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heroiclabs/nakama

Scalable open-source game backend server: multiplayer, matchmaking, leaderboards, chat, and social features for games.

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  • ⚠1 moderate-severity advisory on direct dependencies
  • ✓Last commit 1w ago
  • ✓15 active contributors
  • ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 38% of recent commits)
  • ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
  • ✓CI configured
  • ✓Tests present

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Repository brief

Repo brief: heroiclabs/nakama

Generated by RepoPilot · document generated 2026-09-13 · concise human review Evidence snapshot · analyzed 2026-09-13T16:32:30.370Z · commit 787d642aa233

Verdict

Healthy — Healthy across all four use cases

  • Last commit 1w ago
  • 15 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 38% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • 2 more receipts on the live page

Based on Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

What it is

Nakama is a scalable, open-source backend server for multiplayer games and social apps, written in Go. It provides out-of-the-box multiplayer infrastructure including matchmaking, leaderboards, chat, social features, and supports server-side scripting via Lua (via the embedded gopher-lua interpreter). It targets game developers who need a production-grade backend without building infrastructure from scratch. Monolithic backend structure: internal/ contains core subsystems including cronexpr (cron scheduling), ctxkeys (context utilities), and gopher-lua (Lua runtime for scripting). Lua support is first-class with embedded test suites (_lua5.1-tests/, _glua-tests/). Build artifacts visible…

Start here

Read these in order:

  • console/console.pb.go — Foundation: doesn't import anything internally and is imported by 31 other files. Read first to learn the vocabulary.
  • social/social.go — Foundation: imported by 14, no internal dependencies of its own.
  • console/acl/acl.go — Built on the foundation; imported by 5 downstream files.
  • internal/satori/satori.go — Built on the foundation; imported by 3 downstream files.
  • internal/gopher-lua/_state.go — Layer 2 — composes lower-level code into reusable abstractions (imported 8×).

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Verify the repository manifest and documentation before running setup commands. Based on the go.mod file present, conventional steps would be: `git clone https://github.com/heroiclabs/nakama.git && cd nakama && go mod d…

Daily commands:

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Key cautions & unknowns

  • 1 moderate-severity advisory on direct dependencies
  • Database requirement: jackc/pgx v5 in dependencies indicates PostgreSQL is mandatory; server will not start without a configured database connection. Lua version: internal/gopher-lua_ is vendored Lua 5.1, not…
  • Exact package version, compatibility, provenance, and deployment context still need project-specific review.

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