Games like Gratuitous Space Battles
Closest overall match: Democracy 3 (★ 3.6). Quickest to finish: Influent at about 1 hours.
We compared Gratuitous Space Battles against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 11 came closest. What ties them together most: Singleplayer, steam-trading-cards and 2D. Updated Oct 16, 2026.
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67%
1. Democracy 3
Shares Moddable, 2D, steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; same developer; rated 1.0 higher.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 70
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 47%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14, Indie
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60%
2. Spacebase DF-9
Shares 2D, steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; rated 0.6 lower.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 2.0
- Metacritic
- 49
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 14%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14, Indie
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59%
3. Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition
Shares steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 2.7
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 10%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14, Indie
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59%
4. Influent
Shares steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 2.6
- Playtime
- 1h
- Finish rate
- 13%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14, Indie
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58%
5. Pixel Puzzles 2: Anime
Shares 2D, steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 lower.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 2.2
- Playtime
- 4h
- Shared genres
- 10, 14, Indie
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58%
6. Basement
Shares 2D and Singleplayer; rated 0.8 higher.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 32%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14, Indie
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58%
7. Xenonauts
Shares 2D, steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; rated 0.6 higher.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.2
- Metacritic
- 77
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 34%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14, Indie
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58%
8. AI War: Fleet Command
Shares 2D, steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2009
- Rating
- ★ 2.6
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 3h
- Shared genres
- 10, Indie
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57%
9. Kingdom: Classic
Shares 2D, steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; rated 0.8 higher.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 74
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 45%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14, Indie
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57%
10. Gnomoria
Shares 2D, steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; rated 0.6 higher.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.1
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 22%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14, Indie
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57%
11. Galactic Civilizations III
Shares Moddable, steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; rated 0.9 higher.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 3.5
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 33%
- Shared genres
- 10, 14, Indie
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Gratuitous Space Battles?
On our similarity model, Democracy 3 is the closest match to Gratuitous Space Battles — shares Moddable, 2D, steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; same developer; rated 1.0 higher.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Gratuitous Space Battles on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.