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Exciting News: 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far is Now Fully Released on PC!

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 accessible controls and streamlined mechanics ensure that everyone can jump into the fun, while the depth of the gameplay will keep you coming back for more.

The game features a wide variety of game modes to suit all types of players. Solo players can enjoy a campaign filled with intense battles and challenging AI opponents, while multiplayer enthusiasts will relish the chance to take on friends and foes alike in online skirmishes. With the ability to customize armies and choose from a range of units—from infantry and tanks to powerful air strikes—each match feels unique and full of strategic possibilities. Plus, the destructible environments add an extra layer of tactical depth, allowing you to carve your own path to victory.

One of the most exciting aspects of 9-Bit Armies is its nostalgic 8-bit inspired art style blended with modern gameplay. The vibrant, blocky graphics bring a delightful retro charm to each battlefield, while the energetic soundtrack keeps the adrenaline pumping during every clash. Whether you’re building your base from scratch or leading an all-out assault, 9-Bit Armies delivers fast, fun, and frantic gameplay that will keep you hooked. Grab your copy today and lead your blocky battalion to victory!

Lock 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 Klepacki album to your library now is a great time to do so!

Check them out all the sales below.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1439750/

Unleash voxel warfare in 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far. Lead a modern military, build bases, unlock units, and attack in all-out war. Engage on land, sea and air in over two dozen missions, online skirmishes, or co-op. Easy to learn, a challenge to master.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/427250/

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.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/497850/

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!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/531680/

8-Bit Invaders! is a fast-paced, retro Real-Time Strategy game for the PC. Control the military might of the Galactic Marine Corps or Invade with the devastating power of the Cranioids! Mine, Build, and Fight your way to victory! Conquering the Multiverse was never so easy.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/686260/

Customize your unique faction in a new take on real-time strategy as you fight in a variety of skirmish, solo, and multiplayer battles.  You are not only a commander, but also an engineer – so you have ultimate control over your faction’s units, factories, superweapons and economy.

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 AI, daily challenges and matchmaking multiplayer for our more competitive players.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1439750/9Bit_Armies_A_Bit_Too_Far/



We have checked with command and received clearance to release the living roadmap. This is a very sensitive document and as you might expect subject to change depending on the battlefield conditions out there. As we all know, no plan survives first contact with the enemy.





We will be actively watching everywhere but the best place to reach out and share your thoughts, get help and find others to play with is our discord server.

https://discord.gg/petroglyph

See you out there commanders!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/39075/9Bit_Armies__A_Few_Bits_More/

Kick 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 the standout changes we have made include fixing up the exploit that allowed players to see when a resource node was being used. Some changes to the Gremlin and Heavy Drone. As well as several fixes that should smooth out the remaining hiccups some players were experiencing.

Check out the changelog below for details:

[h2]New Tracks[/h2] - "8-Bit Funk" - (Armies)
- "Sorcerer's Ambush" - (Hordes)
- "Bug Hunt" - (Invaders)

- Replaced News Cranioid with more current news about new game (9-Bit Armies!) coming out.
- Updated leaderboard links to include only those that are actively supported.

- Gremlin (Marines):
- Area-effect radius of heal doubled to 100 (was 50).

- Heavy Drone (Guardians):
- MG weapon casting seconds reduced to 0 (was 0.3)
- Reduced damage per shot to 2 (was 3)
- These changes together increase base DPS for MG weapon to 10 (was 6)
- Rocket weapon cooldown reduced to 2.2 seconds (was 2.7)
- Rocket base damage increased to 6 (was 5)
- These changes together increase base DPS for Rocket weapon to 7.27 (was 5.26)

- Improved/Fixed very long startup and load times that could occur randomly.
- Fixed a bug that automatically selected the Intel integrated graphics over an Nvidia device on some laptops.
- Fixed a rendering slowdown related to particles.
- Fixed a crash that could happen following a large number of weapon impacts on terrain.
- Fixing issue in which Hordes harvester was misnamed in German and was also using French translation.
- Fixed bug in which the Orbital Cannon superweapon alarm is repeated continuously if destroyed just before firing.
- Fixed hard-coded text in the tooltips for Units and Structures which appeared in English no matter which language was selected.
- Fixed animation issue around resource nodes. Resource nodes will no longer animate (giving away harvester locations) when under fog of war.

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 units, rule the waves and control the map.
🔹 Play With Friends: Conquer the campaign in Co-Op or join against others in huge maps supporting up to 8 armies.
🔹 Classic Base-Building: Wage war against unrelenting enemies whilst building your base to adapt and overcome.
🔹 Blast It All To Bits: Destructible environments on a wide variety of maps where you can destroy cities, rebuild bridges, and enter the fray on land, sea, and air.
🔹 More Pixels, More Fun: Coming from 8 Bit Armies? Discover new units, new abilities and bigger maps!
🔹 Mod Support: Customize your game with community made maps, units, and game rules! You can even create whole new scenarios and game modes to play and share with others!
🔹 A Legendary Legacy: From the same team that brought you RTS classics such as Star Wars: Empire at War™ , Universe at War™, Grey Goo™, and the Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection!