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.

Forged Battalion News!

We're happy to announce some good news for Forged Battalion, our RTS game from 2018 that was developed in cooperation with Team 17. We've recently been given control of the game moving forward, and subsequently can update the game when time allows from other projects. And while we do have some other things in the works, some of our team members put together a small update to the game this past weekend to address of few player requests since it was originally launched.

This update to Forged Battalion includes the following:

• Allow skipping of intro movies into game
  
• Fix for random (very long) startup/load times that occurred with some players
  
• Fixed bug that was preferring the intel graphics device over the Nvidia device in laptops with dual GPU support
  
• Optimization: Fix for occasional particles thread contention
  
• Fix for crash when rendering lots of terrain shadow blobs
  
• Disable anti-aliasing on Intel GPUs for compatibility reasons
  
• By popular request, added button on options screen to reset all progress

We hope you enjoy this update and we'll be checking the forums for any feedback you might have for the future.

With E3 approaching and Hell Let Loose releasing on the 6th of June, it’s fair to say that Team17 has a very busy week ahead! In fact, next week we’ll be unveiling not just one but TWO BRAND NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENTS!

You’re not going to want to miss these announcements, and we really can’t wait to share the trailers with you. To ensure that you’re the first to hear about these new games right here on Steam, make sure to follow the Team17 Publisher Page.

In the meantime, you can find a couple of cryptic clues in the image above, and if you hop over to the Team17 Twitter account, make your predictions, follow and re-tweet then you’ll be entered into a prize draw to win a copy of these two games, and Hell Let Loose, upon release!

Thanks for reading, and we’ll see you next week!

With the release of PLANET ALPHA on 4th September 2018, Team17 will have released 100 games! This landmark includes games developed and/or published here at Team17, ranging from our early Amiga days with the likes of Alien Breed, Body Blows and Project X, through the explosion in popularity of the Worms series, our work-for-hire period on franchises like Lemmings and Leisure Suit Larry right through to the modern age and our indie games label featuring The Escapists, Overcooked and Yooka-Laylee!

https://youtu.be/CfGBMGPl_5s

Our celebration begins today with the retrospective video above, as well as a new trailer for PLANET ALPHA, available to pre-order now with a 10% discount!

There's more to come too! Keep an eye on Team17's Facebook and Twitter channels for more activities throughout the year, including behind-the-scenes retropspectives, competitions and fun with friends!

What's your favourite Team17 game of all time? Why not join us in the official Team17 Discord server and let us know?

It’s been a busy week here at Team17 Towers! Overcooked! 2 launched last Tuesday, Sword Legacy: Omen was released this Monday, Forged Battalion has just come out of Early Access and now… We’ve decided to put almost everything we have on Steam on sale! There’s even an extra game in there that we didn’t publish. How ace is that?

In total, you’ll find 75 items on sale from August 14th – 17th 2018 with discounts of up to 90% across the likes of Worms, Overcooked, The Escapists, Alien Breed, Yooka-Laylee and early access title My Time At Portia! In amongst these sales you’ll also find launch discounts for Sword Legacy: Omen and Forged Battalion as well as 10% off pre-orders on PLANET ALPHA Deluxe Edition!

Check out the full list of discounts below and make sure to check our Publisher Sale Page before August 17th to take advantage.

