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Nakama

Open-source game server for realtime multiplayer and social features

Game Servers ★ 13.5k stars Medium setup Apache-2.0

Nakama is an open-source server for building social and realtime games and apps, providing user accounts, matchmaking, realtime multiplayer, chat, leaderboards, and storage. It is fully self-hostable as a game backend.

Official siteSource code

Key features

  • Realtime multiplayer and chat
  • Matchmaking and leaderboards
  • User accounts and storage
  • Server-side scripting

Strengths

  • Released under the Apache-2.0 license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Kubernetes-ready with Helm charts available
  • Mature project with 13.5k GitHub stars

Is Nakama secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Nakama's latest release (v3.41.0). OSV.dev lists 2 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2022-2306, published 2022-07-05 (1562 days ago), fixed in 3.13.0

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

Nakama replaces

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