8-Bit Armies
Skip · Strategy · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 49, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 8.3h
- Value
- $1.81/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia Geforce GTS 250 or ATI Radeon HD 3870, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.49. That was December 2023. 109 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 16 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Call to Arms ($3.74, scores 56) beats it on value, while it beats Forged Battalion ($9.99, scores 3).
Critics scored it 69. Players sit 12 points higher at 81 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
6 of the 410 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 410 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 21 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 8.3 hours; clearing it takes 29, which is 3.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
22% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
2 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 14:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
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 strategy games are generally very complex, clearly targeting a more mature audience. I couldn't figure out how to get him into the genre. 8-bit armies was the bridge. Its a modern feel and art style, and I...
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Cite this score
8-Bit Armies scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/427250/8-bit-armiesReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 23, price as of Oct 1.
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