GameNetworkingSockets: Networking for Any engine Active (<30d)

Overview

Valve's reliable/unreliable UDP messaging with encryption and P2P NAT traversal.

Facts

Category

Networking

Works with

Any engine

Pricing

Open source: Free and open source.

Licence

BSD-3-Clause

Last commit

2026-10-02 (16 days before snapshot)

Archived

no

GitHub stars

9,985

Official site

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets

Source repository

github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets

Data snapshot

2026-10-18

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