# OpenRA

> OpenRA is an open-source strategy game engine that brings back Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn and Dune 2000 on Windows, macOS and Linux, with modern controls and online play.

Web page: https://emulationking.com/microsoft/windows/games/redalert/ports/openra/
Page updated: 2026-10-26

- Developer: OpenRA Team
- Port type: Reimplementation (The game was rebuilt in new code that plays like the original and loads its data from your own copy.)
- Game: [Command & Conquer: Red Alert](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/windows/games/redalert/index.md)
- AI use: Not stated
- Source code: https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA
- Runs on: Windows, Linux, macOS

What you need: Nothing for Red Alert and Tiberian Dawn: OpenRA downloads the game files EA released as freeware. Dune 2000 needs its original CD or another copy of its data.

OpenRA is a free real-time strategy engine that recreates Westwood Studios' early classics. Its three included mods reimagine Command & Conquer: Red Alert (1996), the original Command & Conquer, known as Tiberian Dawn, and Dune 2000, using the original games' graphics and sound.

Rather than copying the originals exactly, OpenRA keeps their look and feel while modernising how they play: the interface and controls follow later strategy games, units are rebalanced for online play, and it adds a modern multiplayer lobby, replays, observers and a map editor. The single-player missions of each game are included as well.

Because EA released Red Alert and Command & Conquer as freeware, OpenRA can download their content on first start, so those two need no original discs. A software development kit lets the community build entirely new games on the engine.

## How to set it up

1. Download the Windows installer or portable zip, the macOS disk image, or the Linux AppImage for the game you want.
2. Start Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn or Dune 2000 from OpenRA.
3. On first start, choose **Quick Install** to download the freeware game content, or install it from your disc or an existing copy.

## Latest builds

Download these from the web page: https://emulationking.com/microsoft/windows/games/redalert/ports/openra/#download

- for Windows (x64, portable): 20250330 (2025-03-30)
- Installer for Windows (x64): 20250330 (2025-03-30)
- Dune 2000 for Linux (AppImage): 20250330 (2025-03-30)
- Tiberian Dawn for Linux (AppImage): 20250330 (2025-03-30)
- Red Alert for Linux (AppImage): 20250330 (2025-03-30)
- for macOS: 20250330 (2025-03-30)