8-Bit Armies
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.
- Price:$14.99
- Release Date:4/22/2016
- Franchise:Petroglyph Games
- Developer:Petroglyph
- Publisher:Petroglyph
- Last Updated:10/24/2025
- Steam App Id:427250
8-Bit Armies
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
- Steam Deck (Playable)
Steam Charts, Stats, and Live Player Count
At the moment, 8-Bit Armies has 4 concurrent players online and in-game. This is 92% lower than its previous all-time peak of 53 players achieved on 12/2/2023.
Review History Chart
Track historical review trends and overall ratings for 8-Bit Armies. It has received a total of 2,443 reviews on the Steam store and achieved a Player Score of 79 (Very Positive).
Community Hub Members & Followers Chart
Explore the cumulative breakdown of Steam community hub members for 8-Bit Armies and its growth over time. It currently has 20,952 followers on its community page.
8-Bit Armies Price
8-Bit Armies costs $14.99 in the Steam store as of 10/24/2025. It can be purchased as a standlone game or through a bundle like 8-Bit Complete Collection, 8-Bit Armies Complete Edition, or 2025 Petroglyph Mega-Pack! which offer a discount off the game's base price.
Explore the price history chart below to track historical price changes and other pricing stats for 8-Bit Armies.
About 8-Bit Armies
8-Bit Armies is an Indie, Simulation, and Strategy game developed by Petroglyph. On 4/22/2016, it was released on the Steam Store by Petroglyph.
Players have rated 8-Bit Armies as "Very Positive" out of 2,443 total reviews on the Steam Store. These are split between 1,996 positive reviews and 447 negative reviews — an overall 82% positive review rating. Additionally, 8-Bit Armies has earned a metascore of 69 on Metacritic.
It can be played and ran on Windows systems. At the moment, it is possible to play 8-Bit Armies on the Steam Deck but some functionaliy may not be fully supported.
It also supports 14 languanges in-game including English, German, French, Portuguese-Brazil, and Russian. Each language comes with varying levels of support for the in-game interface, audio, and fully translated subtitles.
According to Steam’s category system, 8-Bit Armies supports the following features:
- Single-player
- Co-op
- Steam Cloud
- Family Sharing
- Steam Achievements
- PvP
- Shared/Split Screen PvP
- Multi-player
- Includes level editor
- Steam Leaderboards
- Remote Play Together
- Steam Trading Cards
- Steam Workshop
- Online Co-op
- Online PvP
- LAN Co-op
- LAN PvP
From the Steam community, 8-Bit Armies has been tagged with the following user tags:
- Voxel
- Great Soundtrack
- Multiplayer
- War
- Pixel Graphics
- Co-op
- RTS
- Retro
- Simulation
- Base Building
- Strategy
- Indie
- Action
- Singleplayer
Media & Sceenshots
Watch the featured video for 8-Bit Armies and see the latest screenshots from the Steam Store.
DLC & Related Apps
8-Bit Armies is referenced by 2 other related apps in the Steam Store.
| Image | Name | Type | Release Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 8-Bit Armies - Soundtrack | Music | 4/22/2016 | View |
 | 8-Bit Armies - Guardians Campaign | DLC | 6/3/2016 | View |
Related Bundles
8-Bit Armies is included in 3 bundles in the Steam Store.
| Image | Name | Apps | Packages | Price | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 8-Bit Complete Collection | 7 | 7 | $54.83 | View |
 | 8-Bit Armies Complete Edition | 3 | 3 | $20.67 | View |
 | 2025 Petroglyph Mega-Pack! | 13 | 13 | $84.83 | View |
Related Packages
8-Bit Armies is referenced by 1 package in the Steam Store.
| Name | Price | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| 8-Bit Armies | $7.49 | View |
Supported Languages
8-Bit Armies is available in 14 different languages with varying levels of support for the in-game interface, audio, and fully translated subtitles.
| Name | Interface | Audio | Subtitles |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| German | Yes | No | Yes |
| French | Yes | No | Yes |
| Portuguese-Brazil | Yes | No | Yes |
| Russian | Yes | No | Yes |
| Chinese (Simplified) | Yes | No | Yes |
| Hungarian | Yes | No | Yes |
| Polish | Yes | No | Yes |
| Italian | Yes | No | Yes |
| Spanish (Spain) | Yes | No | Yes |
Frequently Asked Questions
Soures & References
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8-Bit Armies data has been sourced from:
- Valve Corporation. (2025, October 24). 8-Bit Armies on Steam. Steam Store. https://store.steampowered.com/app/427250
- Valve Corporation. (2025, October 24). 8-Bit Armies. Steam Community Hub. https://steamcommunity.com/app/427250
- Metacritic. (2025, October 24). 8-Bit Armies for PC Reviews. Metacritic. https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/8-bit-armies