Overview

0 A.D. is a free, open-source historical real-time strategy game set in antiquity. Developed by Wildfire Games, it delivers the scale of a commercial RTS: gather resources, build a city, raise armies and out-manoeuvre your rivals across a range of ancient civilisations.

Key Features

• Historical civilisations — Romans, Greeks, Persians, Celts and more, each with unique units and tech trees.
• Economy and base-building — manage food, wood, stone and metal, and expand your settlement.
• Formations and tactics — command large armies with unit formations and counters.
• Multiplayer and AI — online multiplayer plus configurable AI opponents.
• Actively developed — regular releases improving the engine and content.

Why Use It

The best free alternative to Age of Empires: a full-fat historical RTS with no price tag, no DRM and no storefront — and an open codebase you can mod freely.

Use Cases

• RTS fans wanting deep single-player skirmishes.
• LAN or online multiplayer with friends.
• Modders building on an open engine.

Platforms

Windows, macOS and Linux.

Licence

Free and open source — GPL-2.0 for the code and CC-BY-SA 3.0 for the artwork. No freemium model, no in-game advertising.

Website

play0ad.com

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