8-Bit Hordes

View on Steam

8-Bit Hordes

Short description

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!

Developer
Petroglyph
Publisher
Petroglyph
Release
Fri, Aug 12, 2016
Price
$14.99
$7.49
50%
Reviews
485
Positive
82%
Followers
8,862
Owners (estimated)
50K – 100K
Concurrent players
2
Genres
Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Features
Multi-player, PvP, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Co-op, Online Co-op, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Workshop, Steam Leaderboards, Includes level editor, Remote Play Together
Tags
Strategy Indie RTS Simulation Pixel Graphics Multiplayer Voxel Fantasy Building Sandbox Horror
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$297ksomewhere between $132k and $1.4m · roughly 10K–100K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range disagree, so the band is widened to cover both rather than picking a favourite. Multiplied by $13.61, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $14.99 launch price. That is 9% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

Waiting for 8-Bit Hordes to get cheaper? Name your price and we will email you when it gets there.

Watch this game Free account, no card. Already have one?

History

12 data points since Aug 6, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$294k → ~$297k
Reviews 480 → 485
Followers 8,868 → 8,862
Concurrent players 2 → 2
Price $14.99 → $7.49
Positive reviews 81.7% → 81.9%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 288 further data points reach back to Aug 1, 2016 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $5.09 on Oct 26, 2017.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around 8-Bit Hordes is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Strategy + Indie + RTS

Combinations under 15 games are left out to reduce the influence of small samples. The games below share those tags and are free to browse.

Unlock every combination See the radar first →

Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with 8-Bit Hordes. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
8-Bit Armies 8-Bit Armies Petroglyph 8 titles 6 same tags $14.99
$7.49
50%
1,942 81% Fri, Apr 22, 2016 $1.2m
$522k – $6.7m
8-Bit Invaders! 8-Bit Invaders! Petroglyph 8 titles 6 same tags $14.99 404 83% Fri, Dec 16, 2016 $241k
$107k – $1.3m
Tooth and Tail Tooth and Tail Pocketwatch Games 5 titles 5 − Simulation + Action $19.99 2,888 83% Tue, Sep 12, 2017 $3.7m
$3.7m – $4.2m
Plague Inc: Evolved Plague Inc: Evolved Ndemic Creations 4 titles 4 − RTS − Pixel Graphics + Outbreak Sim + Singleplayer $14.99 59,684 94% Thu, Feb 18, 2016 $25.6m
$15.3m – $25.6m
Stronghold Crusader 2 Stronghold Crusader 2 Firefly Studios 17 titles 4 − Indie − Pixel Graphics + Medieval + City Builder $39.99 12,658 74% Mon, Sep 22, 2014 $33m
$33m – $33.4m

There are more like this. Your plan shows the 5 closest neighbours; Plus and Pro show up to 100 — enough to see the shape of a niche instead of a sample of it.

See the full neighbourhood Or start from the radar →