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Gratuitous Tank Battles

Positech Games · 2012-05-17

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 04, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 04, 2012 (Mac)

Set in an alternate history timeline where World War I never ends, you are the commander of allied forces fighting right up to the year 2114.

0
playing now
52%
positive of 103 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 62% of 17,990 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.1k–8.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 103 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.49 at Steam (2023-06-18) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$1.492015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-06-11 — best price $2.492015-08-17 — best price $9.992016-01-04 — best price $9.992016-07-04 — best price $9.992016-11-29 — best price $9.992017-07-05 — best price $9.992017-11-28 — best price $9.992018-02-19 — best price $9.992018-09-03 — best price $9.992018-11-27 — best price $9.992019-02-11 — best price $9.992019-11-01 — best price $9.992019-12-03 — best price $9.992020-01-27 — best price $9.992020-07-09 — best price $9.992020-12-01 — best price $9.992021-02-15 — best price $9.992021-08-23 — best price $9.992021-12-01 — best price $9.992022-04-18 — best price $3.392022-08-26 — best price $2.492022-12-22 — best price $2.992023-06-18 — best price $1.492023-11-21 — best price $2.492024-03-14 — best price $2.992024-11-27 — best price $2.992025-03-13 — best price $2.992025-06-26 — best price $1.992025-12-18 — best price $2.992026-03-19 — best price $2.492026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Player tags

IndieTanksStrategySimulationTower Defense

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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