Steam Multiplayer Networking for Unity

Authors: Erencan Pelin

The Simplest drag&drop Networking Multiplayer Solution for Unity. Using Unity Netcode for Gameobjects & Facepunch Steamworks.

Useful links:

• Change-log
• License
• Setup
• Docs

Documentation

Dependencies

The following packages are required. You may install them via the Package Manager in Window > Package Manager

• Steam App (needs to be running)

• https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/multiplayer-community-contributions.git?path=/Transports/com.community.netcode.transport.facepunch

• com.unity.netcode.gameobjects : 1.2.0

• com.community.netcode.transport.facepunch: 2.0.0

• com.unity.netcode.gameobjects: 1.2.0

• com.unity.collections: 1.2.4

• com.unity.inputsystem: 1.5.1

• com.unity.mathematics: 1.2.6

• com.unity.textmeshpro: 3.0.6

Setup

Install the packages above from the Unity Package Manager:

1. Click the + inside the Package Manager Window and select "Add Package by Git URL"
2. Copy & paste the above github link and press "Add". The package will be downloaded and added to your Unity project. It may take a moment.
3. For the other packages, Select "Add Package by name", then Cop & Paste the package name and version and press "Add"

Testing

Steam does not allow 2 of the same user online at the same time, in order to test the solution properly you will need to login to Steam on 2 different accounts, on 2 different computers.