Games Like 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.

Why similar: RTS 36.5%, Strategy 28.6%, Voxel 10.7% ★, Simulation 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%

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.

Why similar: RTS 38.4%, Strategy 23.7%, Voxel 12.4% ★, Simulation 9.1%, Multiplayer 6.1%

Circle Empires is a fresh take on the RTS genre, featuring a fast-paced approach to conquering the world.

Why similar: RTS 47.5%, Strategy 37.1%, Indie 8.3%, Multiplayer 3.9%, Fantasy 3.2%

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.

Why similar: RTS 51.1%, Voxel 26.8% ★, Strategy 22.1%

Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons. Design and build your own castles, expand your territory in a vast landscape and defend your Bricktrons against onslaughts of hostile creatures.

Why similar: Strategy 35.7%, RTS 23.1%, Building 13.7%, Voxel 9.7% ★, Multiplayer 9.1%

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.

Why similar: RTS 45.2%, Strategy 36.7%, Simulation 7.1%, Multiplayer 6.3%, Indie 2.7%

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

Why similar: Strategy 53.7%, Simulation 19.5%, Pixel Graphics 18.1%, Indie 8.7%

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.

Why similar: RTS 55.9%, Strategy 25.9%, Simulation 9.4%, Multiplayer 4.4%, Indie 4.4%

Little Kingdom RTS is an indie real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Gather resources, build settlements, raise walls, and grow your small kingdom. Command an army of knights, archers, and mages to fight off rival kingdoms, orcs, and undead.

Why similar: RTS 49.6%, Strategy 24%, Simulation 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%, Building 5.3%

Lead the revolution with an army of flamethrowing Boars, mustard gas-lobbing Skunks, and paratrooper-puking Owls. Tooth and Tail is a Real-Time-Strategy game featuring Single Player, Online Competitive Play, Split Screen, Replays, and more. Build a base, lead your army, eat your enemies!

Why similar: RTS 53.4%, Strategy 27.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%, Multiplayer 7.4%, Indie 4.4%

{{An RTS inspired by the classics of the past!}} Making up for it's subpar retro graphics with fun gameplay and modern multi-threaded tech enabling huge battles to run smooth... Featuring singleplayer challenges, skirmish, sandbox, 10-player multiplayer & workshop modding.

Why similar: RTS 64.5%, Strategy 23%, Multiplayer 6%, Pixel Graphics 3.6%, Indie 2.9%

Unleash your creativity and strategic prowess in Forts, the exhilarating physics-based RTS! Design, construct, and customize imposing fortresses, bristling with devastating firepower, and blast your opponent’s buildings to rubble!

Why similar: Strategy 45%, Multiplayer 20.4%, Building 16.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%, Indie 7.6%

Armor Clash is an RTS game of modern warfare, containing classic features like base building, unit training etc. Players can pick modern armors such as M1A2, T-14 to form identical legions. With realistic effects and fast paced battle, players will enjoy commanding their armored forces to break down the enemy.

Why similar: RTS 51.5%, Strategy 28.9%, Simulation 12.5%, Indie 7.1%

Go back to the awesome glory days of Real-Time Strategy games. Crush Your Enemies has everything you love of the genre: Planning, choosing different types of units, managing resources, taking enemy territory and outwitting your opponent with the ingenious formations of your men.

Why similar: RTS 50.9%, Strategy 36.3%, Indie 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 3.9%

An RTS-Roguelike hybrid with auto-battling troops. Master building placement, swarm your enemies, and smash their defenses with unit-commander combos!

Why similar: RTS 64.2%, Strategy 24.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%, Fantasy 4.2%, Indie 1%

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Strategy 30.6%, RTS 18.5%, Voxel 16.6% ★, Multiplayer 16%, Building 14.4%

An intense real-time strategy game set in a dark fantasy world of Orcs, Elves and Dragons. Kingdom Wars 2 combines the best of Zombie survival and crafting with complex fast-paced city building. Fight massive siege battles that turn beautiful landscapes into gory blood-soaked battlefields.

Why similar: RTS 51.9%, Strategy 24.5%, Simulation 9.6%, Building 9.3%, Fantasy 4.7%

Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?

Why similar: RTS 59.2%, Strategy 27.3%, Simulation 13.5%

Experience building your own village with different races in a fantasy world! Produce more villagers for various production tasks and train more guards to resist waves of demonic attacks. Plan the production of supplies to create more powerful equipment for the guards to wear.

Why similar: Strategy 32.5%, RTS 27.2%, Simulation 16.6%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Building 7.2%

In Mushroom Wars 2, enemy tribes of feisty mushroom creatures face off in short but fierce RTS battles. Step into the shoes of a fearless Mushroom Commander, choose a hero to lead your army, and take control of the battlefield in a variety of multiplayer modes or challenging story campaign.

