8-Bit Armies
Overview
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.
SteamVery Positive (81%)
1,949 Steam user reviewsMetacritic69/100
Screenshots & media
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About the game
- Developer
- Petroglyph
- Publisher
- Petroglyph
- Released
- Apr 22, 2016
Description & review sources
- 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.
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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.
Initial release includes:
- 25 offline campaign missions
- 12 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
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!
More reviews from game journalists...
"Its biggest offering to the RTS genre is its brilliant retro design and vivid, colourful graphics coupled with easy-to-learn gameplay. For those intimidated by the complexity of RTS games, 8-Bit Armies is a great place to start."
- CGMagazine
"Simple and balanced game play make 8-bit Armies an indie game gem! I wasn’t kidding when I said that I can’t stop playing this game, it is that good!"
- Just Press Start
"I love the the game, and it is definitely worth buying." and... "It's a fun, fun game and I'm absolutely, absolutely loving it!"
- Worth A Buy (YouTube)
- Developer
- Petroglyph
- Publisher
- Petroglyph
- Released
- Apr 22, 2016
Ratings & review sources
SteamVery Positive (81%)
1,949 Steam user reviewsMetacritic69/100
System requirements
Features, requirements and screenshots describe the Steam PC version. Other stores and editions may differ.
Windows
Minimum
Minimum:- 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
Recommended
Recommended:- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: 2.6 GHz+ Quad Core Processor
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 550 Ti or AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
macOS — not supported
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Linux — not supported
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Accounts, launcher & DRM
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Features & game information
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Play modes
- Single-player
- Multi-player
- Online PvP
- LAN PvP
- Online Co-op
- LAN Co-op
Steam features
- Steam Achievements
- Steam Trading Cards
- Steam Cloud
- Steam Leaderboards
- Remote Play Together
- Family Sharing
Other features
- PvP
- Shared/Split Screen PvP
- Co-op
Controller & mod support
- Controller support
- Not specified
- Mod support
- Steam Workshop
- Includes level editor
Game details
- Genres
- Indie
- Simulation
- Strategy
- Developer
- Petroglyph
- Publisher
- Petroglyph
- Released
- Apr 22, 2016
- Content type
- game
- Operating systems
- windows
- Achievements
- 29
All community tags
Community tag votes
- Strategy159
- Simulation107
- Indie102
- RTS93
- Pixel Graphics72
- Multiplayer61
- Voxel46
- Co-op44
- Base-Building42
- War31
- Great Soundtrack23
- Action18
- Singleplayer13
- Retro10
Languages & audio
- English*
- German
- French
- Portuguese - Brazil
- Russian
- Simplified Chinese
- Hungarian
- Polish
- Italian
- Spanish - Spain
- Arabic
- Dutch
- Romanian
- Turkish
*languages with full audio support
Related editions & add-ons
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Sources, updates & publisher notice
- CheapShark Oct 12, 2026 15:37 UTC
- Steam Spy Oct 11, 2026 22:21 UTC
- Steam Store Oct 11, 2026 22:21 UTC
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Publisher notice
©2020 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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