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#1 Open Source Unity Networking Library

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Mirror Networking

The #1 free open source game networking library for Unity 2019 / 2020 / 2021 / 2022 LTS.

Used in production by major hits like Population: ONE and many more.

Originally based on UNET: battle tested since 2014 for 9 years and counting!

Mirror is stable, modular & easy to use for all types of games, even small MMORPGs ๐ŸŽฎ.

Made in ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ with โค๏ธ.


Features

Mirror comes with a wide variety of features to support all game genres.
Many of our features quickly became the norm across all Unity netcodes!

Feature Description Status
๐ŸŽ› Transports UDP, TCP, Websockets, Steam, Relay and more. Stable
๐Ÿชœ Interest Management Spatial Hashing & Distance Checker to partition the world. Stable
โ†—๏ธ SyncDirection Server & Client Authority - per component with one click. Stable
๐ŸŒ Latency Simulation Simulate latency, packet loss & jitter locally. Stable
๐Ÿงฒ Batching Minimize message overhead via batching automatically. Stable
๐Ÿ’Œ RPCs & SyncVars Synced vars and remote function calls built in & safe. Stable
๐Ÿ™…โ€โ™€๏ธAllocation Free Free of runtime allocations and no GC (except Transports). Stable
๐Ÿ›ž Transform & Physics Transform & Physics sync built in. Stable
๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿผ Child Components Put networked components on anything. Stable
๐Ÿชš๏ธ IL Post Processing Zero overhead [Rpcs] and [Commands] via IL post processing! Stable
โ˜๏ธ Two Click Hosting (Optional) Build & Push directly from Unity Editor to the Cloud. Preview
๐Ÿ“ Snapshot Interp. Perfectly smooth movement for all platforms and all games. Stable
๐ŸŽ Fast Prediction Simulate Physics locally & apply server corrections [VR ready] Beta
๐Ÿ”ซ Lag Compensation Roll back state to see what the player saw during input. Beta
๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ General Purpose Mirror supports all genres for all your games!
๐Ÿง˜โ€โ™€๏ธ Stable API Long term (10 years) stability instead of new versions!
๐Ÿ”ฌ Battle Tested Mirror servers over 100 million players. It just works!
๐Ÿ’ด Free & Open Source MIT licensed without any restrictions to minimize risk!
โค๏ธ Community Join our Discord with nearly 15.000 developers world wide!
๐Ÿงœ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ Long Term Support Maintained since 2014 with optional LTS version!
๐Ÿ”’ Encryption Secure communication with end-to-end encryption. Preview
๐Ÿ“ Bitpacking Optimized compression (bools as 1 bit etc.) Researching

Architecture

The Server & Client are ONE project in order to achieve maximum productivity.

Simply use NetworkBehaviour instead of MonoBehaviour.

Making multiplayer games this way is fun & easy:

public class Player : NetworkBehaviour
{
    // Synced automatically
    [SyncVar] public int health = 100;
    
    // Lists, Dictionaries, Sets too
    SyncList<Item> inventory = new SyncList<Item>();
    
    // Server/Client-only code
    [Server] void LevelUp() {}
    [Client] void Animate() {}
    
    void Update()
    {
        // isServer/isClient for runtime checks
        if (isServer) Heal();
        if (isClient) Move();
    }
    
    // Zero overhead remote calls
    [Command]   void CmdUseItem(int slot) {} // Client to Server
    [ClientRpc] void RpcRespawn() {}         // Server to all Clients
    [TargetRpc] void Hello() {}              // Server to one Client
}

There's also NetworkServer & NetworkClient.
And that's about it ๐Ÿคฉ


Free, Open Source & Community Focused

Mirror is free & open source (MIT Licensed).

๐Ÿบ "Free" as in free beer, and freedom to use it any way you like.

  • Host Game Servers anywhere!
  • Customize anything freely!
  • No paywalls, no CCU costs, no strings attached!

๐Ÿค We are a team of professional game developers, who are paid to use Mirror in production. Our incentives will always align with the community, because we are Mirror users just like you!

โค๏ธ Our fantastic community of over 14,000 users contributes feedback & improvements every day. Please join us on our journey, help others, and consider a Donation if you love our work!

The top quote is from Fitzcarraldo, which is quite reminiscent of this project.


Getting Started

Get Unity 2019 / 2020 / 2021 / 2022 LTS, Download Mirror, open one of the examples & press Play!

Check out our Documentation to learn how it all works.

If you are migrating from UNET, then please check out our Migration Guide.


Mirror LTS (Long Term Support)

Mirror LTS is available on the Asset Store.

Mirror LTS gives you peace of mind to run your game in production. Without any breaking changes, ever!

  • Bug fixes only.
  • Consistent API: update any time, without any breaking features.
  • Lives along side Unity 2019/2020/2021 LTS.
  • Supported for two years at a time.

Made with Mirror

Population: ONE The BigBoxVR team started using Mirror in February 2019 for what eventually became one of the most popular Oculus Rift games.

In addition to 24/7 support from the Mirror team, BigBoxVR also hired one of our engineers.

Population: ONE was acquired by Meta in June 2021, and they've just released a new Sandbox addon in 2022!

Zooba Wildlife Studio's hit Zooba made it to rank #5 of the largest battle royal shooters in the U.S. mobile market.

The game has over 100 million downloads on Google Play, with Wildlife Studios as one of the top 10 largest mobile gaming companies in the world.

swarmvr_compressed SPIDER-MAN WITH GUNS!

SWARM is a fast-paced, arcade-style grapple shooter, with quick sessions, bright colorful worlds and globally competitive leaderboards that will take you back to the glory days of Arcade Games.

Available for the Meta Quest, made with Mirror.

