8-Bit Armies on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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8-Bit Armies is a retro Real-Time Strategy game. With a colorful, blocky voxel art style, 8-Bit Armies is Petroglyph's most fast-paced, friendly, and accessible RTS game to date. Featuring a campaign of 25 single-player missions, 12 co-op missions, multiplayer and skirmish modes.

8-Bit Armies is a strategy, simulation and indie game developed and published by Petroglyph.
Released on April 22nd 2016 is available only on Windows in 14 languages: English, German, French, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Hungarian, Polish, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Dutch, Romanian and Turkish.

It has received 2,419 reviews of which 1,982 were positive and 437 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.42€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified 8-Bit Armies into these genres:

Strategy Simulation Indie RTS Pixel Graphics Multiplayer Voxel Co-op Base-Building War Great Soundtrack Action Singleplayer Retro

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows Vista SP2
  • Processor: 2.6 GHz Dual Core Processor
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia Geforce GTS 250 or ATI Radeon HD 3870
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 2 GB available space

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April 2025
Middle thumbs up. Low budget game with stagnant tactical gameplay that outstays its welcome quite quickly. The core gameplay here is basically C&C: You spam as many barracks/warfactories as you can in a big conga line towards the enemy whilst spamming out as many units as you can, in the hope that your stream of units overwhelms theirs. All matches seem to devolve into this meta gameplay. But C&C/RA was forgiven for having cool looking units and fun FMV. Aside from that, the game itself is pretty polished. It has a lot of content, with multiple faction campaigns, skirmishes, multi, coop, all reusing the same maps. There's also some kind of dynamic campaign I didn't bother with. Looks ok, but has terrible animations. The sound is passable, the music is good. The map design is ok, though it's almost entirely symmetric.
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March 2025
I would recommend everyone start with 8 Bit Invaders, then play 8 Bit Armies. 8 bit invaders is easier and a lot more accessible, 8 bit armies is a bit more bland, but it's fun after playing as the aliens to get used how 8 bit armies plays. I'm currently exploring their conquest mode, which is interesting because every zone has a different type of enemy. Alien, Human, dragon, orc, it's interesting to watch humvees fight with giant orcs.
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Sept. 2024
Great RTS game. Absolutely worth grabbing when it goes on sale. Get the entire series.
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Aug. 2024
Decent, simple and fun, but low in replayability and depth.
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July 2024
This is an excellent pass the time sort of game. Really enjoyable and quirky in it's on way. It is easy to get in to and understand. I really enjoyed playing 8-Bit Army and recommend this game.
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Frequently Asked Questions

8-Bit Armies is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

8-Bit Armies is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.79€ on Steam.

8-Bit Armies received 1,982 positive votes out of a total of 2,419 achieving a rating of 7.89.
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8-Bit Armies was developed and published by Petroglyph.

8-Bit Armies is playable and fully supported on Windows.

8-Bit Armies is not playable on MacOS.

8-Bit Armies is not playable on Linux.

8-Bit Armies offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

8-Bit Armies offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

There are 2 DLCs available for 8-Bit Armies. Explore additional content available for 8-Bit Armies on Steam.

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8-Bit Armies supports Remote Play Together. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

8-Bit Armies is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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8-Bit Armies
14.79€ -84% 14.79€ 2.42€ -69% 14.79€ 4.60€
7.9
1,982
437
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
2
Developer
Petroglyph
Publisher
Petroglyph
Release 22 Apr 2016
Platforms
Remote Play
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