Drop
Game distribution platform, designed for distributing and sharing DRM-free games efficiently (alternative to Steam, GameVault).
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 26 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.4.0-rc-6 (Oct 2026).
At a glance
Drop quick facts
- Health score
- 87/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 761
- Last commit
- 2 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.4.0-rc-6, Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
Top alternatives to Drop
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Drop is an open-source game distribution platform, similar to GameVault or Steam. It's designed to distribute and share DRM-free games quickly, all while being incredibly flexible, beautiful, and fast."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Drop scores 87/100, #9 of 20 in Games - Administrative Utilities & Control Panels: 26 commits in the last 90 days earn 30.3 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.4.0-rc-6, 12 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 761 stars add 11.5 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 8.5 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 30.3 / 35
26 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v0.4.0-rc-6 released 12 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 11.5 / 20
761 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 26
- Last 90 days
- 214
- Last 12 months
- 2 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #9 of 20 tools in Games - Administrative Utilities & Control Panels by health , between GameAP (#8) and LinuxGSM (#10) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | v0.4.0-rc-6 · 12 days ago |
| Stars | 761 |
| Open issues | 57 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | Drop-OSS/drop ↗ |
Drop vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Drop (Games - Administrative Utilities & Control Panels), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RomM | 97 | 14k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| GameVault | 90 | 328 | CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 | yesterday |
| Drop (this tool) | 87 | 761 | AGPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| LinuxGSM | 85 | 4.9k | MIT | 7 days ago |
| SourceBans++ | 80 | 377 | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | 4 days ago |
| Retrom | 68 | 2.1k | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
Drop: common questions
Is Drop still maintained?
Drop had 26 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 days ago; the latest tagged release, v0.4.0-rc-6, is from 12 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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