Requesting a game
We add games based on demand — not on which title has the biggest store page. If the game you want is not on hostboi.com/games, ask.
How to ask
Section titled “How to ask”Two routes, both read:
- Discord: post it in
#suggestionson discord.gg/YDzPDxKRXv. Other people can add their support to the request, which is genuinely useful signal. - Email:
support@hostboi.comwith the subject Game request.
A ticket in the billing portal works too, but for a game you have not bought yet, email or Discord keeps the support queue for people with broken servers.
What to include
Section titled “What to include”The more of this you give us, the faster the answer is a real one:
| The game | Full name, and a store page link if it is not obvious |
| Players | How many you expect at once — 4 friends and 60 strangers are different products |
| Mods | Whether you need them, and which framework (Steam Workshop, BepInEx, mod loader of its own) |
| Server software | Whether the game ships a dedicated server at all |
| Urgency | “We want to start next weekend” and “someday” get different answers |
What we check
Section titled “What we check”Before a title goes on sale we have to be able to answer three questions:
- Does it have a dedicated server? Plenty of co-op games do not, and there is nothing to host.
- Does it run on Linux? Many Windows-only servers run under Wine, which mostly works and occasionally does not. We test rather than assume.
- How much RAM does it need at idle, with real players? We boot it and measure. That measured number becomes the published RAM floor, and it is why some floors look higher than the vendor’s own minimum.
If a game fails one of those, we would rather tell you no than sell you something that runs badly.
What happens after you ask
Section titled “What happens after you ask”- Requests are tracked, and the ones that come up repeatedly move up the list.
- If we add the game, it appears on the games page with its own sizing page — no announcement needed to order it.
- If we decide against it, we will say so and why. “No dedicated server” and “runs badly under Wine” are the usual reasons.
We do not promise a date. A title can look simple and turn out to need a week of testing, and a date we make up is worse than no date.
Games we already host
Section titled “Games we already host”Twenty-three titles today, from Minecraft (Java and Bedrock) and Terraria through Valheim, Rust, Palworld, Project Zomboid, 7 Days to Die, Enshrouded, Satisfactory, Soulmask, SCP: Secret Laboratory, Killing Floor 2, BeamNG.drive (through the BeamMP mod) and Abiotic Factor. The full list with RAM floors is at hostboi.com/games.
If your game is on that list but you cannot find it at checkout, that is a bug on our side — tell us.