Lila vs Luanti

Both are self-hosted games projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Luanti scores 86 against Lila's 73, putting it ahead on the strength of more recent releases. That measures project health, not feature fit — Lila may still be the right choice if it does what you need.

	Lila	Luanti
Health score	73/100	86/100
Commits (11 mo)	8922	739
Commits (last 3 mo)	2560	245
Stars	19k	14k
Latest release	31 Aug 2017	20 Aug 2026
Licence	AGPL-3.0	LGPL-2.1, MIT, Zlib
Built with	Scala	C++, Lua, deb
Typical RAM	2 GB	1 GB

Lila

Ad-less chess server powering lichess.org, with official iOS and Android client apps.

73/100

Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 40/40

Releases 1/25

Community 17/20

Momentum 15/15

Commit activity in the top 1% of tracked projects; popularity more than 87%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

Luanti

Voxel game engine (formerly Minetest). Play one of our many games, mod a game to your liking, make your own game, or play on a multiplayer server.

86/100

Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 29/40

Releases 25/25

Community 17/20

Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 74% of tracked projects; popularity more than 83%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted games.