Loading...
  OR  Zero-K Name:    Password:   
74 players online: 46 of them fighting in 16 battles, 4693 on discord



Commander wanted!


Drive giant robots, build an army of a thousand Fleas, move mountains if needed, bury the enemy at all cost!

  • Real time strategy.
  • Physically simulated units and projectiles.
  • Terrain manipulation.
  • 100+ varied units with unique abilities.
  • Singleplayer campaign.
  • Challenging, non-cheating AI.
  • Multiplayer 1v1 - 16v16, FFA, coop.
  • Multiplayer online campaign.
  • Really free, no in-game currency, no unfair multiplayer.

Fully Utilized Physics

Simulated unit and projectile physics is used to a level rarely found in a strategy game.


  • Use small nimble units to dodge slow moving projectiles.
  • Hide behind hills that block weapon fire, line of sight and radar.
  • Toss units across the map with gravity guns.
  • Transport a battleship to a hilltop - for greater views and gun range.

Manipulate the Terrain

The terrain itself is an ever-changing part of the battlefield.

  • Wreck the battlefield with craters that bog down enemy tanks.
  • Dig canals to bring your navy inland for a submarine-in-a-desert strike.
  • Build ramps, bridges, entire fortress if you wish.
  • Burn your portrait into continental crust using the planetary energy chisel.

Singleplayer Campaign and Challenging AI

Enjoy many hours of single player and coop fun with our campaign, wide selection of non-cheating AIs and a survival mode against an alien horde.


  • Explore the galaxy and discover technologies in our singleplayer campaign.
  • Face a challenging AI that is neither brain-dead nor a clairvoyant cheater.
  • Have some coop fun with friends, surviving waves of chicken-monsters.
  • Cloaking? Resurrection? Tough choices customizing your commander.

Casual and Competitive Multiplayer

Zero-K was built for multiplayer from the start, this is where you can end up being hooked for a decade.

  • Enjoying epic scale combat? Join our 16v16 team battles!
  • Looking for a common goal? Fight AIs or waves of chicken-monsters.
  • Prefer dancing on a razor's edge? Play 1v1 in ladder and tournaments.
  • Comebacks, betrayals, emotions always running high in FFA.
  • Want to fight for a bigger cause? Form a clan and join PlanetWars, competitive online campaign with web-game strategic elements, diplomacy and backstabbing.

Power to the People

We are RTS players at heart, we work for nobody. We gave ourselves the tools we always wanted to have in a game.


  • Do what you want. No limits to camera, queue or level of control.
  • Paint a shape, any shape, and units will move to assume your formation.
  • Want to spend more time on tactics? Use construction priorities.
  • Want to focus on economy? Order units to kite, strafe or zig zag bullets.

Plenty of Stuff to Explode Explore

Zero-K is a long term project and it shows, millions hours of proper multiplayer testing and dozens of people contributing ever expanding content.


  • Learn to use all of our 100+ units and play on hundreds of maps.
  • Invent the next mad team-tactics to shock enemies and make allies laugh.
  • Combine cloaking, teleports, shields, jumpjets, EMP, napalm, gravity guns, black hole launchers, mind control and self-replication.
  • Tiny flea swarm that clings to walls?
    Jumping "cans" with steam-spike?
    Buoys that hide under water to ambush ships?
    Mechs that spew fire and enjoy being tossed from air transports?
    Carrier with cute helicopters?
    Jumping Jugglenaut with dual wielding gravity guns?
    Meet them in Zero-K!

or just view the media

[LR] Arcadian 1v1 Tournament 5/3/2025 (USD $170 Prize!!!)

This week Qrow is hosting Lobster Roll: Into the Pot, an Arcadian tournament limited to 2400 Casual ladder elo and below. It will feature a 170 USD total prize pool. You can find more information here.
Posted by AUrankAdminGoogleFrog 27 hours ago - comment

Cold Take #25 - Completely Free

Zero-K is not just a free game, it is free software created entirely by volunteers. The only developers are those from the community, and anyone can contribute.

Read it here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/334920/view/507326244048601493
Posted by AUrankAdminGoogleFrog 6 days ago - comment

Zero-K v1.13.4.1 - Snazzy Plasma

This update sports fancy new plasma cannon visuals and an engine update. The engine update is fairly well tested by this point, and should resolve a few rare crashes and improve performance. It might need a bit of time to scan your maps when you first launch the game. In terms of balance, the game seems quite stable and the recent Felon nerf is still being assessed, so we only touched the second-smallest and second-largest turret.

Balance



Picket requires an extra Ronin shot.
  • Health 340 -> 375

Disco Rave Party almost turns as fast as it used to.
  • Turn rate 3 -> 4 degrees per second

Features and Fixes


  • Plasma cannon trails! (thanks ThornEel)
  • Made a start on Japanese localisation (thanks syuumu200).
  • Fixed the way a few units handle projectiles in Tech-K (thanks XNTEABDSC).
  • Lobster cooldown is now shown in the selection windows (like other manual fire weapons).
  • Big Bertha now only fires into terrain when force-fired a the ground.
  • Added Skuttle as an option for automatic unit marking.
  • The Reset button on the ingame menu now resets hotkeys as well as settings.
  • Reorganised the camera change settings for and de-duplication and clarity.
  • Units built in a factory while under a cloaker no longer take 8 seconds to cloak.
Posted by AUrankAdminGoogleFrog 13 days ago - comment

Cold Take #24 - Balancing Burst Breakpoints

Zero-K combines light units with heavy weaponry, and the result is massive overkill. This makes for exciting battles, but is also a great balance tool, when used in moderation.

Read it here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/334920/view/507324341817443814
Posted by AUrankAdminGoogleFrog 27 days ago - comment

rss RSS feed | news archive