Custom Game Backend for Live Service Unity C# Mobile Games

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Made with Metaplay

Save years of time and millions of dollars with a pre-built game backend platform that's like in-house, only better.

A complete game backend in one SDK

Purpose-built to beat in-house tech, Metaplay has everything ambitious game teams need to ship and scale live service Unity C# games, all in one place. It ships as source code with four key components:

Metaplay Unity SDK

C# Game Server

LiveOps Dashboard

Cloud Infra

Metaplay Unity SDK

Lightning-fast iterations

Code great games faster than ever with the Metaplay SDK Unity package. Write shared client-game server code, develop and test offline, debug remotely, and more.

Watch the short 1m25s video to learn more.

Metaplay Game Server

Designed for scale

Tailor your backend to your growing game and players' needs with Metaplay's fully extensible and programmable C# server. Server-authoritative by design and cheat-proof by default, you'll never fear for your game's security as you scale. Oh, and it's packed with pre-made features all the top titles need today.

Watch the short 1m51s for more.

Metaplay LiveOps Dashboard

Complete live game management

Unlock your own live game growth engine with Metaplay's LiveOps Dashboard. Get everything you need for driving engagement, retention, and monetization, like A/B testing tools, event scheduling, offer management, and advanced game config workflows. Built to be used by anyone on your team, developers, designers, product managers and player support staff love using Metaplay's LiveOps Dashboard.

Watch this short 1m43s video for more.

Metaplay Cloud Infrastructure

Grow with peace of mind

Build games that grow without having to worry about maintaining the infrastructure that supports them. Metaplay's self-scaling and self-healing cloud infrastructure is battle-tested on some of today's top titles, and is designed for efficiency at massive scale.

Watch the short 1m29s video for more.

Tech that's designed with top-tier games in mind

As experienced game developers, we know complex games need custom tech - and building that yourself is a huge undertaking. That's why we made Metaplay: so you can get all the benefits of in-house tech, without having to build it yourself.

Control

Metaplay ships as source code with a path to self-hosting, so you control everything and never need to worry about vendor risk.

Completeness

We know the ingredients of great live service games, and we've packaged them up for you into one full-stack gamedev backend platform.

Customization

The best games always need custom features. That's why every aspect of the Metaplay SDK is fully extensible and customizable.

Cost

Building an in-house backend from scratch is expensive. Our affordable managed service plans bring top-tier tech to serious studios on all budgets.

From prototype to production - and beyond

Start with hand-tuned game programming workflows for proving concepts fast, and incrementally adopt more features as you scale.

Step 01 Project planning & tech evaluation

Download the latest version of the Metaplay SDK and try Metaplay in a sample project. When you're ready to deploy to the cloud, start your Metaplay Pre-launch plan (€995/month).

Download SDK

Step 02 Pre-production

Prototype fast with local development workflows for online features, and deploy to your Metaplay-hosted development environment for quick testing.

Programming docs

Step 03 Production

Adopt Metaplay's pre-made featureset to get your game global-launch ready faster than ever, and easily extend our fully-programmable C# server with your game's custom features.

Game server guides

Step 04 Pre-launch testing & QA

Automate extensive end-to-end testing pipelines with pre-made tooling for simulating heavy loads and ensuring a seamless launch.

QA & testing intro

Step 05 Global launch

Deploy your game to Metaplay's self-scaling managed production environments, and keep everything running smoothly with our pre-configured observability stack.

Managed service intro

Step 06 LiveOps and player support

Manage and scale your game with Metaplay's LiveOps Dashboard - your complete live game control centre that's designed to be customized and extended with your own features.

LiveOps demo

Step 07 Path to self-hosting

With your game growing, we'll help you migrate to self-managed environments for full control of your game and your data, hosted in your own cloud.

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Features to take you from zero to 100

Ship fast, scale well, and never let your backend limit your game's growth again.

Metaplay for game programming

Tools and frameworks you'll actually enjoy using.

Metaplay for backend engineering

A fully programmable backend that scales with your game.

Metaplay for product & liveops

A better way to keep your game content-rich and boost monetisation.

Metaplay for player support & QA

Everything you need to deliver the best player support.

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For every ambitious game developer

Whether you're starting, scaling, or maintaining, we've got your back.

Metaplay for new studios

Build a company, not just a game.

Metaplay for growing studios

Scale your games without bloating your business.

Metaplay for large studios

Streamline game production and minimise vendor risk.

Metaplay has allowed us to scale the Drive Ahead! game and brand much faster than we otherwise could have. With our tech completely handled, we can focus solely on making our game better and our players happier - which is great for our growth.