• Alien Breed 2: Assault - 80%
  
• Alien Breed 3: Descent - 80%
  
• Alien Breed Trilogy - 90%
  
• Alien Breed: Impact - 80%
  
• Aven Colony - 70%
  
• Aven Colony – Cerulean Vale - 50%
  
• Aven Colony – Soundtrack - 50%
  
• Beyond Eyes - 75%
  
• Dangerous Golf (Published by Three Fields Entertainment) - 75%
  
• Flockers - 90%
  
• Forged Battalion (Released from Early Access Discount) - 20%
  
• Interplanetary: Enhanced Edition - 75%
  
• LA Cops - 75%
  
• Lethal VR - 75%
  
• Light - 90%
  
• Mugsters - 25%
  
• My Time at Portia - 20%
  
• Overcooked - 75%
  
• Overcooked – The Lost Morsel - 75%
  
• Overruled! - 75%
  
• Overruled! (4 for the price of 3 Friends Pack) - 75%
  
• Penarium - 75%
  
• PLANET ALPHA (Pre-order Discount) - 10%
  
• RAGING JUSTICE - 40%
  
• Sheltered - 75%
  
• Sword Legacy: Omen (Launch Discount) - 20%
  
• The Escapists - 75%
  
• The Escapists + The Escapists: The Walking Dead Deluxe - 75%
  
• The Escapists – Alcatraz - 66%
  
• The Escapists – Duct Tapes are Forever - 66%
  
• The Escapists – Escape Team - 66%
  
• The Escapists – Fhurst Peak Correctional Facility - 66%
  
• The Escapists 2 - 45%
  
• The Escapists 2: Big Top Breakout - 25%
  
• The Escapists 2: Dungeons and Duct Tape - 25%
  
• The Escapists 2: Season Pass - 25%
  
• The Escapists 2: The Glorious Regime - 25%
  
• The Escapists 2: Wicked Ward - 25%
  
• The Escapists: The Walking Dead - 75%
  
• The Escapists: The Walking Dead Deluxe - 75%
  
• Worms - 75%
  
• Worms Armageddon - 80%
  
• Worms Blast - 75%
  
• Worms Clan Wars - 80%
  
• Worms Clan Wars 4-Pack - 80%
  
• Worms Crazy Golf - 75%
  
• Worms Pinball - 75%
  
• Worms Reloaded - 80%
  
• Worms Reloaded – GOTY - 80%
  
• Worms Reloaded – GOTY Upgrade - 75%
  
• Worms Reloaded Fort Booster Pack - 75%
  
• Worms Reloaded Puzzle Pack - 75%
  
• Worms Reloaded Retro Pack - 75%
  
• Worms Reloaded Time Attack Pack - 75%
  
• Worms Reloaded: The “Pre-order Forts and Hats” DLC Pack - 75%
  
• Worms Revolution - 80%
  
• Worms Revolution – Customization Pack - 75%
  
• Worms Revolution – Funfair - 75%
  
• Worms Revolution – Mars DLC - 75%
  
• Worms Revolution – Medieval Tales - 75%
  
• Worms Revolution – Season Pass - 75%
  
• Worms Revolution 4-pack - 80%
  
• Worms Revolution Gold - 80%
  
• Worms Ultimate Mayhem - 80%
  
• Worms Ultimate Mayhem – Customization Pack - 75%
  
• Worms Ultimate Mayhem – Deluxe Edition - 75%
  
• Worms Ultimate Mayhem – Four Pack - 75%
  
• Worms Ultimate Mayhem – Multiplayer Pack - 75%
  
• Worms W.M.D - 66%
  
• Worms World Party Remastered - 80%
  
• Yoku’s Island Express - 33%
  
• Yooka-Laylee - 70%
  
• Yooka-Laylee Digital Artbook - 66%
  
• Yooka-Laylee Digital Deluxe Edition - 70%
  
• Yooka-Laylee Soundtrack - 70%

Hello Commanders,

Forged Battalion has officially left Early Access and is now a fully launched game!
We want to say a huge thank you to you, our players, for all your time and feedback during the Early Access period. Your experiences helped us craft, balance and develop Forged Battalion during Early Access into what it is today.

At full launch, Forged Battalion contains:

• 15 single player campaign missions
  
• 2-8 player (or AI!) unranked Online Multiplayer
  
• 1 v 1 ranked Online Multiplayer.
  
• AI skirmish battles – play against up to 7 AI players.
  
• AI difficulty settings for single player campaign missions and AI skirmish battles.
  
• Standard, Annihilation and Destroy HQ unranked / AI multiplayer game modes.
  
• Faction Creator. Save multiple Factions to take into battle.
  
• 71 attachments across 4 Tech Tree tiers.
  
• Building attachments – customise turrets, HQs and superweapons using attachments.
  
• Map Editor & Steam workshop support.
  
• Soundtrack, sound design and voice-overs by the iconic RTS composer Frank Klepacki.

Launch Patch Notes

• 5 new campaign missions
  
• Remaining voice overs for campaign missions 5-15.
  
• Menu: Localisation added for surround sound options in the audio menu.
  
• Menu: Localisation added for campaign difficulty tool tip.
  
• Menu: Custom maps no longer appear with the name [MISSING] on the loading screen.
  
• Mission 7: Stephanie Milovich and the Commander’s text lines are no longer cut off by the Victory / Defeat screens.
  
• Mission 8: Fixed multiple lines of repeated text in non-English languages for character speech.
  
• Mission 9: If the player is defeated, Dallas speech is no longer interrupted by the defeat screen.
  
• Various minor text and localisation tweaks

To celebrate Forged Battalion’s launch, we’re offering a 20% launch discount for budding Commanders looking to join the battle!

You can take advantage of the launch discount HERE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkQ3DTWXms4

Commanders,

Priority intel has arrived from HQ.

Forged Battalion is leaving Early Access on Tuesday, August 14th at 5pm BST!

The full release of Forged Battalion will see the addition of five new campaign missions, as you seek to bring the war against The Collective to a climatic end.

We’d like to say a huge thank you to you, our players, for all your support and feedback throughout the Early Access period. Your comments constructive criticism have helped us shape and develop Forged Battalion throughout Early Access.

