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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…

22 April 2016

8-Bit Armies is an indie developed by Petroglyph Games, released 22 April 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What 8-Bit Armies is

8-Bit Armies is an indie game developed by Petroglyph Games and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GlyphX.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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, 10 co-op missions, multiplayer and skirmish modes.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

8-Bit Armies launched on 22 April 2016, within three weeks of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Doom, DOOM (2016) and Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Doom, DOOM (2016), Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition.

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When did 8-Bit Armies come out?
8-Bit Armies was released on 22 April 2016 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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