Overview

Use Unity services to build, engage, and grow your game

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Take your game to the next level without having to worry about maintaining or scaling your back-end infrastructure. Unity services simplify many game development tasks and challenges.

Collaborate seamlessly and accelerate development with centralized workflows and real-time communication.

Asset Manager

Simplify how you upload, manage, transform, share, and access complex real-time 3D assets.

Build Automation

Automate your build pipeline in the cloud and keep development moving with Unity Build Automation.

Pipeline Automation

Create, trigger, and monitor pipelines with Unity Pipeline Automation.

Unity Version Control

Create efficiently with a version control system to help programmers, artists, and designers overcome game development challenges.

Integrate LiveOps services to boost engagement, improve iteration speed, and gain insights into your games and players.

In-App Purchasing

Configure and sell products in your app, including consumable items, non-consumable entitlements, and subscriptions, across stores.

Analytics

Understand game performance and player behaviors to build more engaging gameplay experiences.

Authentication

Authenticate your players with anonymous, platform-specific, or custom sign-in solutions.

Cloud Code

Write and run your game logic in the cloud as serverless functions and interact with other backend services.

Cloud Content Delivery (CCD)

Build and release game updates with powerful asset management and content delivery via the cloud.

Cloud Diagnostics

Use real-time error monitoring to rapidly resolve the bugs impacting your game’s stability.

Cloud Save

Track and store player data such as game progress, abilities, and statistics to the cloud, independent of devices.

Economy

Manage in-game economy with purchases, currency conversion, and inventory.

Game Overrides

Create personalized in-game player experiences and configuration changes safely, with guardrails in place.

Leaderboards

Let players compare their performance to boost engagement and competition with customizable real-time leaderboards.

Push Notifications

Send messages to targeted players when they aren’t active in your game.

Remote Config

Launch new features, test functionality, or make modifications without requiring app updates or code changes.

Triggers

Automate server-side actions in response to UGS events or on a schedule, without client requests.

Unity's multiplayer services provide a comprehensive framework for building multiplayer games, offering solutions for networking, server hosting, and player connections.

Multiplayer Services SDK

This SDK combines Unity's multiplayer services under one cohesive API, with a unified system for managing player connections and interactions across multiple services.

Multiplayer Services for Unreal

Unity provides multiplayer services to integrate with the Unreal Engine.

Relay

Securely connect players using Relay without costly dedicated game servers.

Lobby

Allow your players to connect before or during the game.

Matchmaker

Get a fully featured matchmaking service with low latency.

Friends

Help players connect with others to add a social experience to your game.

Vivox Voice & Text Chat

Connect your players across distance and platform divides.

Use cases

Example use cases of Unity services include:

Add multiplayer and social features to your game.
Use server-side game logic to ensure a level playing field.
Enable your players to access their game data across various gaming platforms.
Run A/B tests and measure gameplay data from various services to inform design decisions.
Deliver fresh content without updating your app.
Run scheduled events and provide varied content to your game during those events.
Engage players with fun, progressive reward and loyalty systems.

Explore the sample projects

This project contains a collection of samples designed to demonstrate how to use multiple services in a single Unity project to solve common game development challenges.