Competitive Gameplay
From hyper competitive eSports, to running casual tournaments. Infrastructure designed for long term engagement
Matchmaking
Create matches for realtime, turn-based, asynchronous games or implement your custom gameplay.
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Tournaments
Schedule, advertise, and manage competitions that will take place in your game world.
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Leaderboards
Super-flexible leaderboards that let your player see where they are and which way is up.
Learn MorePlayers want bragging rights,
you want long-term engagement
Plug into your players' competitive streak by pitting them against each other. Match players, run tournaments, and maintain leaderboards to add a deeper dimension to your games.
Matchmaking
Bring opponents and teammates together according to skill, language, or any criteria you choose.
- Free text search for totally custom matches
- No limits on gaming model: realtime, turn-based, or whatever you choose
- Automatically filters out impossible matches
- Power 1 v 1 or many vs many matches
Tournaments
Tournaments turn your games into can’t-miss events. With a fully flexible tournaments system, you can set the criteria that make sense for your players.
- Launch instantly or schedule for a future time
- You set the joining criteria, from open for all to condition based
- Optionally run your tournaments as server-authoritative
Leaderboards
Fully configurable leaderboards put your players right in the heart of the action, at every skill level.
- Create unlimited leaderboards
- Track any number: fastest lap, most kills, quickest level completion
- Pinpoint specific players and compare against friends and similarly skilled competitors
- Find and blacklist cheaters
As a fast moving team, Nakama helps us rapidly prototype projects and provides a consistent framework for our teams to standardize around.
Jurie Wessels, Engineering Manager at Dapper Labs
Get started with Nakama
Build social, multiplayer, and competitive features into your game with Nakama’s scalable, open source back end.
Spin it up on your laptop or in the cloud to get started.