How Small Teams Ship Big Multiplayer Games

Team size isn’t what decides whether an online game works. These studios run on the same infrastructure as AAA games.

Bloody Bastards by Tibith Games, a mobile game hosted on Edgegap dedicated servers

Solo dev to 40M downloads

Tibith Games · Bloody Bastards

One developer moved a mobile game off peer-to-peer and onto dedicated servers, without blowing the budget.

Rivals of Aether II by Aether Studios, a platform fighter running on Edgegap

10-person team to 2-time EVO tournament game

Aether Studios · Rivals of Aether II

A platform fighter at EVO 2025, then a main event game at EVO 2026 with a record 1,022 entrants, on esport-quality netcode worldwide.

Kickoff Tactics by Birch Games, a FIFPRO-licensed football card game hosted on Edgegap

Small team to FIFPRO-licensed hit

Birch Games · Kickoff Tactics

Birch Games, an Istanbul studio, runs a FIFPRO-licensed football card battler: 400+ real players and 5-minute 1v1 PvP matches.

Dedicated servers, matchmaking and extensible relays across 615+ locations, billed only while players play. Solo devs and 10-person teams use Edgegap to ship games that hold up next to AAA.

Bulut Karabıyık, Head of Development at Birch Games

“…a flexible infrastructure model that could handle both predictable and unpredictable player traffic”

Bulut Karabıyık, Head of Development, Birch Games

See the Impact on more Indie Games

Drift.io cover: web racing game by Slipstream Games hosted on Edgegap

Web Game

Drift.io hit 50,000 players in 24 hours, at half the server cost

Slipstream Games

Loftia cover: cozy MMO by Qloud Games migrated to Edgegap

Migration

Loftia migrated its MMO in under 24 hours

Qloud Games

Zombonk cover: VR game by Sinn Studios hosted on Edgegap

Virtual Reality

Zombonk holds 32.5K reviews

Sinn Studios

One by One cover: VR co-op horror game by Dirty Pearl Studios hosted on Edgegap

Virtual Reality

One by One cut average latency by 58% for 4-player VR co-op

Dirty Pearl Studios

We Are Soccer cover: VR soccer MMO by Blue Duck Studios orchestrated with the Edgegap Fleets API

Virtual Reality

We Are Soccer runs its VR soccer MMO servers on the Fleets API

Blue Duck Studios

The Online Experience Players Expect, at Any Budget

Your players expect fast, fair matches no matter how big your team is. Give them that, and your reviews talk about the game instead of the lag.

Animation showing average latency reduction with Edgegap

+58% Average Latency Reduction

Animation showing Edgegap scaling to 14M concurrent users

14M CCU Rapid-Scaling

Animation of Edgegap’s 615+ server locations worldwide

+615 Locations Worldwide

Learn which game server is best for you

From the Insights · Edgegap Insights

Best Type of Game Server for Each Game Genre and Mode

Every multiplayer game has to answer the same question: whose machine decides what happened in a match? The answer shapes cheating, fairness, what happens when a player leaves, and what the game costs to run.

Start Small, Grow Without Re-Architecting

Add Dedicated Servers

Server hosting

Each match gets its own server near its players, from 0.25 vCPU, started on demand and stopped when it ends. Server-owned game state means no host advantage and fewer cheaters.

Keep Host/Client Netcode

Extensible Relays

Not ready for dedicated servers? Drop NAT issues with relays that run near your players.

Group Players & Deploy Worldwide

Matchmaking

Parties, skill and region rules, and backfill, set up from a config file. Players get into fair matches fast, even when your player count is small.

Grow Your Baseline

Private Fleets

Reserve hosts for your steady players with egress included, and keep Edge Cloud for peaks.

Budget-Safe Hosting, Rightsized to your Scale

Pay per minute of server use, with no fixed fees, so your hosting bill grows with your player count. Or add cost-effective, egress-free hosting with Private Fleets once your player base is steady.

Pricing

While you build & test

with no servers running

No reserved capacity, no minimum, no monthly plan to cancel. Edge Cloud from $0.00115 per vCPU per minute.

Modelled

Turn-based game, 1,000 peak CCU

$0.28

per peak CCU per month

$277 per month in total

69% below AWS GameLift (Gen6)

Players per match

vCPU per server

0.125

Egress per player

1.5 KB/s

Bare Metal ratio

Calculator run of 6 November 2026

Modelled

Shooter, 1,000 peak CCU

$0.93

per peak CCU per month

$932 per month in total

63% below AWS GameLift (Gen6)

Players per match

vCPU per server

Egress per player

7 KB/s

Bare Metal ratio

45%

Calculator run of 6 November 2026

Plug in your match length, players per match and peak CCU.

Estimate your monthly cost

Get your Game Online, Your Way

Let your coding agent do the setup, or follow the plugins and guides yourself. Same servers either way.

With AI

Ship it with your AI agent

Add the Edgegap MCP server or Skills to your coding agent. It writes the Dockerfile, deploys a test server and wires up matchmaking for your engine and netcode.

By Hand

Set it up yourself

Use the engine plugins, step-by-step quickstarts and sample projects. Every step is in the docs, and our team answers questions on Discord.

Works with your engine and netcode

Engines: Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot.

Netcode: Mirror, Fish-Networking, Photon Fusion, Netcode for GameObjects, and more.

It Already Works with your Favorite Tools

Keep the engine, netcode and backend you already use. Our reference integrations connect them to Edgegap’s dedicated game server hosting and orchestration.