Minus Games
Sync games and save files across multiple devices.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 1 commit in the last 90 days, latest release v0.9.19 (May 2026).
At a glance
Minus Games quick facts
- Health score
- 43/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 47
- Last commit
- 1 month ago (Sep 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.9.19, May 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Its primary purpose is to distribute, run, and sync games hosted by the minusgamesserver with the minusgamesclient or the gui, and it is designed for use on a home server. For more information, you can find the Documentation here. For a quick setup please have a look at the Quick Start Guide."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Minus Games scores 43/100, #18 of 20 in Games - Administrative Utilities & Control Panels: 1 commit in the last 90 days earns 1.2 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.9.19, 5 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 47 stars add 6.7 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 33.8 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 1.2 / 35
1 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v0.9.19 released 5 months ago
- Stars 6.7 / 20
47 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 1
- Last 90 days
- 7
- Last 12 months
- 1 month ago
- Last push
Ranked #18 of 20 tools in Games - Administrative Utilities & Control Panels by health , between auto-mcs (#17) and Lancache (#19) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Rust |
| Latest release | v0.9.19 · 5 months ago |
| Stars | 47 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | Accessory/minus_games ↗ |
Minus Games vs its top 5 alternatives
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| RomM | 97 | 14k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| GameVault | 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 |
| SourceBans++ | 80 | 377 | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | 4 days ago |
| Minus Games (this tool) | 43 | 47 | MIT | 1 month ago |
Minus Games: common questions
Is Minus Games still maintained?
Minus Games had 1 commit in the last 90 days and its last push was 1 month ago; the latest tagged release, v0.9.19, is from 5 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.