Zero-K
Open Source on Springrts engine. Zero-K is a traditional real time strategy game with a focus on player creativity through terrain manipulation, physics, and a large roster of unique units - all while being balanced to support competitive play.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 290 commits in the last 90 days.
At a glance
Zero-K quick facts
- Health score
- 57/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 879
- Last commit
- 2 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "and a powerful UI, running on the [Spring Engine]."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Zero-K scores 57/100, #14 of 20 in Games: 290 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 879 stars add 11.8 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is release recency, worth 25.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
290 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 11.8 / 20
879 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 290
- Last 90 days
- 846
- Last 12 months
- 2 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #14 of 20 tools in Games by health , between DDraceNetwork (#13) and Red Eclipse 2 (#15) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-2.0 |
| Platforms | Lua |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 879 |
| Open issues | 1,232 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | ZeroK-RTS/Zero-K ↗ |
Zero-K vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Zero-K (Games), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Luanti | 87 | 14k | LGPL-2.1 | yesterday |
| 0 A.D. | 74 | 69 | MIT | yesterday |
| Hypersomnia | 68 | 1.7k | AGPL-3.0 | 3 days ago |
| The Battle for Wesnoth | 60 | 7k | GPL-2.0 | yesterday |
| MTA:SA | 58 | 1.9k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Zero-K (this tool) | 57 | 879 | GPL-2.0 | 2 days ago |
Zero-K: common questions
Is Zero-K still maintained?
Zero-K had 290 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.