How much does it cost to host a multiplayer game?

Hello everyone,

I am pretty new to game development, I am thinking about making a simple multiplayer game with a friend or two, nothing huge scale, maybe 5 v 5 in each game.

I am just curious how much it costs to host… I understand the more players the more pricey the server cost will be but does anyone know how much?

Are we talking hundreds, thousands?

And does it have to be a dedicated server or is p2p still a thing these days?

Thanks in advance.

If you’re letting one of the players be the host then it’s free, depends on the gameplay you want and if it’s possible for a player to host the game, for example a battle royale type would not be suitable as the host might die and leave the game
Another thing you can do is to let people host their own dedicated servers

Hi,

Thanks for the reply :slight_smile:

What about host migration?

That’s not available in ue4 out of the box, you’d have to implement it yourself somehow

You could check this plugin on marketplace:

Which will drive you to a free testing hosting service and test everything by yourself and decide:

Anyway, here you can find info about dedicated servers in UE:

Hope this helps!