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…
8-Bit Hordes is an indie developed by Petroglyph Games, released 12 August 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What 8-Bit Hordes is
8-Bit Hordes 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
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.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 25 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
8-Bit Hordes holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 45% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.6 GHz Dual Core Processor, 4 GB RAM and Nvidia Geforce GTS 250 or ATI Radeon HD 3870. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
8-Bit Hordes launched on 12 August 2016, within three weeks of No Man's Sky, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition. All of them reviewed better. 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: No Man's Sky, The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt - Complete Edition, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition.
Official trailer
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