Why similar: RTS 49.8%, Strategy 35.3%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Indie 4.8%

The Scouring is an RTS with fast pace, high attention to detail and next generation experience. Lead humans or orcs in a Classic Mode or use one of powerful Heroes to fight for victory! Play alone or with friends. Use our modding tools to create maps and custom game modes! Join The Scouring!

Why similar: RTS 52%, Strategy 23.2%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Building 9.2%, Fantasy 5.4%

Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Why similar: Strategy 39.1%, Building 25%, Simulation 13.1%, Multiplayer 11.5%, Indie 7.6%

Armor Clash 3 is an old-school modern warfare RTS game with base building and navies. There are 3 factions with unique units, buildings and technology systems. There are both skirmish and challenge modes. The battle is fast-paced, with realistic graphics and physical effects, and the performance is also optimized.

Why similar: Strategy 38.7%, RTS 35.4%, Simulation 16.9%, Indie 9%

CIRCLE EMPIRES returns! Expand your empire, circle by circle, in this fast-paced follow-up to the hit RTS. Gather resources, build armies, and defeat bosses (or your friends) in a world that changes with every game. With unique units and biomes, it's an addictive battle of wits and tactics.

Why similar: RTS 69.9%, Strategy 30.1%

Soldier to the assault! Deploy your troops and destroy the enemy army!

Why similar: Strategy 42.6%, Simulation 22.3%, Voxel 17.5% ★, Indie 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%

Gather resources, craft weapons, and build a castle. Then defend your castle against monsters who will try to siege, sap, and smash their way in. All in a procedurally generated 3D block world that allows for extensive crafting and total construction and destruction of the terrain.

Why similar: Strategy 48.9%, Simulation 25.1%, Indie 13.4%, Building 8.9%, Fantasy 3.7%

Phoenix Hope is a pixel art 2D real-time, side-view strategy game in which you must develop your colony during the day and repel waves of monsters at night.

Why similar: RTS 35.3%, Strategy 26%, Simulation 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%, Building 6.5%

A fast turn-based strategy RPG with real-time combat. Develop your cities and armies, level up your heroes to gain new, powerful spells and skills, and explore the wonders and dangers of the procedurally generated maps as you aim to conquer your enemies before they do the same to you.

Why similar: Strategy 49.3%, Multiplayer 20.2%, Pixel Graphics 19.4%, Fantasy 11.1%

Here Comes the Swarm is a survival RTS with a pause button! Create your strategy, build, manage, and defend your settlements at your own pace. Take the fight to the hive mind and lead expeditions to deliver a deadly blow and eradicate your foes. Will you reclaim Ulora from the relentless Swarm?

Why similar: RTS 56.1%, Strategy 28.1%, Simulation 11.6%, Fantasy 4.2%

Pixel strategy that combines real-time and turn-based gameplay. 17 factions from vampire queens to mechanical golems.

Why similar: Strategy 68.3%, Indie 17.6%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%

Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead

Why similar: RTS 39.3%, Indie 36.8%, Simulation 18.6%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%

Andalia is a fantasy real-time strategy game (RTS) with a diverse range of civilisations, resources and environments. Build up your town and lead your forces into war against enemy players. Alternatively you may construct a monument and hold it long enough to reach victory.

Why similar: RTS 58.4%, Strategy 23.6%, Multiplayer 11.1%, Fantasy 5.9%, Indie 0.9%

Defend, Attack, Survive! Build up your base and defeat the zombies with this unique combination of tower defense, base building and supply chain management. Now with multiplayer, mods and loads of new content!

Why similar: RTS 47.6%, Strategy 33.6%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Indie 7.1%

From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.

Why similar: RTS 41.4%, Strategy 24.3%, Simulation 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, Building 7.9%

Farm management simulation game! Create the most awesome farm!

Why similar: Strategy 48.5%, Simulation 26.3%, Pixel Graphics 14.6%, Building 9.1%, Indie 1.5%

In this fast-paced multiplayer RTS, you and your friends will take control of your own tiny kingdoms and conquer a world made of circles. Each one is overflowing with enemies to fight, monsters to hunt and loot to hoard – but watch out... Friends can quickly become rivals!

Why similar: RTS 51.3%, Strategy 28.7%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Fantasy 6.6%

Lead your hive to victory in 'Buggos', an RTS Auto Battler! Customize your swarm with 120+ evolutions and conquer humanity. Strategy meets bug chaos!

Why similar: RTS 42.5%, Strategy 27.1%, Simulation 12.8%, Building 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

Armor Clash II is an old-school RTS game, with classic features like base building, modern armors and navies etc. 2 factions and sub-factions for each one, from high tech stealth destroyers to hardcore battleships. In Skirmishes players build base from the start, while in the Random Generated Mission, fast paced combats start immediately.

Why similar: RTS 44.2%, Strategy 38.2%, Simulation 17.6%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Strategy 54.3%, Simulation 26.1%, Building 19.6%

Command your elven army and defend mystical lands from sea serpents, evil sorcerers, and wave after wave of gnoll tribesman, all with the help of brand-spankin’ new towers, heroes, and spells to fend off every last baddie.

