Why Tunnelcast

Built for game communities of every size

Tunnelcast relays two-way chat and live game events between your game server and Discord, with a live web Portal to watch and moderate from. Start with one server, and link more into a network when you're ready.

Who it is for

Made for the people who run game communities

Start with one server and a Discord channel. The same setup keeps working as you add servers, staff and games, and it leaves room for hosts and partners who build on top of it.

Server owners

Put your server's chat and match updates in your Discord, and let Discord reply in-game. One server is all you need to start.

Moderators and community teams

Follow live activity, respond faster, and stay useful even when you are not logged into the game server itself.

Hosting providers

Offer customers a more connected server experience with integration-ready tooling, clearer operational visibility, and room for value-added services.

Platform and integration partners

Use Tunnelcast as a foundation for custom automation, richer events, embedded workflows, and integrations that go beyond basic chat relay.

What Tunnelcast helps you do

Your server, your Discord and the web, in one conversation

A small plugin on your game server dials out to Tunnelcast, and you paste in one token to link it. There's no RCON, no log parsing and no ports to open. From there, chat and game events flow both ways between the server and Discord, and the Portal shows it all live in a browser.

Two-way chat with Discord

Chat, joins, kills and match updates land in your channel as they happen, and replies from Discord show up in-game.

Grow into a network

When you run more than one server, link them, even across games, so their chat becomes one shared conversation.

Flexible enough for products, not just setups

Start with built-in workflows, then extend with custom clients, plugins, and API-driven experiences as your community or product offering gets more advanced.

Positioning

Useful today, with room to grow

Today

The games supported today

Tunnelcast works with Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal Tournament 99, Unreal Gold, Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Garry's Mod and Valheim. The game client is a free download for every one of them.

Our promise

Free forever for hobby servers

Tunnelcast is free forever for hobby servers: the plugin, two-way Discord chat and live game events. Larger communities use the same tools, and over time we'll add optional extras built for running at scale.

What you can expect from the platform

  1. Get useful value quickly without rebuilding your stack from scratch.
  2. Count on stable day-to-day tooling, not just a long feature list.
  3. Use a platform that stays approachable for admins and extensible for products and partnerships.
  4. Run it on any supported game, with the game client free for every one of them.

The facts

Running, maintained and easy to reach

A few plain facts for anyone deciding whether to put Tunnelcast on their server.

In production since June 2026

Tunnelcast's first production release went live on 19 June 2026.

Updated most weeks

More than 50 releases have shipped since then, with fixes, new features and new games.

Your data, under the GDPR

We don't sell your personal data, and you can ask for a copy or delete your account at any time. The privacy policy sets out what we keep and for how long.

Next step

See whether Tunnelcast fits your workflow

Tunnelcast is in closed beta, so request an invite to run it on your own server. You can read the setup guide first to see what it takes, or get in touch to talk through a hosting, integration, or partnership use case.