Zero Hour

June 1944. One squad. One chance.

Zero Hour is a World War II action game you play right in your browser, on a computer, an iPad or a phone. Follow Second Platoon from the streets of a small French town to a secret rocket base on the coast, the liberation of Paris, a train full of stolen treasure, the trenches of the Siegfried Line, the frozen Ardennes, the last bridge over the Rhine and a fortress high in the Alps.

What's in it

• 8 chapters, 76 missions, one story with a villain who doesn't give up
• Drive jeeps, tanks and boats, call in airstrikes, fight from the side in the trenches
• Sneak through enemy lines or go in loud: your squad follows your orders
• Hold right-click (or tap AIM) to aim down the sights
• 2-player co-op on one screen, and online parties with friends
• Controller support (Xbox and PlayStation), keyboard and mouse with key rebinding, or touch
• A short basic-training checklist the first time you play
• A model library with every tank, plane, soldier and gun in the game

Controls

Keyboard and mouse: WASD move · Shift sprint · mouse aim and shoot · hold right-click to aim · R reload · Q/G grenade (hold to see where it lands) · E use · 1-4 weapons · T squad orders · X airstrike · Esc pause. All keys can be changed in Settings.

Controller: left stick move · right stick aim · RT fire · LT aim · RB grenade · A use · X reload · Y swap · B knife · LB squad orders · START pause

Touch: left thumb moves, right thumb aims and fires, buttons for everything else.

Good to know

Zero Hour is a work of fiction. Its characters, units and places like St. Amiria and Pointe Noire are made up. It's free, with no ads and no purchases. Online parties have no typed or voice chat on purpose.

Credits: music "Heroic Age" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com, CC BY 4.0) and "Escaping like Indiana Jones" by Komiku (CC0); sound effects CC0 from freesound.org; voices made with Piper TTS (LibriTTS-R, CC BY 4.0); fonts Oswald, Special Elite and IM Fell English SC (OFL / Apache 2.0). The full list is in the game's Settings. Made with Claude.