Why similar: Strategy 52.9%, Building 16.7%, Pixel Graphics 12.2%, Indie 9.3%, Fantasy 8.9%

After Long Night is a sandbox survival RTS. Build and fortify your base, scavenge every corner for vital resources, craft deadly weapons, and raise a militia to fight off relentless zombie hordes that strike every night. In this world, scavenging isn't just survival—it's strategy, power and war.

Why similar: RTS 55.5%, Strategy 26.4%, Simulation 9.8%, Building 8.3%

Take command of mighty Vikings, sly Persians or brutish Demons! Destroy your opponent’s base while defending your own in this action-packed side-scrolling RTS!

Why similar: Strategy 42.8%, RTS 38.5%, Indie 9.4%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Fantasy 2.7%

Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.

Why similar: RTS 50.7%, Strategy 34.6%, Building 8%, Pixel Graphics 4.1%, Fantasy 2.6%

War Party is a strategy game where you enter a prehistoric world of Dinosaurs, Cavemen and Magic! Build up your chosen faction, gather resources, explore the land and command them against enemy tribes and wildlife! Will your story be about Life, Death or Balance? Can you survive?

Why similar: RTS 60.6%, Strategy 28.4%, Multiplayer 7.6%, Fantasy 3.5%

Cossacks 3 is the return of RTS classics. Obtain resources, build cities and research technologies while taking command of great armies, crushing enemies in grand historical warfares on land and sea!

Why similar: RTS 54.9%, Strategy 35.3%, Multiplayer 9.8%

Return of the Classic, now remastered! Battle Realms is a fantasy RTS inspired by the stories told in martial- arts movies and oriental mythology. Develop your peasants into a highly trained and deadly efficient clan of warriors who are ready to die with your name on their lips.

Why similar: RTS 54%, Strategy 38.5%, Multiplayer 5.3%, Fantasy 2.2%

Here is Scarecropia! Lead at most 400 people to build a settlement. Arm your village to fight against the Goblin army, or invest limited resources in yourself to become unparalleled! Take every cost to survive!

Why similar: RTS 50.6%, Strategy 22.2%, Simulation 10.1%, Building 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: RTS 49.5%, Strategy 27.1%, Simulation 13.3%, Building 10.1%

Build, manage and defend your medieval castle in this crazy sidescroller RTS game. Build walls, towers and traps to protect your fortress from enemy sieges before launching your own. Command powerful siege weapons and design the perfect strategy to take back the empire.

Why similar: RTS 54.8%, Strategy 24%, Building 8.5%, Simulation 8.5%, Fantasy 4.3%

Act of Aggression – Reboot Edition brings the techno-thriller RTS game Act of Aggression to a higher level. The Reboot Edition offers a full gameplay overhaul in skirmish mode against the AI and in your multiplayer battles.

Why similar: RTS 62.5%, Strategy 29.4%, Multiplayer 6.9%, Indie 1.1%

Block Tower TD is a roguelike tower defense strategy game with interesting innovations. Build a world out of blocks, choose random upgrades to make every run unique.

Why similar: Strategy 60.4%, Pixel Graphics 17.1%, Fantasy 11.2%, Building 11.2%

Become a Tower Lord! Build and upgrade your tower in this incremental idle game. Fight off the forces of the Dark Lord, conquer new lands, and challenge his dominion with the power of your dragon.

Why similar: Strategy 42.1%, Simulation 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 14%, Building 13.7%, Fantasy 9.1%

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: Strategy 39.6%, Simulation 18.5%, RTS 16%, Building 11.5%, Indie 8.4%

Feartress is an idle RPG where you gather resources, build structures and hire workers and armies to help you succeed in battle and take over multiple dimensions.

Why similar: Strategy 72.5%, Building 17.9%, Fantasy 9.6%

Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!

Why similar: RTS 53.2%, Strategy 25.8%, Building 11.4%, Simulation 9.6%

Play as mythological Gods and smite your enemies in this award-winning, mythological Real-Time Strategy classic given new life. Wage war across timeless campaigns, fierce skirmishes, and god-powered multiplayer modes.

Why similar: RTS 58.3%, Strategy 26.9%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Fantasy 5.3%

Sir, We Have an Orc Problem is an incremental-style tower defense game where you face an overwhelming number of orcs. Greet them with even more bullets, bombs and lasers!

Why similar: Strategy 67.9%, Simulation 24.2%, Fantasy 7.9%

Warlords Under Siege is a mix of RTS and Roguelike genre, where you build a small city and defend it against continuous waves of enemies. Improve your assortment of weapons with each playthrough, unlocking new possibilities to beat the ever-increasing threat.

Why similar: RTS 54.1%, Strategy 21.8%, Building 11.6%, Simulation 8.7%, Fantasy 3.8%