Zero-K open source Real-Time Strategy game
Original Release: 21 December 2010
Latest Version: V1.7.11.4 (24 November 2019)
License: GNU GPL
Developer: Zero-K Dev Team
Free, cross-platform, open source RTS game where massive robot armies fight an endless conflict. It has a powerful interface allowing players precision control over high level economic, strategic and tactical decisions. Units interact intuitively using real projectile and movement physics. It boasts over 100 diverse units including Vehicles, Tanks, Hovercraft, Planes, Gunships, Ships, Spiders walkers and dozens of different robots offering unique strategies and constantly moving combat.
Similar gameplay to Total Annihilation and its successor, Supreme Commander. As computers grow faster, Zero-K intends to scale with them, allowing players to increase their resolution and allowing for higher unit counts with virtually no limit.
Players start out with a construction-capable bipedal mech known as the Commander which acts as the player’s avatar. Players use their commander to construct a base of operations from which they can expand to fight and ultimately destroy opposing players. Players can use experience points to upgrade their commander with new weapons and modules.
Players earn experience points for each Zero-K game they play. These may be used to unlock new units for use in-game or to customize their commander. After they play enough games, players will be able to unlock the entire unit collection. This feature exists to prevent new players from building units that are not designed to be used by inexperienced players, thus, they must gain experience playing Zero-K before they can use those units.
The game includes 10+ factories each with 8+ unique units for a huge variation of viable build orders on most maps. Aside from the factories, there are many important buildings that create resources, provide radar coverage, shield units from Enemy weapons, conceal units from enemies, provide a defence to a static location, and perform many other functions.
Minimum System Requirements:
Processor: 1 GHz single core CPU
Memory: 512 MB of RAM
Graphics: GeForce 4 MX
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