discord/discord-rpc

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1175 stars · 373 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A C++ library for interfacing games with a locally running Discord desktop client to display Rich Presence status, with plugins for Unreal Engine 4 and Unity. It has been deprecated in favor of Discord's GameSDK.

Use cases

• show current game status as discord rich presence
• integrate discord rich presence into unreal engine project
• add discord rich presence to unity game
• let players join or spectate games from discord
• implement rich presence via ipc sockets

When to choose

• maintaining a legacy game that already uses discord-rpc
• studying how rich presence ipc works as a reference implementation
• you only need simple rich presence and gamesdk is too heavy

When to avoid

• starting a new integration - use discord gamesdk instead
• you need maintained code with active support
• you need features beyond rich presence like networking or voice

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

sdk rpc game-engine plugin-system gaming-tools messaging-platforms cross-platform windows cpp cross-platform game-engine discord rich-presence ipc unreal-engine unity deprecated gamesdk game-development macos linux

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