rivet-gg/rivet

🔩 The only backend your multiplayer game needs. Open-source & self-hostable.

Features

🎮 Dedicated Game Servers

Deploy game servers in minutes across multiple regions & clouds providers.

• Optimize for performance or cost, servers starting at $9/mo for 6 servers
• Auto-scales 90% faster than AWS GameLift
• No-downtime deploys & instant rollbacks
• Monitoring & crash reporting

Documentation

🛡️ DDoS Mitigation

• No added latency
• Supports UDP & TCP & WebSockets & WebRTC
• Automatic SSL for game servers (WebSockets & TCP+TLS)

Documentation

🌐 CDN

Asset delivery, game downloads, & website hosting

• Custom domains
• Instant rollbacks
• Automatic SSL

Documentation

🧩 Backend Modules

Write server-side logic using TypeScript (or use your own API server)

• Modules include matchmaking, parties, authentication, & more
• Postgres database included for persistence
• Powered by Open Game Backend

Documentation

🚙 Supported Game Engines

Engine	Plugin	Crash Course	Example Projects
Godot	rivet-gg/plugin-godot	Learn	Examples
Unity	rivet-gg/plugin-unity	Learn	Examples
Unreal Engine	rivet-gg/plugin-unreal	Learn	WIP
HTML5 & JavaScript	@rivet-gg/api	Learn	Examples
Rust	rivet-api	Learn	Examples
Go	Source	Learn	Examples
Other	Source	Learn	Examples

🚀 Getting Started

Self-hosting & development

See the setup guide to develop & deploy Rivet yourself.

Rivet Cloud

Rivet Cloud is the fastest and most affordable way to get your game up and running. Sign up at rivet.gg.

💬 Community & Support

Discord

Invite

• Lounge The Rivet team is remote and does most of their work in public Discord voice chat. Come drop by if you have questions or want to hang!
• #support Ask questions about getting your game runnin on Rivet
• #open-source-dev Ask questions about the open source repo
• #showcase Show off your game, get feedback

Releases

Stay up to date on the latest releases on X.

Technical release notes can be subscribed to by watcing this repository.

Bugs & Feature Requests

Bugs and feature requests can be submitted as a GitHub Issue.

Roadmap

We create public issues for most items on our roadmpa.

Subscribe to issues to get notified when they're updated. Add a 👍 reaction to issues to get them prioritized faster

📐 Architecture

We maintain a detailed architecture diagram here.

📖 Documentation

Game developers

Visit our documentation for game developers here.

Internal documentation

• About
  • Telemetry
• Getting Started
  • Debugging
  • Development Firewalls
  • Development
  • Project Structure
  • Rust Analyzer
  • Services
• Infrastructure
  • Alertmanager
  • ClickHouse
    • Readme
    • Troubleshooting
    • Why ClickHouse
  • Cockroach
    • Readme
    • Why Cockroach
  • Helm
  • Imagor
  • K3d
  • K8s
    • Tips
    • Troubleshooting
  • Minio
  • Nats
  • Networking
    • Edge Cluster Networking
    • IP Ranges
    • IPv6
  • Nix
    • Lorri
    • Readme
  • Nomad
  • Prometheus
  • Protobuf
  • Redis
    • Hosting Providers
    • Readme
    • Sharding
    • Tips
    • Troubleshooting
    • Why Redis
  • Rust
  • S3
  • SBOM
  • Terraform
    • Configs and Secrets
    • Readme
    • Troubleshooting
  • Timeouts
  • Traefik
    • Ing Job Sizing Methodology
    • Readme
    • Router Priorities
  • Traffic Server
    • Readme
    • Why Traffic Server
• Libraries
  • Bolt
    • Buggy Cache Purging
    • Config
      • Cloudflare
      • DNS
      • Linode
      • Namespace
      • Sendgrid
    • Debugging Services
    • Feature Flagging
    • Readme
    • Regions
  • Chirp
    • Error Handling
    • Glossary
    • Readme
  • Claims
• Packages
  • Api-Auth
  • Cluster
    • Autoscaling
    • Server Provisioning
    • TLS and DNS
  • Job
  • Mm
  • Upload
• Philosophy
  • Infra as Code
  • Licensing
  • Why Open Source
• Processes
  • Changelog
  • Deploy Process
  • Making Changes
  • Project Management
  • Pull Requests
  • Refactoring
  • Releasing
  • Versioning

License

Apache 2.0

Trust no-one, own your backend