Best Multiplayer Tools

AccelByte

4.4 rating

AccelByte is a multiplatform game backend-as-a-service offering modular online services — identity, matchmaking, lobby, monetization, telemetry — with engine-agnostic Unreal/Unity SDKs. Founded by veterans of Fortnite, Xbox Live, and EA Origin.

Artifact Uprising

4.2 rating

Multiplayer roguelike dungeon crawler combining deck-building with action gameplay in a fantasy RPG setting with cooperative play.

Colyseus

4.2 rating

Colyseus is an open-source Node.js multiplayer game server framework with automatic state synchronization, built-in matchmaking, and SDKs for Unity, Unreal, Defold, Phaser, and other engines.

Nakama

4.2 rating

Nakama is Heroic Labs' open-source scalable game server framework with built-in social, multiplayer, and competitive features — written in Go with JavaScript, Lua, and Go scripting hooks.

Photon

4.2 rating

Cloud-based multiplayer networking platform for building low-latency cross-platform games.

PlayFab

4.4 rating

Microsoft's complete backend service for live games enabling cross-platform player connectivity, progression, LiveOps, and monetization across all major engines.

Zed

4.4 rating

Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. It features built-in AI-powered edit predictions, support for multiple LLM providers, real-time collaborative coding, transparent token-based billing, and customizable spending caps — delivering blazing speed with powerful AI assistance.