Petroglyph has introduced that the sequel to 2016’s 8-Bit Armies, titled 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far, will launch into PC Early Entry on February 23.

Using 8-Bit in describing indie video games that use both a voxel or pixel artwork fashion has at all times irked me. It’s much less frequent now, but it surely was extremely popular because the retro gamer id began to take maintain. A pet peeve is all. Nevertheless, Petroglyph has been in my thoughts since I realized they’re nonetheless updating 2006’s Star Wars: Empire at Battle. That sort of love and dedication towards their group is laudable.

9-Bit Armies describes itself as and simple to study, difficult-to-master real-time technique recreation. Whereas I’m not a fan of the voxel artwork fashion, it touts two-player cooperative campaigns, maps which might be 400% larger than the unique, and naval warfare. You may as well construct and destroy bridges, which can not sound very thrilling, however bridges have excessive strategic significance in actual wars, and this hardly ever will get translated into technique video games.

When it comes to its Early Entry launch, Petroglyph says, “The core recreation is essentially in place, with each factions absolutely playable and a full marketing campaign to play via.” The purpose of Early Entry is to open it to a bigger participant base and acquire suggestions to enhance it on prime of simply including content material.

9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far releases on PC Early Entry on February 23, 2024.