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A Blast From the Past! 8-Bit Armies is a retro Real-Time Strategy game for the PC.
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Based on
1941 reviews
- Country Compatibility:
- Languages:
- Developer:
- Petroglyph Games
- Publisher:
- SOEDESCO Publishing
- Release date:
- 22 April 2016
- Genre:
- Recent Steam reviews:
- Not specified
- All Steam reviews:
- Very Positive (1941)
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Game features
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Description
A Blast From the Past!
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:
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!
"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)
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)
Recommended system requirements
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*
- 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
User reviews
ixilthicilix
Recommended | 19 Jan 2026
19.9h played
I have been trying to get my son into RTS games so we could play together, as I loved playing C&C, Red Alert, and AoE2 (and others) when I was a kid. To him though, those games are unappealing and too old. The new
Helpful: 3
deutronium
Not recommended | 03 Oct 2025
1.8h played
Unbelievable boring and generic "campaign". No video sequences. Only one party. No real story or lore. You cannot make much tactical or even strategical decisions here, just send massive amounts of units. In normal
Helpful: 8
hungry hungry hobbit
Recommended | 23 May 2026
14.1h played
This is a streamlined RTS. It's simple, and that's a good thing. I'lll be playing this with people I want to introduce to RTS games. It doesn't overwhelm beginners and it's still fun for veterans.
Helpful: 0
PsychadelicLlama
Recommended | 18 Jul 2025
6.8h played
A simple, fun RTS game. Easy to pick up and put it down, for those of us who have more important things to do than get sweaty at a video game. Don't expect a good story. Embrace the simplicity and unit spam.
Helpful: 0
PrexMP3
Not recommended | 13 Jan 2026
9.7h played
A bare bones generic RTS that truly lives up to the CnC legacy...unfortunately. As a mature, reasonable adult, I'm able to appreciate that Command and Conquer, which I do love, is dated. That shouldn't come as a
Helpful: 4
scromblo
Not recommended | 07 Jul 2025
13 min played
Maybe it's just not for me, but I don't think it's a good RTS. - in some areas it's too basic, in others too restrictive, - you can build only one thing at a time, - expanding and getting more resource nodes is done in
Helpful: 9