Castaways Castaways is a sandbox game where you are castaway to a small remote island where you must work with others to survive and build a thriving new civilization.

Castaway runs in the Browser, thanks to Mirror's WebGL support.

nimoyd_smaller Nudge Nudge Games' first title: the colorful, post-apocalyptic open world sandbox game Nimoyd is being developed with Mirror.

Soon to be released for PC & mobile!

unleashed From original devs of World of Warcraft, Kingdoms of Amalur, and EverQuest comes a new family friendly fantasy adventure. Fight against the forces of darkness, explore a world consumed by wild magic, and build a stronghold with your friends to increase your power in a new world.

Lead by industry veterans Brian Birmingham & Irena Pereira, Unleashed is developing their next gen adventure game made with Mirror!

Follow them on X: https://twitter.com/UnleashingGames/

dinkum Set in the Australian Outback, Dinkum is a relaxing farming & survival game. Made by just one developer, Dinkum already reached 1000+ "Overwhelmingly Positive" reviews 1 week after its early access release.

James Bendon initially made the game with UNET, and then switched to Mirror in 2019.

a glimpse of luna A Glimpse of Luna - a tactical multiplayer card battle game with the most beautiful concept art & soundtrack.

Made with Mirror by two brothers with no prior game development experience.

havoc fps game Havoc is a tactical team-based first-person shooter with a fully destructible environment and a unique art style. Havoc has been one of our favorite made-with-Mirror games for a few years now, and we are excited to finally see it up there on Steam.

sun haven Sun Haven - A beautiful human town, a hidden elven village, and a monster city filled with farming, magic, dragons, and adventure.

After their successful Kickstarter, Sun Haven was released on Steam in 2021 and later on ported to Mirror in 2022.

A Township Tale A Township Tale is an immersive VR experience, where you can build towns and explore worlds with your friends.

Made with our KCP transport, available on the Meta Quest Store with over 6000+ ratings.

Inferna MMORPG One of the first MMORPGs made with Mirror, released in 2019.

An open world experience with over 1000 CCU during its peak, spread across multiple server instances.

samutale A sandbox survival samurai MMORPG, originally released in September 2016.

Later on, the Netherlands based Maple Media switched their netcode to Mirror.

image Pixel Art Dungeon MMORPG reaching 5000 CCU at peak times.

Originally developed as a single-player idle game, it underwent a transition to an MMORPG three months before release thanks to Mirror!

Untamed Isles The turn based, monster taming MMORPG Untamed Isles is currently being developed by Phat Loot Studios.

After their successful Kickstarter, the New Zealand based studio is aiming for a 2022 release date.

Portals Animal Crossing meets Yakuza meets Minecraft โ€” a city builder with a multiplayer central hub. Gather, trade and build โ€” all in the browser!

scp - secret laboratory_smaller Northwood Studios' first title: the multiplayer horror game SCP: Secret Laboratory was one of Mirror's early adopters.

Released in December 2017, today it has more than 140,000 reviews on Steam.

Naica Online Naรฏca is a beautiful, free to play 2D pixel art MMORPG.

The France based team was one of Mirror's early adopters, releasing their first public beta in November 2020.

Laurum Online Laurum Online - a 2D retro mobile MMORPG with over 500,000 downloads on Google Play.

Empires Mobile Empires Mobile - Retro mobile MMORPG for Android and iOS, reaching 5000 CCU at times. Check out their video for some early MMORPG nostalgia.

Overpowered Overwpowered, the exciting new card game that combines strategy, myth, and fun into one riveting web-based experience. Launched in 2023, made with Mirror!

And many more...

Modular Transports

Mirror uses KCP (reliable UDP) by default, but you may use any of our community transports for low level packet sending:

Benchmarks

Development & Contributing

Mirror is used in production by everything from small indie projects to million dollar funded games that will run for a decade or more.

We prefer to work slow & thoroughly in order to not break everyone's games ๐ŸŒ.

Therefore, we need to KISS ๐Ÿ˜—.


Information Security

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Mirror-Networking follows common information security industry standards & best practices.

Mirror is free open source software (MIT Licensed), with over 80% test coverage. The company is located in Germany. We do not collect any user data, impose no restrictions on users & developers, or rely on any closed source dependencies other than Unity.

This makes Mirror an attractive choice for government agencies and large corporations with strict information security requirements.

Feel free to reach out to business [at] mirror-networking.com if you have any questions, or need to review any of our policies:

  • Development best Practices and SDLC.pdf
  • Disaster Recovery Procedure.pdf
  • Document Retention and Destruction Policy.pdf
  • Encryption Policy.pdf
  • Information Security Guidelines.pdf
  • Privacy Policy
  • Security Policy
  • Vulnerability Management Policy.pdf

Please reach out if you decide to use Mirror.

We are excited to hear about your project, and happy to help if needed!


Incident Response & Bug Bounty

A lot of projects use Mirror in production. If you found a critical bug / exploit in Mirror core, please follow the steps outlined in our Security Policy.

Credits / past findings / fixes:


Credits & Thanks ๐Ÿ™

๐Ÿชž Alexey Abramychev (UNET)
๐Ÿชž Alan
๐Ÿชž c6burns
๐Ÿชž Coburn
๐Ÿชž cooper
๐Ÿชž FakeByte
๐Ÿชž fholm
๐Ÿชž Gabe (BigBoxVR)
๐Ÿชž imer
๐Ÿชž James Frowen
๐Ÿชž JesusLuvsYooh
๐Ÿชž Mischa
๐Ÿชž Mr. Gadget
๐Ÿชž NinjaKickja
๐Ÿชž Paul Pacheco
๐Ÿชž Sean Riley (UNET)

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