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

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

Documentation

Asset delivery, game downloads, & website hosting

• Custom domains
• Instant rollbacks
• Automatic SSL

Documentation

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

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.

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

We maintain a detailed architecture diagram here.

Visit our documentation for game developers here.

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