Games built using the OpenRA engine are known as “mods”. The OpenRA development team maintain the three official mods that can be downloaded from this website, but many more are developed and maintained by the OpenRA community.

Tiberian Dawn

An alliance of nations fights to protect Europe and northern Africa from a mysterious terrorist organization and the valuable but toxic alien mineral, Tiberium, that is slowly spreading over the world.

The Tiberian Dawn mod focuses on fast and fluid play, taking heavy influences from modern RTS games with features like multiple-queue production.

Red Alert

In a world where Hitler was assassinated and the Third Reich never existed, the Soviet Union seeks power over all of Europe. Allied against this Evil Empire, the free world faces a Cold War turned red hot.

The Red Alert mod focuses on strategy, providing a range of units and tactics to conquer the land, sea, and air.

Dune 2000

Three great houses fight for the precious spice melange. He who controls the spice controls the universe! Establish a foothold on the desert planet Arrakis, where your biggest threat is the environment.

The Dune 2000 mod currently focuses on providing an experience that is authentic to the original game.

Tiberian Sun

The next major goal for OpenRA is to support the second generation of Command & Conquer games, starting with Tiberian Sun.

The game engine features to support Tiberian Sun are still in development. The mod is not included with the OpenRA installer, but the source code is available in our GitHub repository. Please note that we do not provide support for incomplete development builds.

Building Custom Mods

Find community mods on ModDB

OpenRA is designed as a general purpose RTS game engine with strong modding support. The OpenRA Mod SDK provides tools to develop and release your own projects. Each new OpenRA release brings many improvements and fixes created for, and by, the modding community. A collection of community-built mods and games can be found on OpenRA's ModDB page.