Luanti vs OpenRA
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted game engines & frameworks options
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
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Compare Luanti with
choose an app… PixiJS Phaser PlayCanvas Engine OpenAge Note - Age of Empires engine Retroarch Web Player Minetest Server Note Mineclone2 alt RomM TrinityCore Cocos Engine DevilutionX OpenMW melonJS 86Box EmulatorJS Spring RTS Engine Note - Beyond All Reason server Terasology Veloren Excalibur Retrom KAPLAY Crafty Controller Crafty Controller Note - mcrcon alt RconCli Gaseous Server Sapphire Server Aleph One Solarus VoxeLibre CMaNGOS Ryzom Core ct.js Mineclonia Chronoshift Note - Red Alert alt OpenRA-resources Mineclone2 Note - VoxeLibre server alt MineClone5 Repixture
Compare OpenRA with
choose an app… PixiJS Phaser PlayCanvas Engine OpenAge Note - Age of Empires engine Retroarch Web Player Minetest Server Note Mineclone2 alt RomM TrinityCore Cocos Engine DevilutionX OpenMW melonJS 86Box EmulatorJS Spring RTS Engine Note - Beyond All Reason server Warzone 2100 Excalibur Retrom KAPLAY Crafty Controller Crafty Controller Note - mcrcon alt RconCli OpenHV Gaseous Server Sapphire Server Aleph One Solarus CMaNGOS Ryzom Core ct.js Chronoshift Note - Red Alert alt OpenRA-resources
Feature Luanti OpenRA Category Game Engines & Frameworks Game Engines & Frameworks License LGPL-2.1 GPL-3.0 Language C++ C# Setup difficulty Easy Medium Min. RAM 512 MB 512 MB Deployment docker, bare-metal, binary, source docker, bare-metal, binary, source GitHub stars ★ 13,421 ★ 17,194 First released 2010 2010 Replaces Minecraft Command & Conquer, Red Alert
Why pick each one
Choose OpenRA if… Faithful yet modernized RTS Active multiplayer scene OpenRA details
Frequently asked questions Is Luanti or OpenRA better? Neither is universally better. OpenRA has the larger community, while Luanti is simpler to set up (easy difficulty). Choose based on the comparison table above and your own setup.
Are Luanti and OpenRA free and open-source? Yes. Luanti is licensed under LGPL-2.1 and OpenRA under GPL-3.0. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Luanti and OpenRA with Docker? Luanti: yes. OpenRA: yes.