Live now · Red Alert 2 — Yuri's Revenge
Iron Curtain is a competitive gaming platform. It runs today on Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge — ranked ladders, tournaments, replays, live spectating and coaching — and it is built to grow: CS2 is planned, a game of our own is on the drawing board, and more will follow. Whatever you play here, you play it as one person, with one name, one rank and one record.
The roster
The full platform, running today: matchmaking, ranked 1v1 and 2v2 ladders, seasons, tournaments, replays, live spectating, custom rooms, community maps and a coaching academy. Built from scratch for a 25-year-old game that never had a real competitive home — until now.
Play todayThe same discipline on a new battlefield: honest ratings, real seasons and server-run tournaments — with the profile you already have. Your name, your class and your standing come with you on day one.
The long game. A title designed for competition from the first line — made by the people who run the ladder, for the people who climb it. More expansions will follow it.
Your identity
Your profile is the platform's spine. Everything you earn attaches to you — not to one game, one season or one ladder.
What's inside
Not a lobby list with a ladder bolted on. Every one of these is live today.
East & West
Red Alert 2's largest communities live thousands of kilometres apart — one across Europe and the Middle East, one across China. For twenty years they have played on separate platforms, on separate ladders, effectively in separate worlds.
We are joining them. The client ships fully translated — English and 简体中文, every screen, every message. One ladder, one ranking, one community — and matches between continents that feel like matches across town, because the network underneath was engineered for exactly that distance.
The best player in the world should be decided on one ladder — not one per continent.
Integrity
Most ladders are a black box. Ours publishes its rules — every one exists because of a specific way ladders get gamed.
Where this goes
To the players already here
Everything above was tested by a small group of players who queued through the rough builds, filed the bug reports, replayed the broken replays and told us, loudly, when we got it wrong. Every feature on this page is better because of them.
If you are one of them: thank you. You were here when it was held together with tape, and the platform will remember that — your seasons, your medals and your place in its history are permanent. Where this goes next, it goes because you were first.
For Red Alert 2 you need your own installed copy of Yuri's Revenge. Iron Curtain does not include the game and never will.
The client keeps itself up to date automatically. Windows SmartScreen may warn on first install — the build is new, not signed by a certificate authority yet.