Build in-game communities with Friends
Foster a strong in-game community with Friends
Community features can have a direct impact on your game’s success and longevity. By adding Friends to your game, your players can build online gaming friendships to help increase engagement and reduce player churn.
Power cross-platform friendships
Your players can build friend lists on any platform – across mobile, console, or PC gaming. Platform identity is converted into PlayerID by Unity Authentication, so relationships exist in a single game and function across any platform it’s published on.
Complete the social experience with other tools from UGS
Connecting friends is only one piece of the social puzzle. By integrating Friends with Lobby and Voice and Text Chat (Vivox), you can offer your players a complete social experience and keep them in your game longer.
Technical features of Friends
Friends lists
These lists are persistent in the scope of a game, so players maintain them across game sessions.
Presence
Presence allows players to see their friends’ status – if they’re online, offline, and where they are in the game if they’re currently playing.
Block list
Put the power in your players’ hands by allowing them to disable their Presence status for any friends they choose to block on their list.
Interoperability
Together with Lobby and Leaderboards, Friends makes it easy for your players to connect and compete with others.
Friends sample
Download the Friends sample project to see how a typical implementation of the Friends service works in a game.
Friends pairs well with these services
Lobby
Voice Chat (Vivox)
Leaderboards
Resources
Introducing Community Solutions to manage toxicity in gaming
Learn more about Unity Community Solutions – a suite of products designed to strengthen player connections, enhance safety, and enrich the social gaming experience.
Bringing the social experience to your games
Introducing Friends and Leaderboards to help developers of all sizes add a new layer of social experience for players to their games.
Help players create online gaming friendships and communities that last to increase engagement and reduce player churn in your games.