Games like 8-Bit Hordes
If 8-Bit Hordes is your kind of game, the closest matches are 8-Bit Armies, 8-Bit Invaders! and Stonehearth — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its intuitive cc style ui, challenging and lighthearted. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About 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!
Players who liked 8-Bit Hordes also play
Steam players who put hours into 8-Bit Hordes also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
8-Bit Armies
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with 8-Bit Hordes.
Top pick for 8-Bit Hordes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
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.
8-Bit Invaders!
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a retro mood with 8-Bit Hordes.
Second-strongest match for 8-Bit Hordes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
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.
Stonehearth
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with 8-Bit Hordes.
Third-strongest match for 8-Bit Hordes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
Pioneer a living world full of warmth, heroism, and mystery. Help a small group of settlers build a home for themselves in a forgotten land. Establish a food supply, build shelter, defend your people, monitor their moods, and find a way to grow and expand, facing challenges at every step.
From the Depths
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with 8-Bit Hordes.
Ranked #4 for 8-Bit Hordes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.
9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with 8-Bit Hordes.
Ranked #5 for 8-Bit Hordes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
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.
StarMade
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with 8-Bit Hordes.
Ranked #6 for 8-Bit Hordes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
FortressCraft Evolved!
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with 8-Bit Hordes.
Ranked #7 for 8-Bit Hordes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Anno 1800
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with 8-Bit Hordes.
Ranked #8 for 8-Bit Hordes fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with 8-Bit Hordes.
Anno 1800™ – Lead the Industrial Revolution! Welcome to the dawn of the Industrial Age. The path you choose will define your world. Are you an innovator or an exploiter? A conqueror or a liberator? How the world remembers your name is up to you.
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Assassin's Creed® Syndicate
WHY THIS
Reviewers of 8-Bit Hordes cross-mention this title as a similar play.
London, 1868. Lead your underworld organization in the midst of the Industrial Revolution to break the corrupt stranglehold on the city in a visceral adventure filled with action, intrigue, and brutal combat.
SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Reviewers of 8-Bit Hordes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with 8-Bit Hordes.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
Northgard: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with 8-Bit Hordes.
Reviewers of 8-Bit Hordes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel
WHY THIS
Reviewers of 8-Bit Hordes cross-mention this title as a similar play.
At Thors Military Academy, Erebonia’s best learn everything from the art of war to liberal arts. First year Rean Schwarzer learns he’s been selected to join the controversial Class VII, and they’ll need to deal with more than just class warfare--they’ll need to safeguard their country from chaos.
Aircraft War
WHY THIS
Reviewers of 8-Bit Hordes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
Fight against enemy planes with the fun Aircraft War! Challenge your friends with single and double player modes. Conquer the sky, enjoy the victory!
Theme Park Simulator: Rollercoaster Paradise
WHY THIS
Reviewers of 8-Bit Hordes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with 8-Bit Hordes.
Theme Park Simulator is a physics simulation game in which you experience a wide array of different attractions. Ranging from rollercoasters to bumper cars, there’s a ride for everyone in Theme Park Simulator!
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with 8-Bit Hordes.
Reviewers of 8-Bit Hordes cross-mention this title as a similar play.
While imprisoned in Balduq, Adol is cursed and becomes a Monstrum. With his newfound powers, he must stop the Grimwald Nox from consuming the city.
守卫魔兽-Guardian of Warcraft
WHY THIS
Reviewers of 8-Bit Hordes cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
This is a summoning tower defense strategy game, with different abilities of monsters and traps, with different effects. the player will continue to upgrade while defending, Become stronger, and summoning more powerful monsters to resist the brave.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below 8-Bit Hordes at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under 8-Bit Hordes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with 8-Bit Hordes.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under 8-Bit Hordes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under 8-Bit Hordes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under 8-Bit Hordes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with 8-Bit Hordes.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under 8-Bit Hordes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under 8-Bit Hordes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under 8-Bit Hordes on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under 8-Bit Hordes on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with 8-Bit Hordes.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with 8-Bit Hordes.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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More from Petroglyph
Other recommendable Steam games by Petroglyph, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with 8-Bit Hordes.
Another title from Petroglyph, the studio behind 8-Bit Hordes. Shares Strategy with 8-Bit Hordes.
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a retro mood with 8-Bit Hordes.
Another title from Petroglyph, the studio behind 8-Bit Hordes. Shares Strategy with 8-Bit Hordes.
Command & Conquer and Red Alert are both remastered in 4K by the former Westwood Studios team members. Includes all 3 expansions, rebuilt multiplayer, a modernized UI, Map Editor, bonus footage gallery, and over 7 hours of remastered music.
The Great War: Western Front™
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with 8-Bit Hordes.
Another title from Petroglyph, the studio behind 8-Bit Hordes. Shares Strategy with 8-Bit Hordes.
The Great War: Western Front is the definitive WW1 strategy game. Play a deciding role in history with this real-time tactical experience as you take charge in the iconic Western Front from 1914 to 1919. Pick your faction and lead your forces to victory.
Grey Goo
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with 8-Bit Hordes.
Another title from Petroglyph, the studio behind 8-Bit Hordes. Shares Strategy with 8-Bit Hordes.
Fight for control of a frontier world. Gather resources, build your base, and command your forces in battle. Survive long enough to unleash your ultimate weapon - THE EPIC.
8-Bit Armies
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with 8-Bit Hordes.
Another title from Petroglyph, the studio behind 8-Bit Hordes. Shares Strategy and Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
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.
Conan Unconquered
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with 8-Bit Hordes.
Another title from Petroglyph, the studio behind 8-Bit Hordes. Shares Strategy with 8-Bit Hordes.
From the Command & Conquer veterans at Petroglyph comes the first ever survival RTS set in the savage world of Conan the Barbarian. Play solo or team up in multiplayer in Conan Unconquered’s action-packed co-op Mode where you build a shared stronghold and fend off the hordes together.
9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with 8-Bit Hordes.
Another title from Petroglyph, the studio behind 8-Bit Hordes. Shares Strategy and Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
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.
Forged Battalion
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with 8-Bit Hordes.
Another title from Petroglyph, the studio behind 8-Bit Hordes. Shares Strategy and Indie with 8-Bit Hordes.
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.
Frequently asked about 8-Bit Hordes
- Does 8-Bit Hordes work on Steam Deck?
- 8-Bit Hordes is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does 8-Bit Hordes cost?
- 8-Bit Hordes is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does 8-Bit Hordes have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — 8-Bit Hordes supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to 8-Bit Hordes?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside 8-Bit Hordes are 8-Bit Armies, 8-Bit Invaders!, Stonehearth.
- Who developed 8-Bit Hordes?
- 8-Bit Hordes was developed by Petroglyph.
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