The game

A classic RTS of modern war

Frontline Zero is a base-building RTS in the spirit of the great real-time strategy games of the 2000s: build a base, earn income from towns, industry and oil, climb the tech tree and put together a combined-arms force. The units are modeled on today's equipment, so a match plays like a modern one: artillery reaches across the map, air defense decides who can fly, and drones and jammers are one more layer to plan around.

Play as Ukraine or Russia in skirmish games against the AI, one against one or two against two, or online with friends. Every person in the game is fictional.

A command dugout: soldiers in balaclavas lean over a map of the front, painted in oil

What sets it apart

Modern equipment, classic strategy

Base and economy

Build from a sidebar, hold towns and industrial sites for income, and pump oil from fields that run dry. Money and power decide how big an army you can field.

Fires and counter-fires

Mortars, howitzers and rocket artillery outrange everything on the ground, but they need eyes on the target, moving units dodge their shells, and the other side's guns hunt yours. Shoot, then move.

The ground fights back

Dig trenches, garrison buildings, lay minefields: holding ground is cheap. Breaking through takes engineers and artillery.

Two sides, two ways to play

Ukraine plays precision, dispersion and adaptation; Russia plays mass, firepower and fortification. One readable set of buildings, two very different armies.

Air power and drones

Helicopters, jets, long-range strikes and drones, with air defense and jammers to answer them. Transport helicopters drop a squad behind the lines.

Classic RTS clarity

Units you can tell apart at a glance, a sidebar to build from, one-click orders and team colors on everything. Every soldier answers in his own language, Ukrainian or Russian.

Trailer and screenshots

See the game in action

The trailer, and screenshots straight from the game: the map, the sidebar you build from, and the units you command.

Watch the trailer

In the game: Ukrainian infantry and tanks meet a Russian push at a river crossing near Kherson; the sidebar, minimap and five selected riflemen — Kherson: the two armies meet at the crossing, Ukrainian riflemen and tanks on one bank, the Russian push on the other.

In the game: Russian assault troops and armor fight through the snowy edge of Vuhledar, a shell bursting beside them — Vuhledar in winter: Russian assault troops and armor at the edge of town, under fire.

In the game: a Ukrainian mortar team and riflemen fight for a sector among Bakhmut's streets — Bakhmut: a mortar team and riflemen fight for a sector in the city.

Twelve maps

Maps based on real places

Each map is modeled on a real place: the airfield, the tower blocks, the steelworks, the river crossings. Play them in spring or winter, sunny or cloudy.

Hostomel airfield from a drone: runway, hangar and pine forest — **Battle of Antonov Airport**Hostomel, 2022. The airfield on its rise in the middle, reached up ramps; pine forest and the Irpin river between.

North Saltivka's tower blocks and the Tractor Plant from a drone — **Battle of Kharkiv**North Saltivka: four blocks of tower blocks in each quarter, streets round every one, taken block by block; the Tractor Plant at the center.

Mariupol's city center, theater and steelworks above the sea — **Siege of Mariupol**The city center, streets round every block, up to the Drama Theater; behind it a steelworks of halls and furnaces in each quarter.

Steppe, canals and a pontoon bridge below bluffs near Kherson — **Kherson Counteroffensive**Open steppe and canals; the Inhulets along the front below a line of bluffs, crossed at the pontoon in the middle and a ford at each end.

The ruins of Bakhmut, its railway and the salt mine headframe — **Battle of Bakhmut**The ruined city down to the station at the center, the goods yard and its trains above it; heights on the flanks, a salt mine on its hill.

Farmland, tree belts and a gas station near Sudzha — **Kursk Incursion**Rolling farmland, woods and villages, the Seym behind each base; Sudzha's gas station at the center and border posts on the roads.

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The Azot chemical plant on its river island, Lysychansk on the far bank — **Battle of Severodonetsk**The Azot works on an island in the river; Lysychansk behind the crest of each high bank; a bridge, a ford and a blown bridge per corner.

Vuhledar's high-rises above snowy fields and a column of burnt-out armor — **Battle of Vuhledar**The mining town's high-rises behind the heights, one in each quarter; between the heights, open fields and tree belts, where armored columns were lost.

The Avdiivka coke plant, its chimneys, canal and settling ponds — **Battle of Avdiivka**Each side's salient: the coke plant and two fields, walled in by the canal and the ponds and held by one narrow neck.

Pine forest, logging roads and a forestry village near Kreminna — **Kreminna Forest**Pine forest edge to edge, a few logging roads and clearings, a forestry village in the middle; armor keeps to the roads.

Kremenets hill and its memorial above the town of Izium and the river — **Battle of Izium**Kremenets hill in the middle, the memorial on top and the rich fields at its foot; the town round the hill, the river behind.

The canal through Chasiv Yar between wooded heights, in snow — **Battle of Chasiv Yar**The canal down the middle, crossed at its culverts and by the roads; wooded heights along each bank, cut only by the roads into the town behind.

Free to play

No download. No install.

Free to play in any modern browser, on a phone, tablet or computer.
Skirmish against the AI as Ukraine or Russia, one against one or two against two, at six levels from Easy to Brutal.
Learn the game in Training: six short chapters, from moving your first squad to a full combined-arms attack.
Look anything up in the Handbook: every unit's numbers and what beats it, the tech tree, money and oil.
Choose the season and the weather; set the game speed and the sound in Options.
Watch your previous games back as replays.
Play online: rooms in your region, one against one or two against two, with friends and invites.

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A drone being assembled on an armorer's workbench, painted in oil

Pricing

Free to play, all of it. Supporters keep the servers on.

Free

$0foreverEverything that plays the game

Skirmish against the AI, unlimited.
Online multiplayer, unlimited: friends, rooms in your region, replays.
Training and the Handbook.
No ads, and nothing that buys an edge in battle.

Supporter

$5onceOn the website

The gold Supporter badge by your name, in every room and on every score screen.
Looks only, never an advantage in battle. One payment, for good.

The app

$4.99onceiPhone, iPad, Mac, Android

The whole game on your phone, tablet or Mac, from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
Plays offline: skirmish, training and the Handbook need no connection.
Makes you a Supporter: the badge, on the same account as the website.
10% of the profit to humanitarian aid through UNITED24, as everything we sell.
Coming soon to the Apple App Store and Google Play.

Why Supporters

Online play runs on servers: the matches, accounts, replays and email, about $100 a month. Supporters pay for them, so multiplayer stays free for everyone.

10% to humanitarian aid

Every year, 10% of the profit, what's left after all costs, goes to humanitarian aid for civilians affected by the Russia–Ukraine war, through UNITED24, Ukraine's official fundraising platform, to its medical and humanitarian causes. Each year's amount and where it went will be posted here.

Prices in US dollars, tax included where it applies. On the website, Supporter is sold by Stripe (through Link, its checkout), our reseller and Merchant of Record, and refunded within 14 days, no questions asked. The app is sold by Apple and Google, whose own refund rules apply. See the Refund Policy. Thoughts on the pricing? Email support@556games.com.