What's new

Every game download now includes <YourGame>_Unreal: a plugin with Blueprint nodes and C++ for sign-in, player data, leaderboards, cloud saves, the economy, matchmaking and more. With Advanced, your dedicated servers get game-server nodes too: check join tickets and report how many players are on each server. Built and tested on Unreal 5.8. Unreal guide

The Windows program is now one self-contained file: there's nothing else to install. .NET 10 is supported until November 2028.

When a game server sent its own player count, details Omni Cluster had sent (such as the voice port) were lost. They're now kept. Existing backends get the fix with an update package.

Run your dedicated game servers on a Linux VPS (x64 or ARM64) as a background service, set up by a step-by-step wizard. Linux servers usually cost less to rent than Windows ones. Omni Cluster

Omni Cluster can run a voice relay next to every game server, and a ready-made voice chat for Unity comes with the download: voice activated, push-to-talk or always on.

Coupon codes your players redeem, and probability tables for loot boxes, daily spins and drops, as part of the Advanced economy.

Realtime rooms, lobbies and chat can share messages between several servers through Redis. One 8-core server kept 50,000 players connected and delivered 76,000 room messages a second in our realtime test.

Backends now need Node.js 22 or newer to run.

5 or 10 Advanced seats for less than single licences. Give each seat to someone by email from your account page, and move it when people change. Licences for teams

Leaderboard scores, presence and moderation need fewer database statements and less CPU, which helps most on PostgreSQL with several servers.

With several servers on PostgreSQL, two servers updating the same leaderboard count at once could block each other.

The first scores on a brand-new leaderboard could be counted wrongly.

In the game generator, ask “Would this be allowed?” for any path and player and get a plain-English answer before you download.

Free, time-limited passes for game jams, with team names, entries and prize licences. For jam organisers

Every game download includes a Godot 4 client (a GDScript plugin with an example scene) that works in every export. Godot guide

Every setting and check works before you buy, Add-on included. You only need a licence to download. Try it

Fewer round trips per request: saves and presence take half as many database statements, and busy servers answer faster.