Nakama
Open-source game server for realtime multiplayer and social features
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.
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 13.4k GitHub stars
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