Nov 16, 2009
- Price
- $14.99
- Reviews
- 561
- Positive
- 73%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 200K – 500K
- Concurrent players
- 1
- Genres
- Indie, Simulation, Strategy
- Features
- Steam Trading Cards
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $13.66, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $14.99 launch price. That is 9% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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History
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