0 A.D. is a free, open source, historical Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game
0 A.D. is currently under development by Wildfire Games, a global group of volunteer game developers. As the leader of an ancient civilization, you must gather the resources you need to raise a military force and dominate your enemies.
0 A.D. is completely downloadable at no cost and will always be. No “freemium” model, no in-game advertising, no catch.
Portrays some of the major civilizations over the millennium of 500 B.C. to 500 A.D. (Hence the midpoint, zero.) That is an ambitious prospect, so in the first edition of 0 A.D., we focus on the last five centuries B.C. Perhaps in future expansion packs, more civilizations will be added, along with additional gameplay features.
Strong emphasis on historical accuracy while developing 0 A.D. We plan all our units and all our buildings based on reconstructions of how the units and the buildings might have looked like in the ancient world. We even name them in the original languages, such as Greek and Latin. But it’s worth remembering that any game should be fun to play, so, in many cases, we preferred playability over historical accuracy.
System Requirments
Windows Download of 0AD
Version: XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10
Processor: 1 GHz Intel or x86 compatible
Memory: At least 512 MB
Graphics Card: Any supporting OpenGL 1.3 with 3D hardware-accelerated drivers and at least 128 MB memory, e.g., Radeon 9000, GeForce 3, or similar
Screen resolution: 1024×768 or above
MacOS Download of 0AD
Version: 10.9 or later
Processor: 2006 or later Intel-based Mac
Screen resolution: 1024×768 or above
Linux (see below for the download of 0AD)
Processor: 1 GHz Intel or x86 compatible
Memory: At least 512 MB
Graphics Card: Any supporting OpenGL 1.3 with 3D hardware-accelerated drivers and at least 128 MB memory, e.g., Radeon 9000, GeForce 3, or similar
Screen resolution: 1024×768 or above
Linux Download/Install of 0AD information below
Arch
0 A.D. is available in the community repository.
Chakra
0 A.D. is available in the desktop repository.
Debian
0 A.D. is available in Debian’s repositories.
For users of Debian 9.x (Jessie, current stable), the latest version is in the backports repository.
First, you have to add the backports to your system by adding to the sources.list:
deb https://http.debian.net/debian stretch-backports main
Then update the repository cache with :
apt-get update
Finally, install the last alpha from official repositories using:
apt-get install -t stretch-backports 0ad
For users of Debian 10.x (Buster) or unstable, the latest version is in the default repository:
apt-get install 0ad
Run the game from the command-line as
0ad
or from the application menu item “0 A.D.”
Fedora
0 A.D. is available in the official Fedora repositories. Install the packages by running:
sudo dnf install 0ad
Run the game from the command-line as
0ad
or from the application menu item “0 A.D.”
Frugalware
0 A.D. in the repositories, install the package:
repoman upd repoman merge 0ad
Gentoo
emerge 0ad
OpenSUSE
- Launch YaST.
- Select “Software” and “Software Repositories”.
- Select “Add” and “Specify URL…”
- Enter one of the following URLs, with name “obs-games”:
- https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
- https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_Factory/
- https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/
- https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_13.2/
- https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/openSUSE_13.1/
- It should prompt “Import Untrusted GnuPG Key” – these packages are not checked or trusted by OpenSUSE. You should not install them in security-critical environments. If you understand and accept the danger of installing unknown software, accept the import.
- Run “Install/Remove Software”
- Select “0ad” to install.
Run the game from the command-line as
0ad
or from the application menu item “0 A.D.”
Sabayon
Install 0 A.D. package using this command:
equo install 0ad
Slackware
0ad and 0ad-data SlackBuilds are available for Slackware 14.1 users. The easiest way to install them is probably using Sbopkg:
su sbopkg -i 0ad-data sbopkg -i 0ad
Run the game from the command-line as:
0ad
Alternatively, you can build the SlackBuilds manually as described in the HOWTO.
Ubuntu
Ubuntu-Provided Packages
For users of Ubuntu Cosmic (18.10) or Disco (19.04), the latest version of 0 A.D. is available in Ubuntu’s universe repository. Make sure universe is enabled in your sources, and install the package by running:
sudo apt-get install 0ad
0 A.D.-Provided Packages
For users of Ubuntu LTS Trusty (14.04), Xenial (16.04) or Bionic (18.04), the latest version of 0 A.D. packages is available from 0 A.D. PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wfg/0ad sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install 0ad
(If you get errors about unmet dependencies, check that you have the Universe repository enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list.)
Development version: You can try a more up-to-date but less-well-tested version from our development snapshot PPA, which should be updated each week. Follow the instructions above but use the ppa:wfg/0ad.dev repository name.
How to Run the Game
Run the game from the command-line as:
0ad
or from the application menu item Games / 0 A.D.
