TA-Reborn
Total Annihilation Reborn: a clean-room Rust reimplementation of the 1997 RTS engine. Plays your own GOG or Steam copy of TA on modern hardware: ray tracing, 20,000-unit battles, a cockpit in every unit, formations, lockstep multiplayer, replays to MP4, a launcher with ModDB mods, maps, skins and careers.
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GITHUB · launched Nov 9, 2026 · 15 upvotes (top 94%) · 0 views
Niche: video game source ports · 479 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -68% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- cavedog
- clean-room
- cross-platform
- egui
- game
- game-engine
- +14 more
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Could you build this?
No This is a clean-room reimplementation of a 1990s RTS engine with lockstep multiplayer, large unit counts, and file-format compatibility with the user's own game copies. That requires deep game-engine, networking, and reverse-engineering expertise.
What it would actually take: Start by documenting the original TA asset and map formats through reverse engineering, then build a deterministic simulation core in Rust with fixed-point math for lockstep netcode. Add a renderer on wgpu or Vulkan, with ray tracing as an optional path. Experienced game engineers, netcode specialists, and extensive testing against the original game are needed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 273 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #263 of 274 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 335 days after the earliest competitor.
- ReTzar · github · 2026-10-17 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- god-of-war-recomp · github · 2026-10-05 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- shogun-2-complete-edition-mod-manager · github · 2026-10-25 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- geometry-wars-retro-evolved-2-recompiled · github · 2026-10-11 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- gow-pc-port · github · 2026-10-30 · 117 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- gow-ascension-pc · github · 2026-10-25 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- ratchet-tod-recomp · github · 2026-11-01 · 87 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- cartoon-network-racing-recompiled · github · 2026-10-30 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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