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Nakama

Open-source game server for realtime multiplayer and social features

Game Servers ★ 13.1k 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.

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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 13.1k GitHub stars

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