# Heroic Labs

Heroic Labs builds the Heroic Game Stack — open-source and managed backend infrastructure for game studios and publishers. Founded in 2015. Used by over 500,000 game developers and powering more than 1 billion players worldwide. The stack handles over 1 trillion backend requests per month. Heroic Labs is a Unity Verified Solutions Partner and an AWS Partner Network member.

## Products

- [Nakama](https://heroiclabs.com/nakama/): The leading open-source game backend framework. Real-time multiplayer, matchmaking, leaderboards, tournaments, social features (friends, groups, chat), player profiles, virtual wallets, and server-side scripting in Go, TypeScript, and Lua. Licensed under Apache 2.0. Client libraries for Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot, Defold, Cocos2d, and JavaScript. Proven at 2 million concurrent users.
- [Hiro](https://heroiclabs.com/hiro/): High-level game development kit on Nakama for shipping production-ready meta-game systems faster. It provides reusable economy, social, and LiveOps modules so teams avoid rebuilding common backend loops per title. Features include base/gacha/loot rewards, virtual store and purchase flows, rewarded video ads, inventory, multi-currency wallets, achievements, stats, unlockables, energies, event leaderboards, and teams/guilds on Nakama Groups. Hiro also supports personalization and experimentation via Satori integration, with analytics event forwarding for downstream analysis. Delivery includes C# for Unity, C++ for Unreal, plus a server package, with JSON-driven configuration to let designers and engineers iterate without rewriting core services. Typical use cases are accelerating retention and monetization systems, standardizing implementation quality across multiple games, and reducing engineering overhead while keeping extensibility. It runs on the same Heroic ecosystem used by over 500,000 developers and games serving more than 1 billion players.
- [Satori](https://heroiclabs.com/satori/): LiveOps platform for operating and optimizing live games with measurable, data-driven workflows. It combines event capture, identity properties, audience segmentation, feature flags, A/B and multi-phase experiments, remote configuration, recurring live events, messaging, and analytics in one platform. Teams use it to define audiences from behavioral events and custom properties, target offers or content at segment or player level, schedule calendar-based events, and track outcomes with metrics and alerts. Satori supports existing BI pipelines and can export raw event data to Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, and S3-based data lakes. It includes dedicated deployment and governance controls for studios with strict operational requirements. Satori also integrates with Nakama and Hiro so gameplay, economy, and LiveOps loops remain coordinated across one stack. Built by the creators of Nakama, it is designed for live-service workloads, including deployments aligned with Heroic ecosystem scale: 1 billion+ players and 1 trillion+ backend requests per month.
- [Heroic Cloud](https://heroiclabs.com/heroic-cloud/): Heroic Cloud is a managed platform for running Nakama and Satori in production with dedicated resources and operational tooling. Each project includes pre-configured game infrastructure: Nakama or Satori services, database, load balancers, DNS configuration, centralized logs, and scheduled backups. This removes the need to build internal control-plane tooling before going live. Teams can create organizations, manage projects, assign permissions, and invite collaborators from one control surface. The platform supports scaling from small footprints to dozens of servers within minutes, with rapid capacity expansion and no-downtime growth workflows. CI integration is built in for deploying custom Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, or Lua server code to running environments. Region coverage includes AWS and GCP in North America, Europe, and Asia, with additional regions on request. Heroic Cloud is commonly selected by studios that want predictable managed operations for long-lived games, continuous updates, and LiveOps-heavy workloads at large player scale.

## Case Studies

- [Pixel Flow (Loom Games)](https://heroiclabs.com/blog/pixel-flow-highlight-announcement/): 10M+ players
- [Gray Zone Warfare (MADFINGER Games)](https://heroiclabs.com/blog/madfinger-gray-zone-warfare-heroic-labs/): AAA Steam launch
- [Kwalee](https://heroiclabs.com/blog/kwalee-case-study/): Technical debt transformation
- [Star Wars: Hunters (Zynga)](https://heroiclabs.com/blog/star-wars-hunter-launches-zynga-heroic-labs/): Major mobile launch
- [Catan Universe](https://heroiclabs.com/blog/catan-case-study/)
- [More case studies](https://heroiclabs.com/categories/case-studies/)

## Products (Markdown)

- [Nakama](https://heroiclabs.com/nakama/llm.md): Open-source game backend — features, client libraries, and capabilities as clean Markdown
- [Hiro](https://heroiclabs.com/hiro/llm.md): Game Development Kit — economy, social, and LiveOps modules as clean Markdown
- [Satori](https://heroiclabs.com/satori/llm.md): LiveOps platform — segmentation, experiments, and event capture as clean Markdown
- [Heroic Cloud](https://heroiclabs.com/heroic-cloud/llm.md): Managed cloud platform — features and infrastructure details as clean Markdown

## Case Studies (Markdown)

- [All case studies index](https://heroiclabs.com/categories/case-studies/llm.md): Index of all customer case studies with links to per-page Markdown versions
- Each case study is also available as clean Markdown at its URL with `/llm.md` appended, e.g. `https://heroiclabs.com/blog/catan-case-study/llm.md`

## Documentation

- [Full documentation index](https://heroiclabs.com/docs/llms.txt): Complete index of all 400+ documentation pages with links to per-page Markdown versions optimized for AI tools
- [Nakama docs](https://heroiclabs.com/docs/nakama/)
- [Hiro docs](https://heroiclabs.com/docs/hiro/)
- [Satori docs](https://heroiclabs.com/docs/satori/)
- [Heroic Cloud docs](https://heroiclabs.com/docs/heroic-cloud/)
- [Client library guides](https://heroiclabs.com/docs/nakama/client-libraries/)

## Blog (Markdown)

- [All posts index](https://heroiclabs.com/blog/llm.md): Index of all blog posts with links to per-page markdown versions
- Each post is also available as clean markdown at its URL with `/llm.md` appended, e.g. `https://heroiclabs.com/blog/satori-databricks/llm.md`

## Community

- [GitHub — heroiclabs/nakama](https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama): 12,000+ stars, 1,300+ forks, 100+ releases
- [Community forum](https://forum.heroiclabs.com)
- [Pricing](https://heroiclabs.com/pricing/)
- [Book a demo](https://heroiclabs.com/bookademo/)