Open Source Windows Real Time Strategy Games

You command the forces of “The Project” in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has almost been destroyed by nuclear missiles. The game offers a full campaign with optional (but strongly recommended!), videos, battle against four factions, multi-player and single-player skirmish modes, and an extensive tech tree and a full unit designer. Multi-player is also cross-platform, battle your friends with any OS, Windows, Linux or Mac, it all works seamlessly! We also offer 100% portable Windows builds, take the game and install it anywhere! Our source repo is now at https://github.com/Warzone2100/warzone2100 Warzone 2100 works on both 32 & 64 bit Windows Vista or higher, 32 or 64 bit Linux, & macOS 10.10+.

Dune 0.97.00 Released for windows. Likely to be some bugs For older version please navigate to 0.96.4 folders. Updated clone of Westood Studios' Dune2 which uses data files from the original game. New features include multiple unit selection/control, high resolution support, multiplayer gaming, improved gui and a selection of new AI's to play against.

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A GUI application for managing Empire: Total War pack files. Features: * adding, deleting, extracting, and replacing of files * changing between different pack types (boot/release/patch/movie)

0 A.D. (pronounced "zero ey-dee") is a cross-platform real-time strategy (RTS) game of ancient warfare. It's a historically-based war/economy game that allows players to relive or rewrite the history of ancient civilizations, each depicted at their peak of economic growth and military prowess.

Glest is a 3D real-time strategy game. Fully customizable using XML and a set of tools.

Arianne is a multiplayer online engine to develop turn based and real time games, providing a simple way of creating the game server rules and clients like our MORPG Stendhal. Our engine Marauroa uses Java and SQL for hosting hundreds of players on a solo host. Stendhal is a fun friendly and free multiplayer online adventure game with a huge and rich world. With hundreds of NPCs and different quests, features like the Travel log and achievement system keep track of progress. Thousands of creatures are ready to fight, above and below ground, and as players level up they can compare themselves on a detailed stats website. The engine Marauroa provides a simple way of creating games on a portable and robust server architecture. Marauroa manages the client server communication and provides an object orientated view of the world for game developers. It handles database access in a transparent way to store player accounts, character progress and the state of the world

OpenRA is a free and open source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games like Command & Conquer: Red Alert. It is not just a clone of the original but is a recreation, with improved and rebalanced gameplay that modernizes the classic Command & Conquer strategy games. It provides a common platform for rebuilding and reimagining classic 2D and 2.5D RTS games (the OpenRA mods). This means that OpenRA is not restricted by the technical limitations of the original closed-source games: it includes native support for modern operating systems and screen resolutions (including Windows 10, Mac OS X, and most Linux distros) without relying on emulation or binary hacks, and features integrated online multiplayer.

Spring is a versatile 3D RTS game engine. Using extensively Lua for scripting game-specific code to make nearly every aspect of the engine customizable, from GUI, to unit AI, to pathfinding.

Zod Engine is a remake of the 1996 classic game by Bitmap Brothers called Z. Z is a capture the flag style RTS. In this game you command robots and vehicles with the purpose of destroying the enemy's fort. Please visit http://zzone.lewe.com/ for more

Scorched3D incorporates lively, fully destructible 3D landscapes that include animated jets, naval vessels, water and even birds, with detailed tanks and projectiles and stunning visual effects. A simple turn-based artillery game and also a real-time strategy game in which players can counter each others' weapons with other creative accessories, shields and tactics. Test your skill in timing, aiming and judgement of distance, move around on the landscape, or outsmart your opponent economically.

lichess.org (also known as Lila - lichess in Scala) is a free and open source chess server written in Scala 2.13 that focuses on real time gameplay and ease of use. It’s where countless chess players and chess enthusiasts can gather and watch or play from a selection of over a million games every day, analyze games, learn and improve their playing. lichess is equipped with a search engine, computer analysis, tournaments, exhibitions, a mobile app, a shared analysis board, and so much more. Thanks to its large active community, the UI is available in more than 130 different languages. lichess is one of the most popular chess websites in the world and remains totally free and ad-free. Visit https://lichess.org today to know more and see what it’s about!

Endless Sky starts off the player with a decision to pick their own ship based on their style of gameplay. Will you choose to be the merchant and enjoy quiet and steady work among the stars? Or will you become a bounty hunter and fight off pirates to strike it rich? You may even decide to become the bad guy and choose to be the pirate yourself.

Dune Dynasty is a continuation of the classic real-time strategy game Dune II by Westwood Studios. It is not a remake. It builds upon the original game engine as reverse-engineered by the OpenDUNE project.

CaesarIA is an open source remake of Caesar III game released by Impressions Games in 1998, it aims to expand the possibilities of the classical city-building simulators and to add new features showing the city life. Now the game work with Windows, Linux, Mac, Haiku and Android. The original Caesar3 game is needed to play openCaesar3. We start crowdfunding campaign for renew graphic set at www.igg.me/at/caesaria-game. Help us set new stage in good old Caesar.

FreeSynd is a cross-platform, GPLed reimplementation of the classic Bullfrog game, Syndicate.

The main goal of the project to offer the original game's full functionality. Roam a hostile frozen world in a futuristic steampunk train, fight exciting train battles and try to stay alive against all odds while searching for clues about the "Sun".

Unknown Horizons is a 2D realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. LINUX PACKAGES: http://bit.ly/aurIC2

Unvanquished is a fast-paced, futuristic FPS with RTS elements, pitting technologically advanced humans against hordes of highly adaptable aliens. The player can choose from either team, providing a fresh gameplay experience on both sides of the conflict. The game is under highly active development with new releases frequently published.

Crystal Space is an Open Source 3D SDK for Unix, Windows, and MacOS/X. It renders with OpenGL and features GLSL shaders, CG shaders, deferred rendering, dynamic shadows, bullet based physics library, terrain engine, skeleton based animation meshes, exporter for Blender, portals, etc...

Note: Widelands is now hosted by launchpad: http://launchpad.net/widelands. Historical downloads and the mailinglist remain on sf.net.

NOW SUPPORTS WARCRAFT 1.28 Do you love watching Warcraft III replays but hate all the obstacles like patching and finding renamed maps? Then try ReplayKit! It does all the work for you, supports all TFT releases since 1.10 and is very easy to set up. Double click your replay files to watch them :) In case you consider supporting this project, check out the donation panel in the toolbar.

Java library and application to edit game files from all Clausewitz-engine games (EU3 and later, including EU4, Victoria 2, Hearts of Iron 3, EU: Rome, and Crusader Kings 2) and their saved games. Source code is now hosted at https://github.com/mmyers/eug. Sponsor on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=60455822

MFCTI is an RTS mod for Operation Flashpoint: Resistance. Create troops, vehicles, and bases. AI players can substitute humans allowing practice matches and co-op games. Includes a point & click interface and command system.

Utilities for Command & Conquer: Dune 2(000), Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert (2), Tiberian Sun, Renegade and Generals.