Command & Conquer: Red Alert
1996Windows, macOS, LinuxPlayable
Runs natively on PC through OpenRA.
Project page on github.com.
Cover art and game details from IGDB.
- Original console
- PC
- Runs on
- Native PC
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Method
- RebuildA new engine that recreates the game without its original code.
- Status
- Playable
- Latest release
- release-20250330 ↗
- Last update
- Mar 2025
Listing updated .
About Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Travel to an alternate universe where dark experiments have permanently altered time. Or have they? Soviet tanks crush city after city while Allied cruisers shell bases. Spies lurk, landmines await, and strange new technologies aid both sides in the struggle for ultimate control. In this parallel reality, the mighty Soviet Empire has begun to “liberate” all of Europe. Cities fall and countries collapse before the overwhelming might of the Red Storm. The Allies are scrambling to meet the onslaught, but they have been caught by surprise. Red Alert puts the fate of the world in your hands!
- Released
- 22 Nov 1996
- Genre
- Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
- Themes
- Science fiction, Historical, Warfare
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Series
- Command & Conquer
- Developer
- Westwood Studios
- Publisher
- Sony Computer Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Dice Multi Media Europe, Sold Out Sales & Marketing
- Rating
- 85/100 from 374 ratings
Screenshots, summary and details from IGDB ↗. They describe the original game, not the port.
Command & Conquer: Red Alert port: quick answers
- Do I need to own Command & Conquer: Red Alert?
- Yes. OpenRA needs game files from a copy you own. PlayPorted links only to the project page and never to game files.
- Is the Command & Conquer: Red Alert port finished?
- Yes, the project calls it playable. Its last update was Mar 2025, and the latest release is release-20250330.
- Which systems does it run on?
- Windows, macOS and Linux.
- Is it an emulator?
- No. OpenRA is a new engine that loads the original game's data, so no emulator is needed.
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