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Games on Whales

Containerized cloud gaming and remote desktop platform

Remote Access & VPN ★ 2.2k stars Hard setup GPL-3.0

Games on Whales is a project for hosting low-latency remote desktops and games inside containers, streaming them to clients with the Moonlight protocol. It enables a self-hosted cloud gaming server.

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Key features

  • Containerized remote desktops
  • Moonlight-compatible streaming
  • Multi-user sessions
  • GPU passthrough

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-3.0 license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Active community (2.2k GitHub stars)
  • Written in C++

Is Games on Whales secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Games on Whales's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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