At full release, Forged Battalion will contain:

• 15 single player campaign missions
  
• 2-8 player (or AI!) unranked Online Multiplayer
  
• 1 v 1 ranked Online Multiplayer
  
• AI skirmish battles – play against up to 7 AI players.
  
• AI difficulty settings for single player campaign missions and AI skirmish battles.
  
• Standard, Annihilation and Destroy HQ unranked / AI multiplayer game modes.
  
• Faction Creator. Save multiple Factions to take into battle.
  
• 71 attachments across 4 Tech Tree tiers.
  
• Building attachments – customise turrets, HQs and superweapons using attachments.
  
• Map Editor & Steam workshop support.
  
• Soundtrack, sound design and voice-overs by the iconic RTS composer Frank Klepacki.

We’ll be providing full patch details on Tuesday, including details on tweaks and bug fixes that’ll be coming with launch.

We’ll see you on the battlefield.

Hello Commanders,

The Steam Summer Sale has arrived on the frontlines and to celebrate, we've given Forged Battalion a 33% discount!

If you've been looking to get your friends into Forged Battalion and engage in some intense Player vs Player or Player vs AI, now's the time to summon them for reinforcements!

We'll see you on the battlefields!

Hello Commanders,

Today we’re excited to add five new multiplayer maps to Forged Battalion’s Ranked, Unranked and AI Skirmish modes:

Two Player

• Mud Trap
  
• The Divide
  
• Timber Valley

Four Player

• Pining Away

Six Player

• Gear of War

When designing the above content, we took onboard your feedback, sculpting the landscape based on what you’ve told us.

The aim of these new maps is to change the pace of battle and open new tactical options and situations that you may not have experienced on the existing maps.

We’re keen to hear what you think of these new maps, so feel free to let us know over on the Steam forums!

Calling all new, experienced and veteran players,

Today we are excited to announce a new tournament format that will alternate with our existing Commander Clash 1v1 Tournament, the Saturday Showdown!

This new format is designed to be a more relaxed PvP environment, open to all players, whether you’re brand new to the game, normally only play vs AI, new to PvP or a veteran PvPer.

We want the Saturday Showdown to be a bridge into PvP, for new and experienced players alike.

Below are the details of the Saturday Showdown tournament:

Date & Time: Saturday 7th April at 7pm BST
Tournament Structure: 1v1, BO1 knockout
Prize: 1 x Forged Battalion game code
Sign-up link: Challonge

For those new to the Forged Battalion tournament scene, both Challonge and the Forged Battalion Discord room are great places to talk to the Forged Battalion Community Manager, Jonno, as well as your fellow tournament participants. You can have questions answered, engage in some friendly banter and pick up some tips!


A new addition that the Saturday Showdown is bringing to our tournaments are knockout games. If you’re knocked out of the tournament before it finishes and you’d like to play some more matches, our Community Manager will be hosting some friendly PvP and comp stomp matches so players can continuing getting stuck into the battlefield, despite exiting the tournament.

Below are the formal rules for the tournament, these can also be found on the Challonge tournament page. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!



All currently available technology and mods are allowed for use in the tournament. All players are welcome to play in the competition, irrespective of tech level or faction build.


At the conclusion of a match both players should take responsibility for ensuring the correct results are logged on Challonge.

As proof of result both players involved in a match should take a screenshot at the conclusion of the match where the end result can be seen. This will help should any disputes arise.


The tournament will begin at 19:00pm BST on Saturday 7th April. Players should aim to arrive no later than ten minutes before their first match is due to start.

There is a grace period of ten minutes following 19:00pm GMT (tournament start) in which late participants can still enter the competition. After 19:10pm BST participants that have not arrived for their first match will be disqualified from the tournament.

Following the first round of matches, successful players should add their next opponent on Steam and co-ordinate the next match to be played immediately.


Please ensure your connection is stable before your match begins. Due to the nature of RTS games and the importance of the early game, there is no disconnection grace period. If a player loses connection to the game at any point during a match, then they will forfeit the match. This rule can be overturned if the player that remains connected is happy to rematch.


Forged Battalion operates dedicated servers for multiplayer, as such no host advantage can be gained. Due to this both players can create a match lobby.

In the case of a disagreement on who will host the player on the top of the match bracket will default to match host.


Both players should take responsibility for ensuring the following lobby settings are in place prior to the match starting:

Map: Gridlock
Mode: Standard
Victory Condition: BO1


If it is discovered that the game has started with the wrong settings the match should be restarted immediately.

Complaints raised for incorrect match settings are invalid after the first thirty seconds of the match.


You can enter the tournament using this link.

Hopefully we’ll see you on Saturday for some friendly and competitive PvP action!