GameCTL

What it does

Backups

Scheduled backups support retention of the newest snapshots and one-click restore.checked 7 Oct 2026

Deployment

GameCTL targets conformant Kubernetes 1.28+; the project says it is tested on k3s and also works with microk8s, kubeadm, EKS, GKE, AKS, and kind.checked 7 Oct 2026

Deployment flow

Its guided per-game wizard generates inspectable Kubernetes manifests and shows the YAML before applying it.checked 7 Oct 2026

Deploy wizard

Per-game guided steps cover general settings, storage, networking, and review, and show the generated YAML before it is applied.checked 7 Oct 2026

Game catalog

The README lists 24 deployable games, including Minecraft, Counter-Strike 2, Valheim, Factorio, Terraria, and Palworld.checked 7 Oct 2026

Integration

GameCTL can connect to ProxyCTL to publish servers through its tunnel, with options for LAN, LAN plus internet, or internet-only access.checked 7 Oct 2026

Intended users

The project describes itself as built for people who run their own infrastructure and want repeatable, inspectable deployments.checked 7 Oct 2026

License

The public core is MIT-licensed; the README says additional features, hosted services, or extensions may be licensed separately.checked 7 Oct 2026

License and maturity

The public core is MIT licensed and described as beta software; the project says it is not a hardened production control plane.checked 7 Oct 2026

Live controls

Per-game RCON panels can change settings on supported running servers without restarting them.checked 7 Oct 2026

Monitoring

GameCTL provides server health probes, uptime and CPU/RAM graphs, and Discord alerts for reachability changes.checked 7 Oct 2026

Notable limitation

The README says GameCTL is not a hosted SaaS or a hardened production control plane, and its APIs, templates, and structure may change during beta.checked 7 Oct 2026

Operations

Deploy and delete operations run as tracked background tasks with phase-by-phase progress, and tasks can be cancelled from their detail view.checked 7 Oct 2026

Product

GameCTL deploys, manages, and monitors dedicated game servers on an operator’s Kubernetes cluster from a single Go binary with an embedded web UI.checked 7 Oct 2026

Purpose

GameCTL deploys, manages, and monitors dedicated game servers on a Kubernetes cluster through a single binary with an embedded web UI.checked 7 Oct 2026

Requirements

GameCTL targets conformant Kubernetes 1.28 or later; the README says its installer helpers are shaped around k3s.checked 7 Oct 2026

Security

During first-run setup, GameCTL creates a namespaced auth Secret, bcrypts the admin password, and generates a JWT signing key.checked 7 Oct 2026

Server management

The manage screen supports scaling, stopping and starting servers, inspecting pods, and viewing logs.checked 7 Oct 2026

Stats API

An opt-in read-only stats endpoint uses a separate token and signing key from admin authentication.checked 7 Oct 2026

Storage

Game data can use operator-declared NFS or local hostPath storage; local hostPath is effectively single-node on a multi-node cluster.checked 7 Oct 2026

Storage requirement

Game data uses operator-declared NFS or local hostPath locations, and at least one storage location must be configured before deploying a game.checked 7 Oct 2026

Supported titles

The README lists 24 deployable games, each with a GameCTL first-party server image.checked 7 Oct 2026