# Nakama: The leading open source game backend for studios and publishers

**URL:** https://heroiclabs.com/nakama/

Nakama is the leading open-source game backend for online games — real-time multiplayer, social, competitive APIs. Trusted by 1m+ devs, 1B+ players. Apache 2.0.


## Nakama by Numbers

- **1M+
Devs**: Used by over 1 million game developers, studios and publishers.
- **2M+ CCU**: Proven scalability with performance tests up to 2 million CCU.
- **1B
Players**: Handles gameplay for over 1 billion players and counting.
- **11 Years**: Developed since 2015, with more than 100 releases.
- **1000B
Requests**: Nakama serves over 1 trillion requests per month.
- **$5B+**: Supporting our customers bring in over $5 billion in annual games revenue.


## Features

## Highlights

- **Open Source**: Nakama is the leading open source game backend framework for building online multiplayer games in Godot, Unity, Unreal Engine, MonoGame, LibGDX, Defold, Cocos2d, Phaser, Macroquad and more.
- **Real-time Multiplayer**: Nakama is equipped with all the real-time multiplayer and social and competitive features you need for your game - all customizable from the client and on the server with Go, TypeScript and Lua.
- **Competitive Multiplayer**: Make real-time client server multiplayer games, customize the multiplayer matchmaker algorithms, add daily rewards to your game, create leaderboards, add in-game currencies, add real-time in-game chat.
- **Nakama on GitHub**: Fork Nakama on [GitHub](https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama) and contribute to open source by reporting issues, suggesting new features, and following development.
- **Community Passion**: Join our passionate open source community [forums](https://forum.heroiclabs.com) of hobbyists, indie and AAA studios and publishers, and the Heroic Labs team.
- **Blog & Newsletter**: Read our [blog](/blog/) and subscribe to our newsletter for the latest open source and product news, customer case studies and tutorials.