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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 features offline single-player missions, two-player cooperative missions, AI skirmish mode, and Player-vs-Player Multiplayer modes running on dedicated game servers.

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Steam User 5790STEAMRecommended

Good game but buy on sale, traditonal rts game but with no cutscenes

Feb 1, 2026·8h·Verified

Steam User 4843STEAMRecommended

8-Bit Hordes 8/10
The base gameplay in Hordes is the same as the rest of Petroglyph's "8-bit" line, so expect to play something that feels loosely like Command and Conquer, but this time with a bit of WarCraft mixed in. Unfortunately a lot of the issues with pathfinding, destroying terrain, workers going insane, etc, do persist as well. The positives also carry over. For a lower budget game, the micro in more open spaces works fine, hotkeying through big deathballs works well, and the C&C type UI is extremely intuitive, especially for newer players.

The campaign takes place after 8-Bit armies, and has some of the same drawbacks(lack of production value, no real story, no cutscenes, but there are a lot of scenarios to play through, and trying for 3 stars on all the missions is pretty engaging, and gave me good reason to go back and retry earlier levels. The benefits from 3 staring the missions are ridiculously overpowering, however, for some missions like the finale of the Lightbringer(humans) campaign, it's probably worth it. If you're newer to RTS games, I would like to note that there isn't really a perceptible difference between normal and hard difficulty. Getting bronze on most missions is very easy, but even during a few missions on the standard difficulty for the Lightbringers, you'll hit inconsistent challenge spikes that aren't mitigated by dropping difficulty. You'll be able to finish everything in the game without issue, just know that things might get grindy or attritional at times, and not in the best way. For the most part, though, the missions are good.

Jan 8, 2026·31h·6·Verified

Steam User 2223STEAMNot recommended

Save your money!

The game is broken.

Dec 26, 2025·2h·Verified

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