What about Unity Netcode for Persistent Data Oriented Multiplayer Game

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Hello,

I’m exploring the best service and architecture for my multiplayer game. I’ve been looking into Unity’s integrated solution, Netcode for GameObjects.

Let me share a bit about my project. The goal is to create an idle game, similar in style to “Shakes & Fidget” for those familiar. It’s a completely asynchronous game where players assign tasks to their heroes that take varying amounts of time, from a few minutes to several hours.

There’s no direct player-to-player connection. Instead, players are connected to a central server that processes their requests and simultaneously simulates the heroes’ actions.

The server needs to be always running since the heroes continue to perform tasks even when the player is offline. The number of tasks a player can pre-program is limited, and they need to regularly reconnect to assign new orders.

I haven’t found information on using a permanent dedicated server with persistent data in Unity’s Netcode, but maybe I haven’t searched thoroughly enough. From what I understand, it seems more suited for “temporary” servers for the duration of a multiplayer/co-op game session without data persistence beyond that.

Do you have any recommendations or advice on services that might be suitable for this? The target platforms are PC and smartphones.

Thank you for your assistance.

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You are looking at a REST API here. Not realtime networking. Netcode and similar frameworks are overkill for this kind of scenario, and may not even work at all because they require clients to be connected to a session.

A sessionless webservice is what you need to implement here.

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pretty sure you could do it with netcode, but it is a seriously like a nuke on a fly… you would make your life so much harder to do it.

As for the dedicated server, thats as simple as the database behind it…