Lila vs Mindustry

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.

Mindustry scores 93 against Lila's 73, putting it clearly 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	Mindustry
Health score	73/100	93/100
Commits (11 mo)	8922	1756
Commits (last 3 mo)	2560	663
Stars	19k	29k
Latest release	31 Aug 2017	20 Sept 2026
Licence	AGPL-3.0	GPL-3.0
Built with	Scala	Java
Typical RAM	2 GB	2 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

Mindustry

Factorio-like tower defense game. Build production chains to gather more resources, and build complex facilities.

93/100

Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 35/40

Releases 25/25

Community 18/20

Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 88% of tracked projects; popularity more than 91%. 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.

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