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0 A.D. for Linux and BSD

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On GNU/Linux and BSD distributions, 0 A.D. is most likely provided by your package manager.

In our wiki, the page wiki:GettingTheUnixRelease lists many popular distributions and explains how to install the game from the command line.

Below, as an alternative, you will find a few cross-distribution Linux platforms from which you will be able to install the latest release of the game:

Official AppImage

We provide an official AppImage bundle of the game.

0 A.D. for macOS

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For macOS Catalina/10.15 or later

Download 0 A.D. Release 28 for macOS 10.15+ IntelTorrent file (1.670 GB .dmg file) Not working?Try the direct download instead. Download 0 A.D. Release 28 for macOS 11.0 (M1+)Torrent file (1.667 GB .dmg file) Not working?Try the direct download instead.

Read the Torrent FAQ if you want to know more about why we are using torrents.

Note: For some macOS users, the game can crash when opening the multiplayer lobby. If that happens to you, you can fix the issue by disabling TLS Encryption in Settings > Options > Lobby.

0 A.D. for Windows

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Download 0 A.D. Release 28 for 64-bit WindowsTorrent download (1.542 GB .exe installer) Not working?Try the direct download instead. Download 0 A.D. Release 28 for 32-bit WindowsTorrent download (1.518 GB .exe installer) Not working?Try the direct download instead.

Please read the Torrent FAQ if you want to know more about why we are using torrents.

Note to Windows 8.1 users and below

Windows 10 or 11 is required. Since Release 28, Windows 7 and 8.1 are no longer supported.

0 A.D. Source Code

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In order to build the game from source, you must download the unix-build and unix-data tarballs.

XZ format tarballs

Download the unix-build source tarball for 0 A.D. Release 28Torrent file (157 MB .tar.xz file) Not working?Try the direct download instead. Download the unix-data game files tarball for 0 A.D. Release 28Torrent file (1.349 GB .tar.xz file) Not working?Try the direct download instead.

Uncompress into the same folder using :

$ tar xvJf 0ad-0.28.0-unix-build.tar.xz
$ tar xvJf 0ad-0.28.0-unix-data.tar.xz\

BitTorrent FAQ

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To distribute 0 A.D. for Windows, we prefer to use the BitTorrent network. This page answers some frequent questions regarding BitTorrent.

How to download 0 A.D. via BitTorrent?

Install a BitTorrent client. Deluge and qBittorrent are two free and open source trusted applications we recommend, but you can use any client you like. All the screenshots we provide are made with the Deluge client.
Download the small 0 A.D. torrent file from our site.
Open the torrent file with the torrent client. You can review a number of options before clicking “Add” and starting the download process.
After that, the download of the real game will start. If a lot of people help us with seeding, it should be really quick!
If you enjoy using torrents and if you would like to help us with your bandwidth, please consider leaving the torrent file and the downloaded game where they are! Other BitTorrent users can download the game from you, thus reducing the load on our own server.

Why does 0 A.D. use torrents?

The easiest way to distribute a file is by putting it on a central server. Then all users can download it from that server. But when there are many people downloading the files, one server is not sufficient, and placing different servers around the world is costly. As a free game, we’re not able to pay for these costs.