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Byte Lynx

Byte Lynx

Byte Lynx is a fast-paced RTS with no units. Build defenses, dismantle your enemy, and steal their buildings in this deeply tactical building combat-based strategy game. Expand your arsenal across a series of diverse levels!

Released Oct 12, 2022 Developer Artful Games Platforms Windows Base-BuildingRTSStrategyAction RTSPuzzle
View on Steam ↗ $9.99 (US · as of 2026-05-15)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.

97.8%positive89 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Creative tactics game, all about flanking and outmaneuvering your oppent despite the fact that everyone only has buildings. If the enemy sends a pile of turrets into your base, just circle around and steal it.”

— a player, Steam review · 19 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.

19achievements
19.1%median completion
6.3%rarest: Run Like A Ninja
99.2% of players 89.0% of players 70.3% of players 67.3% of players 52.2% of players 48.7% of players 48.6% of players 28.6% of players 26.5% of players 19.1% of players 18.4% of players 15.5% of players 15.0% of players 11.5% of players 10.8% of players 10.0% of players 8.9% of players 6.7% of players 6.3% of players 99.2% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
99.2%A Journey Begins — A journey begins
89.0%Engineer — Construct 100 buildings
70.3%Pickpocket — Capture 500 buildings
Rarest badges of honor
6.3%Run Like A Ninja — Beat mission Invasion in less than 5 minutes
6.7%Ain't Nobody Got Time For That — Beat mission Lost Cause in less than 5 minutes
8.9%Enemy Of My Enemy — In mission Back Door, use one enemy to "back door" the other

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Sep 18, 2023
Minor Update v1.1.1 (Creator Contest ends soon)

General Changes Buildings can now have a demolish award. Demolishing a Triplex will now award 200 Nanites. This gives you a method to convert 225 energy into 150 nanites on demand. Added display area

Aug 31, 2023
Byte Builder Competition

Do you have what it takes to make an awesome Byte Lynx map? If so, then enter your map to our Byte Lynx Map Builder Competition for a chance to win prizes and prestige! The competition runs from Septe

Aug 28, 2023
Byte Builder Update

New Content: Custom Maps Jail Break : Break free from prison by corrupting other prisoners to your will and avoiding or deactivating security. Byte Command : A Missile Command style arcade map where y

May 29, 2023
Byte Lynx v1.0.8

This time around we have a larger patch than usual. While working on the map editor we made a bunch of quality-of-life improvements we wanted to share with you while you wait for the big update in a c

May 22, 2023
A long awaited progress update

Sorry for the long silence! We've been hard at work adding way more features to the map editor than originally intended. We don't want to confirm any features until they're in and working up to our st

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.

GenresIndie, Strategy
Player tagsBase-Building · RTS · Strategy · Action RTS · Puzzle · Tower Defense · Sci-fi · Singleplayer · Tactical · 4X · PvE · War (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Stats · Includes level editor · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * *
Achievements19
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows Processor: 4 Core CPU Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Intel(R) Graphics/Integrated Graphics Storage: 6 GB available space