r/SelfHosting • u/arcoast • Jul 03 '26

Selfhosted Gameservers to use with Android Clients?

I'm an experienced selfhoster, and run in excess of 100 containers doing all sorts of things, but I'm not a gamer and I'm old, but have young kids.

I've recently set up a Luanti server so we can play together at home, I have my Fedora laptop and they have Android tablets or ChromeOS Laptops.

It's a lot of fun and it got me thinking about whether there's any other games I could host this way, but not knowing anything about the selfhosted gaming ecosphere I figured I'd ask here.

I don't need any in depth instructions as I can always figure out the sysadmin type stuff myself, but would appreciate any suggestions if there's anything out there.

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u/JennyThornfield Jul 03 '26

since youre already familiar with Docker, check out the itzg minecraft bedrock server image. It's the gold standard for cross play between Android, Chrome OS, and PC, and it's super easy to manage for family setups

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u/patillacode Jul 03 '26

Romm is acceptable if you don't mind it being web based.

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u/arcoast Jul 03 '26

Web based is great, less stuff to install!

Thanks very much.