This game is multiplayer

Open-Source Multiplayer Tooling

Build multiplayer painlessly with Game Servers, Matchmaking, and
Authentication. Customize endlessly using Backend Scripting.
Scale effortlessly with DDoS Mitigation and Monitoring.

Open-Source & Self-Hostable.

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Install Plugin

Create & deploy a multiplayer game from scratch in under 5 minutes.

Dedicated Game Server Hosting

Autoscaling & instant servers. Includes DDoS mitigation, monitoring, & crash reporting. Supports TCP, UDP, WebSockets, & more.

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Matchmaking, Lobbies, & Parties

Supports casual, competitive, MMO, and turn-based. Works with server-authoritative, P2P, & async multiplayer.

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Accounts, Friends, & Presence

Display friends online & facilitate playing together. Authenticate with email, username, or social.

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100% Modular & Scriptable

Pick and choose modules to use. Easily write server-side scripts & real-time actors. Database included for free.

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...and so much more

Analytics

Track and visualize user behavior data. (Coming mid-2024)

Auth Email

[INTERNAL-ONLY: use auth_email_password/auth_email_passwordless/auth_email_link.] Authenticating users with email only or an email/password combination.

Auth Email Linking

Link emails to users.

Auth Email Passwordless

Authenticate users with only an email.

Auth Email/Password

Authenticate users with an email/password combination.

Auth Username Password

Authenticate users with a username/password combination.

Chat

In-game player-to-player messaging. (Coming late-2024)

Currency

Track user balances and allow them to deposit and withdraw.

Discord Activities

Activities are a way to enjoy shared experiences with friends, such as games and media, on Discord itself.

Send emails using multiple providers.

Friends

Allow users to send and accept friend requests.

Game Saves

Store and manage player progress data or world state. (Coming mid-2024)

Groups

Group users in groups/clans/guilds. (Coming late-2024)

Identities

Manage identities and identity data for users. Intended for internal use by modules exposing auth providers.

Infisical

All-in-one platform to securely manage application configuration and secrets across your team and infrastructure.

Leaderboards

Track and display top player rankings. (Coming mid-2024)

Lobbies

Lobby & player management. Create & join lobbies instantly.

Parties

Real-time player groups. Integrates with matchmaking. (Coming mid-2024)

Presence

Real-time online presence for players. See who's online and what they're doing.

Rate Limit

Prevent abuse by limiting request rate.

Rivet

Open-source game servers & backend for multiplayer games.

Social Authentication Provider

Authenticate users with OAuth 2.0.

Tokens

Create & verify tokens for authorization purposes.

Twilio SendGrid

Get your emails to the inbox—where they belong.

Uploads

Upload & store blobs of data.

User Password Verifier

An INTERNAL-ONLY module to store and verify passwords by user ID. Used by some auth modules that require password verification.

Users

Identify and manage users.

Build Your Own Modules Modify Existing Modules

Powering play sessions
for FPS games

A Single Platform to Manage Your Game Servers & Backend

Manage running servers, see players online, view logs, inspect crashes, and monitor performance.

Seamlessly Built into Your Favorite Engine

Create & deploy a multiplayer game from scratch in under 5 minutes
Deploy existing multiplayer games using integrations with networking libraries
One-click deploys for playtesting
Includes tools for developing multiplayer games locally
High quality SDKs & documentation

Get started using Godot

Included for Free

DDoS Mitigation

Usually $10/server/mo

No downtime deploys & instant rollbacks

Usually $40/mo

Version history for rollbacks

Usually $9/user/mo

Log & metrics aggregation

Usually $0.50/server/mo

Automatic SSL for WebSockets & TLS

Crash reporting

Usually $26/mo

Other services ~$259.50/mo

Rivet $0.00

Need even more customization?

Custom modules without server hassels

Write backend modules with TypeScript, Postgres, and real-time actors. Auto-generate SDKs for your module to use in engine. Reuse modules across multiple games with registries.

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Access to low-level APIs

Build with low-level APIs for highly custom use cases. Includes APIs for provisioning servers, customizing networking, managing builds, and tuning DDoS protection rules.

Fully automatable cloud

Build custom deploy pipelines using Rivet's cloud APIs. Anything you can do via a GUI is available as an API & CLI.

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Integrated with existing tools

Works with your favorite tools & existing backends. Integrate Rivet incrementally without having to rewrite anything.

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Our commitment to open-source

Everyone who works at Rivet has shipped a multiplayer game. We've all experienced how much time & money is required to ship a game, and how much harder it is to maintain it.

We refused to use closed-source solutions that locked us in and failed to grow alongside our use cases, so we always opted to build solutions ourselves. To build the tool we needed, we knew it had to make it radically open-source.

The future of game development is open-source and we're here to lead the way.

Permissive License (Apache 2.0)

Audit security

Optionally self-host on-premise

100% crustacean-certified Rust

Trust no-one, own your backend

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