0 A.D.
Cross-platform real-time strategy game of ancient warfare.
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Still maintained? Yes: 224 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.28.0 (Feb 2026).
At a glance
0 A.D. quick facts
- Health score
- 74/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 69
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.28.0, Feb 2026
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Why it ranks here
Health score explained
0 A.D. scores 74/100, #6 of 20 in Games: 224 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.28.0, 9 months ago) earns 21.4 of 25, 69 stars add 7.4 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 12.6 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the gitea.wildfiregames.com API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
224 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 21.4 / 25
v0.28.0 released 9 months ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 7.4 / 20
69 stars on gitea.wildfiregames.com (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 224
- Last 90 days
- 340
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #6 of 20 tools in Games by health , between Veloren (#5) and Digibuzzer (#7) .
Details
| Licence | MIT, GPL-2.0, Zlib |
| Platforms | C++, C, deb |
| Latest release | v0.28.0 · 9 months ago |
| Stars | 69 |
| Open issues | 1,599 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad ↗ |
0 A.D. vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with 0 A.D. (Games), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenTTD | 94 | 8.4k | GPL-2.0 | yesterday |
| Razzia | 92 | 1.1k | MIT | 2 days ago |
| Mindustry | 88 | 30k | GPL-3.0 | 8 days ago |
| 0 A.D. (this tool) | 74 | 69 | MIT | yesterday |
| The Battle for Wesnoth | 60 | 7k | GPL-2.0 | yesterday |
| Zero-K | 57 | 879 | GPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
0 A.D.: common questions
Is 0 A.D. still maintained?
0 A.D. had 224 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, v0.28.0, is from 9 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.