Libre real-time strategy game engine for classic Westwood games, with modernized play and mod support
GPL-3.0
- C#
- Lua
- Fluent

About OpenRA
OpenRA is a free, libre real-time strategy game engine that reimagines the early Westwood classics. It recreates and modernizes Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn, and Dune 2000, so the familiar RTS gameplay runs natively on current platforms with quality-of-life improvements instead of the original DOS-era releases.
Those three games ship as the engine's distributed mods, complete with online multiplayer and skirmishes against the AI. Maps can be reshaped with custom rules, missions scripted through a Lua API, and entirely new classic-style RTS games built using the OpenRA Mod SDK.
Written in C# with SDL and OpenGL, OpenRA runs on Windows, Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X, and dedicated game servers can be self-hosted. It is licensed under GPL-3 or later.
Key features
- Reimagines Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, and Dune 2000
- Online multiplayer and skirmishes against the AI
- Custom map rules and Lua-scripted missions
- Mod SDK for building new classic-style RTS games
- Self-hostable dedicated game servers
Details
- First released
- 2010
- Platforms
- Windows · Linux · BSD · Mac OS X
- License
- GPL-3 or later
- Engine
- C# · SDL · OpenGL
- Self-hosting
- Dedicated game server support
- Mods
- Red Alert · Tiberian Dawn · Dune 2000
