RomM vs Sunshine

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

RomM scores 95 against Sunshine's 84, putting it ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume. That measures project health, not feature fit — Sunshine may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
RomMSunshine
Health score 95/100 84/100
Commits (11 mo) 4144 632
Commits (last 3 mo) 1714 211
Stars 13k 42k
Latest release 23 Sept 2026 27 Sept 2026
Licence AGPL-3.0 GPL-3.0
Built with Docker C++, deb, Docker
Typical RAM 1 GB 2 GB

RomM

ROM manager for organizing, enriching, and playing retro games, with support for 400+ platforms.

95/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 38/40
Releases 25/25
Community 17/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 96% of tracked projects; popularity more than 83%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 323 commits 2025-11: 347 commits 2025-12: 280 commits 2026-01: 200 commits 2026-02: 153 commits 2026-03: 331 commits 2026-04: 328 commits 2026-05: 468 commits 2026-06: 449 commits 2026-07: 762 commits 2026-08: 503 commits

Sunshine

Remote game stream host for Moonlight with support up to 120 frames per second and 4K resolution.

84/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 28/40
Releases 25/25
Community 19/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 69% of tracked projects; popularity more than 95%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 22 commits 2025-11: 29 commits 2025-12: 29 commits 2026-01: 45 commits 2026-02: 58 commits 2026-03: 87 commits 2026-04: 60 commits 2026-05: 91 commits 2026-06: 76 commits 2026-07: 66 commits 2026-08: 69 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 - administrative utilities & control panels.