Luanti 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 Luanti's 86, putting it slightly ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume. That measures project health, not feature fit — Luanti may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
LuantiMindustry
Health score 86/100 93/100
Commits (11 mo) 739 1756
Commits (last 3 mo) 245 663
Stars 14k 29k
Latest release 20 Aug 2026 20 Sept 2026
Licence LGPL-2.1, MIT, Zlib GPL-3.0
Built with C++, Lua, deb Java
Typical RAM 1 GB 2 GB

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

2025-10: 69 commits 2025-11: 64 commits 2025-12: 38 commits 2026-01: 110 commits 2026-02: 56 commits 2026-03: 36 commits 2026-04: 48 commits 2026-05: 73 commits 2026-06: 48 commits 2026-07: 50 commits 2026-08: 147 commits

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

2025-10: 101 commits 2025-11: 63 commits 2025-12: 149 commits 2026-01: 97 commits 2026-02: 175 commits 2026-03: 183 commits 2026-04: 187 commits 2026-05: 138 commits 2026-06: 178 commits 2026-07: 246 commits 2026-08: 239 commits

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.