8-Bit Armies
Petroglyph · 2016 · Strategy, Simulation, Indie, RTS, Pixel Graphics
PC
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About 8-Bit Armies
✦ AI summary
Build your base, command your army, and dominate opponents in this colorful retro RTS that strips away complexity without sacrificing strategy. Packed with 25 campaign missions, co-op gameplay, and multiplayer modes, 8-Bit Armies proves that accessible RTS gaming doesn't mean casual fun.
A Blast From the Past!
8-Bit Armies is a retro Real-Time Strategy game for the PC. With a colorful, blocky voxel art style, 8-Bit Armies is Petroglyph's most fast-paced, friendly, and accessible RTS game to date. Collect resources, build up and defend your base, amass your army of military units, and ultimately crush your opponents! 8-Bit Armies features offline single-player missions, two-player cooperative missions, AI skirmish mode, and Player-vs-Player Multiplayer modes running on dedicated game servers.
Initial release includes:
8-Bit Armies is for anyone that enjoys RTS games, or felt overwhelmed by more serious games. With hours of solo and co-op gameplay included, there's something here for everyone!
"Its biggest offering to the RTS genre is its brilliant retro design and vivid, colourful graphics coupled with easy-to-learn gameplay. For those intimidated by the complexity of RTS games, 8-Bit Armies is a great place to start."
- CGMagazine
"Simple and balanced game play make 8-bit Armies an indie game gem! I wasn’t kidding when I said that I can’t stop playing this game, it is that good!"
- Just Press Start
"I love the the game, and it is definitely worth buying." and... "It's a fun, fun game and I'm absolutely, absolutely loving it!"
- Worth A Buy (YouTube)
8-Bit Armies is a retro Real-Time Strategy game for the PC. With a colorful, blocky voxel art style, 8-Bit Armies is Petroglyph's most fast-paced, friendly, and accessible RTS game to date. Collect resources, build up and defend your base, amass your army of military units, and ultimately crush your opponents! 8-Bit Armies features offline single-player missions, two-player cooperative missions, AI skirmish mode, and Player-vs-Player Multiplayer modes running on dedicated game servers.
Initial release includes:
- 25 offline campaign missions
- 12 co-op missions to play with your friends
- 10 multiplayer/skirmish maps that support up to 8 players online
- AI with multiple difficulty options to play with cooperatively or fight against
- Classic Base-Building mechanics let you construct the ultimate HQ from which to launch attacks against your foes
- Destructible environments on maps ranging from small to very large
- Easy to understand modern military units and structures lets RTS beginners jump right in
- From the same team that brought you RTS classics such as Star Wars: Empire at War, Universe at War, and Grey Goo
8-Bit Armies is for anyone that enjoys RTS games, or felt overwhelmed by more serious games. With hours of solo and co-op gameplay included, there's something here for everyone!
More reviews from game journalists...
"Its biggest offering to the RTS genre is its brilliant retro design and vivid, colourful graphics coupled with easy-to-learn gameplay. For those intimidated by the complexity of RTS games, 8-Bit Armies is a great place to start."
- CGMagazine
"Simple and balanced game play make 8-bit Armies an indie game gem! I wasn’t kidding when I said that I can’t stop playing this game, it is that good!"
- Just Press Start
"I love the the game, and it is definitely worth buying." and... "It's a fun, fun game and I'm absolutely, absolutely loving it!"
- Worth A Buy (YouTube)
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
6/10 - Very bland. There is no reason to play this instead of C&C.
campaign is bad; it seems more like an advanced tutorial or generated challenges.
Its kinda the temu version of command and conquer but its actually good
Before I recommended this game, I checked the price on the store page. At the moment, it's 50% off, so $7.50, normally €15. Personally, I'd say it's good enough at either price - I played through the campaign, three-starred every mission, total playtime about 7hrs. Just with that, I had enough fun to justify the game. There are, of course, caveats. The story is told in about a paragraph's worth of text at the start of a mission, the overarching story is... There, I guess. It's mostly an excuse. The graphics do their job, although infantry kinda blend into the unit blobs that tend to form and are hard to pick out. Harvesters have way too much HP. Also, instead of tiberium or whatever, there's oil derricks that basically work like Warcraft goldmines. It's a fun game, not amazing, but if you basically just want an experience similar to Command & Conquer's gameplay for some skirmishes, it's nice. It's absolutely amazing compared to C&C 4, but I'm honestly considering if breaking my fingers in a mousetrap would be better or worse than trying to play that game again. OTOH, weeks if not months of not using one or two fingers, but at least I wouldn't be playing the grindiest g…
really fun rocket cars :D
really good game but there are no ships sad u got to buy guardins even in ps4 and 5 u can buy it without the need to buy guardins
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