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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.
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!
About 8-Bit Hordes
- Released
- August 2016
- Developer
- Petroglyph Games
- Engine
- GlyphX
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Xbox One
Where to get it
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From the developers
Official announcements, newest first. Posted on Steam.
- Community Announcements9-Bit Armies in Full Release!We are thrilled to announce the full release of 9-Bit Armies, now available on PC! Dive into a fast-paced, retro-style real-time strategy (RTS) game that brings pixel-perfect mayhem to your screen. In 9-Bit Armies, you’ll command an army of blocky units, building bases, gathering resources, and unleashing chaos on your opponents. Whether you’re new to the RTS genre or a veteran strategist, the...
- Community AnnouncementsPetroglyph Steam Summer Sale 2024Lock and load in the Steam Summer Sale 2024! Looking for a slice of RTS action this summer? We are putting our first-party titles on sale for the holidays. From our newest title 9-Bit Armies, with the new Survival Mode game mode, to older titles like the previous 8-Bit games and Forged Battalion. We are also putting the soundtracks on sale, so if you've been wanting to add another Frank Klepack...
- Community Announcements9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far is now LIVE in EARLY ACCESSHello Commanders Get ready to build bases, blow up bridges and deliver blistering devastation to your foes in 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far. The sequel is finally here as we release in early access. Do not be fooled though, there is a lot to do and destroy in the game already with a 12-mission campaign with multiple objectives and co-op mode out of the box. There are versus modes with an all-new...
- Community Announcements8-Bit Hordes Community Update - 14th November 2023Kick the tires and light the fires! We are excited to announce a new set of updates for our 8-Bit series of RTS games (8-Bit Armies, 8-Bit Hordes, 8-Bit Invaders) out now. With feedback from the community we have hunted down bugs, tuned things up and even the virtuoso Frank Klepacki has provided three new music tracks which you can experience in-game as well as in the soundtrack DLC. Some of th...
- Community AnnouncementsANNOUNCING: 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far!Commanders, the wait is over. Introducing 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far - the thrilling sequel to the Real-Time Strategy game 8-Bit Armies! Venture into a world of pixelated warfare, expansive campaigns, engaging multiplayer, all in a fusion of battlefields. 🔹 Two Campaigns: Choose your side in a conflict spanning 30 missions. 🔹 Nautical Warfare: From stealthy submarines to adaptable amphibious...
- Community Announcements8-Bit Hordes Update #31 - 10/06/20We're back with a new update for the game! Over the last couple years we've been making improvements to our core RTS engine tech which has resulted in fixing a number of long-standing issues. With your help, we've retroactively applied those fixes to our 8-Bit Series which means a new update for you! As an added bonus, a new song has been added to each game which you can hear in-game and also s...
- Mods indexed
- 31
- Versions
- 0
- Newest tracked
- none yet
- Most disruptive update
- No breakage data for this game
Most downloaded
Measured from the source's own counts, summed across every release.
- HungryMountainThe mountain that eats all the mine carts!3.3k downloads
- Mountain FightFight to control this cold mountain island. (Hordes Version)2.9k downloads
- Battle of Middle-EarthInspired by lord of the rings Minas Tirith and Mordor made by Mr.Yo2.4k downloads
- Island warupdated Version of island war1.4k downloads
- Shepes' 4 Battle IslandsFight your friends and enemies' in this ffa arena. There are over 10 resource farms per island. FFA 2v2 map1.1k downloads
- Castle_DefenceA simple yet advanced map of Castle defence , a map where Air units hail supreme but tables can turn with a well composed army of ground and air units. Be careful not to leave your castle undefended while you attack because a swift flank can insue!. Defend you castle at all costs be make sure to...966 downloads
- The_Divide1V1 The path to victory is a narrow one. Can you overcome the divide to rule these lands? Each player has ample resources to quickly gain a booming economy. There is only one central path so beware of flyers and, flyers beware of turrets. Look for the 2v2/FFA version coming soon.731 downloads
- HytalIt's night time in the small continent of Hytal. Fight your way through the dark and use the street lights as your guides! Bewary of the night time thieves!714 downloads
- Battle for Middle Earth - RemasteredA polished, updated, rebalanced version of the original map by StriKeR of the same name. This map can be played from 1v1 to 4v4 with fully functional AI Improvments include - Better Spawn Placements with Large Scale Battles in Mind - Vastly Improved Texture Blending to Make the Map Look More Imme...658 downloads
- Alba ForestAlba forest is a 2v2 island set in the spring with a redish afternoon sunset colour showing in some of the still winter snow. This map does not feature opserver spawnpoints.646 downloads
- Castle423 downloads
- Pengiun map v2This map is a Pengiun410 downloads
- Tournament_duneFight in the dune universe, Who ever controls the Spice controls the world. can be played 2v2 random spawns and 1v1 random spawns. You can also FFA.309 downloads
- Basic Battle GroundsThis was my VERY FIRST map, I put it together in about 5 minutes so please do not hate on it.309 downloads
- Happy TreesFight on this simple map205 downloads
- Urban_CrossroadsManuver around tight roads and choke points.189 downloads
- Ueberleben V1.0Last Stand 2nd try (Hordes design) 2nd try (Armies design)164 downloads
- Ueberleben_Hordes_v2Great Last Stand 2nd try125 downloads
- Castle DungooThe Castle Dongoo is under Attack. Will it survive? Or will the Devil win this Fight.112 downloads
- Castle DefenseCastle Defense101 downloads
- AlphaClickbait With Cats... But No Rly Its Mi Forst Mop For Da "8-Bit Hordes" Gnome, So Be Genlte Wirt It!97 downloads
- Quarry On The HillThis was my second map I have ever made, I put it together in about 20 minutes so please do not hate on it to harshly. Leave any suggestions in the comments below.84 downloads
- Bad Neighbors8 players all within close proximity of each other must duke it out near this small town. Expect things to get violent pretty quickly. Players start in a ring around the edges of the map. There are 8 resource nodes, one for each player, and an extra resource node in the center. Lots of destructib...61 downloads
- dungeonmagmacompleteplay on this awful map59 downloads
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A mod is compiled against one version of a game. When the game updates, anything that reached into the parts that moved stops working, and it usually stops working silently rather than with a message that explains itself.
That is what the table above counts. It is not a guess: each row is a mod the community has reported as broken by that specific release. The number is a fair measure of how disruptive an update was, and it is the reason people delay updating a game they have modded heavily.
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Where does the compatibility data come from?
From the communities that maintain it in the open, not from guesswork. Each claim carries how it is known, so a reported breakage is never presented as though the author said it.
Why is a mod listed as broken when it works for me?
Compatibility depends on your exact game version and the rest of your load order. A mod marked as broken in one release may work fine on an older one, which is exactly why the version is recorded next to the claim rather than a bare yes or no.