Return to the yr 2000 with traditional multiplayer DOS video games in your browser

Chrono Divide is a fan-made undertaking which goals to recreate the unique “Red Alert 2” from the “Command & Conquer” collection utilizing internet applied sciences. The result’s a recreation shopper that runs in your internet browser, with no further plugins or functions put in.

The undertaking initially began out as an experiment and was meant to show that it was potential to have a totally working, cross-platform RTS recreation working in an online browser. Now, with a playable model already out there, the end-goal is reaching function parity with the unique vanilla “Red Alert 2” engine.

It works with a client-server mannequin (“say goodbye to port forwarding and firewall exceptions”), helps mods, affords each trendy and traditional mouse management schemes, and works “on any device and operating system, directly from your web browser,” together with telephones and tablets. You (understandably) need to have a replica of the sport recordsdata to play, although.

Further, there are leaderboards and a Discord server, plus modern-game-style “seasons” (with no monetization, in fact) that function particular guidelines and map rotations. So there’s a decent-sized neighborhood enjoying Red Alert 2 on the common in 2025, which is fairly wild.

Chrono Divide joins a handful of comparable initiatives in bringing older multiplayer PC video games with trendy bells and whistles to internet browsers. One instance: DOS Zone affords one-click becoming a member of of on-line matches of Doom, Quake 2 and 3, Unreal Tournament, and Half-Life: Deathmatch—once more, with a Discord server for an additional neighborhood layer.

So if you wish to spend your Friday evening reliving the TCP/IP and LAN get together multiplayer video games of the early 2000s, properly, there you go. I’ll see you there—I nonetheless assume Unreal Tournament is the perfect multiplayer first-person shooter ever made.