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8-bit Armies

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3.8/5

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3.8

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8-bit Armies
Description
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...
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3.8/5

( 33 Reviews )

3.8

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2016, Petroglyph Games, ...
System requirements
Windows Vista SP2 / 7 / 8 / 10, 2.6 GHz Dual Core, 4 GB RAM, Nvidia Geforce GTS 250 or ATI Radeon HD...
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8-bit Armies - Guardians Campaign, 8-bit Armies Soundtrack
Time to beat
8 hMain
17.5 h Main + Sides
31 h Completionist
10.5 h All Styles
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Description
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.

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!
  • 25 offline campaign missions.
  • 10 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.

©2016 Petroglyph Games, Inc. All rights reserved. All other intangible assets embodied in or arising from this work, including, without limitation, all intellectual property in and to the marks 8-BIT ARMIES™, GLYPHX®, PETROGLYPH®, the corresponding design(s) and/or logo(s), software, or other intangible assets of whatsoever nature are owned by Petroglyph Games, Inc. Any reproduction or distribution in any form or by any means, without the express written consent of Petroglyph Games, Inc. is strictly prohibited.

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Time to beat
8 hMain
17.5 h Main + Sides
31 h Completionist
10.5 h All Styles
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Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
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Size:
1.6 GB

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Posted on: July 1, 2020

Filo_01

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Games: 116 Reviews: 2

Good game but bad optimization

This is a nice RTS game, without a storyline. The big problems are in the skirmish maps. With 8 factions my PC start to heating (running the first Crysis doens't make this effect!!) and after a while, with a lot of troups, the game starts to go slow and slow. After about 10 minuts it takes 5-10 seconds to run 1 second in game!!! Devs must release an update in order to optimize better the game or this mode is unplayable!!


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Posted on: April 27, 2017

Beaumont81

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Games: 583 Reviews: 20

Lazy mission design

At first this game is great. A nostalgic trip right down the Command & Conquer memory lane. I knew beforehand that there was no real story to speak of and that was fine with me. But after a few missions you realize how lazy and uninspired the mission design really is. It is always "destroy x headquarters" or "kill everything" on the same maps over and over again. No variation. And the only challenge comes from the enemies numbers ore unfair advantages (nuke-silos anyone?). Maybe skirmish or multiplayer are descent. I dont't know. Never tried it and at this point I don't care any more.


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Posted on: August 28, 2016

zack3d

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Games: 79 Reviews: 3

Garbage

This game is atrocious in every sense of the word. Another trashy "retro styled" game that will never get played in my library. Lan not functional "Why include it?". We had better luck connecting together playing Warcraft orcs and humans than this garbage at our lan party. Looking past the shoddy lan support this game is like a basic vanilla ice cream cone. How can a game get this much praise for such minimal gameplay?


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Posted on: January 23, 2025

GordonFJ

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Games: Reviews: 8

Performance...

This is a bespoke game engine as far as I can tell. And on Linux with my Core i5 2500k with GTX 1070Ti - the performance suffered when moving the camera around the 2nd level with all of the city details. Both in dedicated fullscreen as well as borderless fullscreen. Up until then it was fine, but on that level it became a slideshow and really I just uninstalled at that point. Game is a little generic and the voxel style graphics don't seem to do enough to win me over. No multiplayer servers - if that is your thing. They vanished not too long after release on Steam it appears.


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Posted on: April 23, 2016

KomodoC

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Games: 491 Reviews: 15

Very good fast real time strategy game

8-Bit Armies is cool, sleek design, simple and easy to read graphics, tight gameplay. In other words, a must for every C&C style real time strategy fan. There's one big let down, though, like another reviewer pointed out: there's no LAN multiplayer, which is annoying as heck. Really hoping they'll add it in the future.


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