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Apr 27, 2018·Zero-K Team·
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With 100+ truly unique units, Zero-K is an RTS of freedom and creativity, tempered by a decade of refinement. Sculpt land into a castle and throw invaders off it with a Jugglenaut. Explore a massive campaign, solo or co-op. Hop online for epic 32 player battles or fast paced 1v1, on 100s of maps.

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About Zero-K

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Commander wanted! Construct giant robots, build an army of a thousand Fleas. Move mountains if needed. Bury the enemy at all cost!

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Traditional real time strategy with physically simulated units and projectiles.
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100+ varied units with abilities including terrain manipulation, cloaking and jumpjets.
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70+ mission galaxy-spanning campaign to be enjoyed solo or co-op with friends.
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Challenging, (non-cheating) skirmish AI and survival mode.
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Multiplayer 1v1 - 16v16, FFA, coop. ladders, replays, spectators and tournaments.
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Really free, no paid advantages, no unfair multiplayer.

Fully Utilized Physics

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

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

Manipulate the Terrain

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

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

Singleplayer Campaign and Challenging AI

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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.

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

Casual and Competitive Multiplayer

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

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

Power to the People

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

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Do what you want. No limits to camera, queue or level of control.
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Paint a shape, any shape, and units will move to assume your formation.
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Construction priorities let your builders work more efficiently.
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Don't want to be tied down managing every unit movement? Order units to smartly kite, strafe or zig zag bullets.

Plenty of Stuff to Explore (and Explode)

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

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

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