GameVault
Organize, download, and play DRM-free games from your own server, complete with metadata enrichment and user-friendly interface.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 47 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 17.1.0 (Oct 2026).
At a glance
GameVault quick facts
- Health score
- 90/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 328
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 17.1.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "What is GameVault? GameVault is an innovative gaming platform providing a self-hosted, source-available alternative to popular gaming platforms. It lets you and your friends enjoy DRM-free games stored on your file server in an organized way. Think of it as a self-hosted Steam. The project you are looking at right now is the backend server application."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
GameVault scores 90/100, #7 of 20 in Games - Administrative Utilities & Control Panels: 47 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (17.1.0, 3 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 328 stars add 10.1 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 9.9 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
47 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
17.1.0 released 3 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 10.1 / 20
328 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
- 47
- Last 90 days
- 139
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #7 of 20 tools in Games - Administrative Utilities & Control Panels by health , between Crafty Controller (#6) and GameAP (#8) .
Details
| Licence | CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 |
| Platforms | Nodejs, Docker |
| Latest release | 17.1.0 · 3 days ago |
| Stars | 328 |
| Open issues | 14 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | Phalcode/gamevault-backend ↗ |
GameVault vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with GameVault (Games - Administrative Utilities & Control Panels), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RomM | 97 | 14k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Pelican Panel | 94 | 2.4k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Crafty Controller | 90 | 255 | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
| GameVault (this tool) | 90 | 328 | CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 | yesterday |
| Drop | 87 | 761 | AGPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| LinuxGSM | 85 | 4.9k | MIT | 7 days ago |
GameVault: common questions
Is GameVault still maintained?
GameVault had 47 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, 17.1.0, is from 3 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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