8-Bit Hordes

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 is a strategy, indie and rts game developed and published by Petroglyph.
Released on August 12th 2016 is available only on Windows in 14 languages: English, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Hungarian, Polish, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Dutch, Romanian and Turkish.

It has received 524 reviews of which 427 were positive and 97 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 7.39€ on Steam and has a 50% discount.


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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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Dec. 2024
My wife said if this review gets 50 likes and 5 awards, she will buy a case of beer, guys help me out.
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Aug. 2024
This game is great. Simple, fun, well polished. Definitely worth buying. 10/10
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June 2024
a love letter to RTS games from 90' ..
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April 2024
I play this because I don't own Warcraft 3.
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Feb. 2024
the only thing i didn't like is that if you play 4 vs 4 with all AI set to difficulty level "insane", the game crashes mid game, always. Other than that, it's a pretty fun game. Really scratch the RTS itch.
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8-Bit Hordes
7.7
427
97
Online players
5
Developer
Petroglyph
Publisher
Petroglyph
Release 12 Aug 2016
Platforms
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