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GodotSteam MultiplayerPeer for Godot Engine 4.x | Community Edition

An ecosystem of tools for Godot Engine and Valve's Steam. MultiplayerPeer bridges Godot's multiplayer nodes with Steam networking. For the Windows, Linux, and Mac platforms.

Additional Flavors

Pre-Compiles Plug-ins Server Examples
Godot 2.x GDNative Server 3.x Skillet
Godot 3.x GDExtension Server 4.x ---
Godot 4.x --- GDNative ---
MultiplayerPeer --- GDExtension ---

Documentation

Documentation is available here. You can also check out the Search Help section inside Godot Engine.

Feel free to chat with us or ask questions on the GodotSteam Discord server.

Donate

Pull-requests are the best way to help the project out but you can also donate through Github Sponsors!

Current Build

You can download pre-compiled versions of this repo here.

Version 4.12 Changes

  • Changed: version bump to match Godot 4.x branch update

You can read more change-logs here.

Compatibility

While rare, sometimes Steamworks SDK updates will break compatilibity with older GodotSteam versions. Any compatability breaks are noted below. Newer API files (dll, so, dylib) should still work for older versions.

Steamworks SDK Version GodotSteam Version
1.59 or newer 4.6 or newer
1.58a or older 4.5.4 or older

Versions of GodotSteam that have compatibility breaks introduced.

GodotSteam Version Broken Compatibility
4.8 Networking identity system removed, replaced with Steam IDs
4.9 sendMessages returns an Array
4.11 MP chat state constants changed

Known Issues

  • Steam overlay will not work when running your game from the editor if you are using Forward+ as the renderer. It does work with Compatibility though. Your exported project will work perfectly fine in the Steam client, however.
  • When self-compiling, do not use MinGW as it will cause crashes.

Quick How-To

For complete instructions on how to build the GodotSteam MultiplayerPeer from scratch, please refer to our documentation's 'How-To Multiplayer Peer' section. It will have the most up-to-date information.

Alternatively, you can just download the pre-compiled versions in our Releases section and skip compiling it yourself!

To start, check out our tutorial on initializing Steam. There are additional tutorials with more in the works. You can also check out additional Godot and Steam related videos, text, additional tools, plug-ins, etc. here.

License

MIT license