8-Bit Hordes
Petroglyph · 2016 · Strategy, Indie, RTS, Simulation, Pixel Graphics
PC
Very Positive82% · 479
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About 8-Bit Hordes
The Hordes are Coming!
From the team that brought you 8-Bit Armies comes a new fantasy RTS as fast-paced and friendly as the original! 8-BIT HORDES is a colorful strategy-arcade game that is easy to learn for players of all skill levels. Collect resources, build up and defend your base, amass your army of orcs or humans and ultimately crush your opponents! 8-Bit Hordes features offline single-player missions, two-player cooperative missions, AI skirmish mode, and Player-vs-Player Multiplayer modes running on dedicated game servers.
8-Bit Hordes includes all the following:
8-Bit Hordes is for anyone that enjoys RTS games but felt overwhelmed by complicated game mechanics and mysterious unit controls. With hours of solo and co-op gameplay included, there's something here for everyone!
From the team that brought you 8-Bit Armies comes a new fantasy RTS as fast-paced and friendly as the original! 8-BIT HORDES is a colorful strategy-arcade game that is easy to learn for players of all skill levels. Collect resources, build up and defend your base, amass your army of orcs or humans and ultimately crush your opponents! 8-Bit Hordes features offline single-player missions, two-player cooperative missions, AI skirmish mode, and Player-vs-Player Multiplayer modes running on dedicated game servers.
8-Bit Hordes includes all the following:
- 2 Factions - The Dark Orcs and their Undead allies versus those annoyingly cheery Humans, Dwarves and Elves of the Lightbringers.
- 24 offline campaign missions
- 12 co-op missions to play with your friendly fiends
- 10 multiplayer/skirmish maps that support up to 8 trolls online
- Devious AI opponents with multiple difficulty options to play with cooperatively or destroy
- Classic Base-Building mechanics let you construct the ultimate lair from which to launch attacks against your foes
- Destructible environments on maps ranging from the underworld to cemeteries and haunted forests
- A fun and friendly art style even the forever cursed would enjoy
- Full interoperability with 8-Bit Armies' factions and maps providing endless crossover combat opportunities
- An awesome new soundtrack by Frank Klepacki
- From the same team that brought you RTS classics such as Star Wars: Empire at War, Universe at War, and Grey Goo
8-Bit Hordes is for anyone that enjoys RTS games but felt overwhelmed by complicated game mechanics and mysterious unit controls. With hours of solo and co-op gameplay included, there's something here for everyone!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
8-Bit Hordes 8/10 The base gameplay in Hordes is the same as the rest of Petroglyph's "8-bit" line, so expect to play something that feels loosely like Command and Conquer, but this time with a bit of WarCraft mixed in. Unfortunately a lot of the issues with pathfinding, destroying terrain, workers going insane, etc, do persist as well. The positives also carry over. For a lower budget game, the micro in more open spaces works fine, hotkeying through big deathballs works well, and the C&C type UI is extremely intuitive, especially for newer players. The campaign takes place after 8-Bit armies, and has some of the same drawbacks(lack of production value, no real story, no cutscenes, but there are a lot of scenarios to play through, and trying for 3 stars on all the missions is pretty engaging, and gave me good reason to go back and retry earlier levels. The benefits from 3 staring the missions are ridiculously overpowering, however, for some missions like the finale of the Lightbringer(humans) campaign, it's probably worth it. If you're newer to RTS games, I would like to note that there isn't really a perceptible difference between normal and hard difficulty. Getting bronze on mos…6 found this helpful
only buy it if you don't own the others 8-bits. This is a full copy paste of the others. Why the orcs are in a wagon to go to the mine? Why can't they push it? why is it not Goblins going? Defo a lack on immagination on this one.4 found this helpful
Good game but buy on sale, traditonal rts game but with no cutscenes1 found this helpful
Its good
A delightful RTS, haven't had one this satisfyingly snappy since Dune 2000.
did you like Warcraft if so you will love this game.
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