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

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 2,415 reviews of which 1,979 were positive and 436 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 4.60€ on Instant Gaming.


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System requirements

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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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Feb. 2025
g'old gameplay, good visual style and awesome music! Highly recommend to at least try.
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Dec. 2024
pretty straightforward on gameplay. its a good thing if you need something to occupy your time while something else is downloading
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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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8-Bit Armies
7.9
1,979
436
Online players
3
Developer
Petroglyph
Publisher
Petroglyph
Release 22 Apr 2016
Platforms
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