Petroglyph announces 8-Bit Armies will be released worldwide this Friday, April 22nd, offering a "fast-paced, friendly and accessible" real-time strategy game from the RTS specialists. A launch trailer provides a look at environments and gameplay, and this announcement fills in a bunch of details:

8-Bit Armies is a tribute to classic RTS and is suitable to existing fans and new players of the genre seeking a friendly approach to strategy gaming. With a colorful, blocky voxel art style, the game is accessible to anyone regardless of experience. Your objective is to collect resources, build up and defend your base, amass your army of military units, and ultimately crush your opponents! Packed full of features, the game at launch includes a 25-mission offline single-player campaign, 10 two-player cooperative missions, 10 AI skirmish maps, and 8 Player-vs-Player Multiplayer for up to 8 players. With multiple difficulty levels and easy-to-understand modern military units and structures, novice players will instantly feel at home. Offering inspiring gameplay and beautifully rendered voxel-themed visuals, it excels at bringing a complex type of game to the masses with its casual approach to the compelling world of RTS.