Zero-K Team has announced the release of its new free real-time strategy game that is heavily inspired by Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander, Zero-K. Zero-K is an RTS set near the end of the universe in which players can manipulate the terrain, set things on fire, and fight epic battles over land, air and sea.
The game features taditional real time strategy gameplay with physically simulated units and projectiles, 100+ varied units with abilities including terrain manipulation, cloaking and jumpjets and 70+ mission galaxy-spanning campaign to be enjoyed solo or co-op with friends.
Zero-K also features skirmish AI and survival modes, multiplayer 1v1 and 16v16 modes, FFA, coop. ladders, replays, spectators and tournaments, and will get a multiplayer online campaign in May, called PlanetWars.
Those interested can download the game from Steam right now.
Enjoy!
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Free to play… I’m not really feeling it.
Majority of F2P games end up finding a way to gouge you for money, mostly in more ways than one.
This is an open source game built by volunteers for over a decade. Moreover, due to the license of some of the content, even if the devs wanted to charge money, they couldn’t.
This is free. Truly free.
Further, the engine, art, server.. the whole game has been hosted on GitHub for years, under various open source licenses, so this is free as beer and speech!
It is *not* your average free2play model. It’s like Linux for games, trully free.
I know, but it doesn’t really sit well with me in general. I’d rather buy the game and run it from my end till the day I die, rather than being free and hosted on a network they could pull away from.
You can do that, expect in this game it costs all $0, and you can also make arbitrary modifications as you have access to the source code.
I have multiple copies of the game, engine, maps, various servers and AIs.. I can play offline or even host my own server, and I can modify it as I like.
You don’t get any more free than this.
Great RTS PvP that is intense but not a clicks per second autowin for the youngsters. It’s more about knowing what strategy counters you and counters the opposing player/team. The large team games are also great fun. The PvE will also suck you in for a long time – the AI can be very hard without any cheating, it is just given good strategies. The Co-Op mode sometimes becomes like sim city with all the defenses that work better against the AI than against players.
The graphics are maybe dated by a couple years, but still quite good. The unit balance is very good and did I mention it’s FREE? It is not P2W at all because unless you email a dev to donate, you are never asked to buy anything. It is far far better than normal “free” games that constantly bug you to buy junk. It makes those games look like trash. This game is free – you download it and can play it forever – even modify it.