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...
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.
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.
I'm a casual PC gamer that would have liked this game if its unit management were better: you can do the simplest unit management (set a patrol, create groups) but you can't do things like selecting idle units -you'll find yourself scouring the map to find unused units you can send to the front a lot.
The AI is a simplistic -if you don't set a patrol, your units will passively watch other units be destroyed unless they're attacked themselves. If you think leaving a few units behind is protection, think again -only turrets actively attack enemies.
The manual is in-game which is nice, but it doesn't cover everything the game can do; there's a tutorial.
There's no story or characters, and just a single faction with 25 missions; other factions are available as DLC. Althought they do their best to vary it, the lack of story and characters, with the irrelevance of strategy, means you'll get bored quickly.
I never multiplay so I couldn't test, but other reviews mention lack of multiplay support (there's a multiplay menu, btw); I did notice that when creating a LAN game it took my username from GOG Galaxy, so I'm thinking multiplayer requires GOG Galaxy and probably you can't crossplay, which happens on other GOG games. A pity, since multiplay is the only reason I'd recommend this. It would also break the "No DRM" GOG promise. If you tested multiplay, please be specific on your review on the problems you had (or didn't have).
Other than refineries, that create money out of oil, it doesn't matter where you build. Building turrets enlarges your territory, which allows you to build refineries nearer the neutral oil fields that are the only resource in the game. As for strategy, just make lots of units and bring them on. I bought this on sale and got a few hours out of it, so I don't regret my purchase, but after six or so missions I uninstalled. Frankly, I stopped caring as soon as I thought I had enough for a review.
Cool thing: vehicles can crush infantry.
like the people who make this game said its great for begginer RTS people and people who just want fun, ive always been into RTS games but the last one i play was AOE 2, this game make RTS games fun and engaging for all ages, hope to s ee more from this company as i own 8 bit hordes aswell which is like WC3 but more fun :)
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