Games on Whales
Containerized cloud gaming and remote desktop platform
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.
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 (2.1k GitHub stars)
- Written in C++
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