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.
8-Bit Hordes includes all the following:
8-Bit Hordes is for anyone that enjoys RTS games but felt overwhelmed by complicated game mechanics and mysterious unit controls. With hours of solo and co-op gameplay included, there’s something here for everyone!
8-Bit Hordes Key Features:
1, 2 Factions – The Dark Orcs and their Undead allies versus those annoyingly cheery Humans, Dwarves and Elves of the Lightbringers.
2, 24 offline campaign missions
3, 12 co-op missions to play with your friendly fiends
4, 10 multiplayer/skirmish maps that support up to 8 trolls online
5, Devious AI opponents with multiple difficulty options to play with cooperatively or destroy
6, Classic Base-Building mechanics let you construct the ultimate lair from which to launch attacks against your foes
7, Destructible environments on maps ranging from the underworld to cemeteries and haunted forests
8, A fun and friendly art style even the forever cursed would enjoy
9, Full interoperability with 8-Bit Armies’ factions and maps providing endless crossover combat opportunities
10, An awesome new soundtrack by Frank Klepacki
| Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Duo E4700 2.6GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5400+ | Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66GHz / AMD Phenom II X4 20 |
| CPU SPEED | 2.6 GHz Dual Core Processor | 2.6 GHz+ Quad Core Processor |
| VRAM | 512 MB | 1 GB |
| RAM | 4 GB | 6 GB |
| OS | Win Vista 32 | Win 7 64 |
| Graphics Card | nVidia GeForce GTS 250 / AMD Radeon HD 3870 | nVidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti / AMD Radeon HD 6850 |
| Direct X | DX 11 | DX 11 |
| SOUND CARD | DirectX Compatible | DirectX Compatible |
| HDD Space | 2 GB | 2 GB |
| Game Analysis | 8-bit Hordes is a game with retro style graphics. As such it only requires a 4 year old mid range graphics cards and any quad core processor coupled with 4GB of RAM for smooth gameplay. 8-Bit Hordes is the follow-up title to the Real-Time Arcade/Strategy game 8-Bit Armies. With a colorful, blocky voxel art style, 8-Bit Hordes is a fun take on the fantasy RTS genre which is easy to learn and play yet fun for players of all skill levels. | |
| High FPS | 200+ FPS ( GTX 1060 ) | |
| Optimization Score | 6.7 | |
