Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Photon Engine

Photon Engine

Independent networking engine and multiplayer platform.

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The top open-source alternatives to Photon Engine are Nakama, Colyseus, and Godot Engine. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Nakama Landing Page
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Nakama

Nakama is an open-source distributed social and realtime server for games and apps.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #Developer Tools 15 social mentions
Colyseus Landing Page
2

Colyseus

Multiplayer Game Server for Node.js. Focus on the gameplay instead of networking.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #Developer Tools 4 social mentions
Godot Engine Landing Page
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Godot Engine

Feature-packed 2D and 3D open source game engine.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 460 social mentions
Socket.io Landing Page
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Socket.io

Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Mobile Push Messaging #Analytics #Developer Tools 734 social mentions
Unity Landing Page
5

Unity

The multiplatform game creation tools for everyone.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 204 social mentions
DarkRift Networking Landing Page
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DarkRift Networking

DarkRift Networking is a fast, flexible and superpowered networking solution for .NET and Unity.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #Developer Tools 1 social mentions
GDevelop Landing Page
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GDevelop

GDevelop is an open-source game making software designed to be used by everyone.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Game Development #Game Engine #3D Game Engine 78 social mentions
RenPy Landing Page
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RenPy

Ren'Py is a free and cross-platform visual novel engine that helps you use words, pictures, and...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDE #Text Editors #Game Development 16 social mentions
GraphQL Landing Page
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GraphQL

GraphQL is a data query language and runtime to request and deliver data to mobile and web apps.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Javascript UI Libraries #Web Frameworks #JavaScript Framework 247 social mentions
FastAPI Landing Page
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FastAPI

FastAPI is an Open Source, modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#API Tools #Web Frameworks #Developer Tools 289 social mentions
NATS Landing Page
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NATS

NATS.io is an open source messaging system for cloud native applications, IoT messaging, Edge, and microservices architectures.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Data Integration #Developer Tools #Message Queue 73 social mentions
Docker Landing Page
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Docker

Docker is an open platform that enables developers and system administrators to create distributed applications.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Container Tools #Rapid Application Development #Developer Tools 74 social mentions