Independent · EU · Est. 2024
REKT started as a couple of community game servers run for friends. It’s now a small independent group building games, developer tools, and the hosting platform underneath them.
About us
REKT is independent and self-funded. There is no publisher, no investor deck, and no roadmap written by someone who has never played the games. Everything here exists because we needed it and nobody else had built it properly.
That’s been the pattern from the start. We wanted better community servers, so we ran them. We wanted mods the vanilla game couldn’t do, so we wrote a framework. We wanted hosting that didn’t treat players like line items, so we built the platform. And now we’re building the game we always wanted to play.
Small crew, long horizon. We’d rather ship something we’re proud of late than something forgettable on time.
A playtester recorded 30 minutes cold — no help, no wiki — got shot by things he couldn’t find, and said he wouldn’t come back. Every fresh spawn had dead guns until you pressed Escape. We’d never noticed; we press Escape constantly. That’s what the devlogs and test builds are for.
Game, tools, servers, storefront. Owning it end to end means we can fix things properly instead of filing a ticket.
Build a mod, run a server, make videos — it’s yours, and you can make money from it. We won’t take a cut or bury you in conditions.
“Modders and creators: go make money. Have fun. We don’t mind.”
What we do
Each of these started as something we needed ourselves. They all still do.
Game development
Our game studio. Currently building Deep Black — a multiplayer space-survival sandbox in a procedurally generated galaxy ruled by two machine governments. Built in the open, shaped by the people playing it.
See Deep BlackGame server hosting
The hosting stack we built to run our own servers, opened up to everyone else. Instant provisioning, a proper control panel, and pricing that isn’t designed to catch you out. It’s also the no-Linux-required way to run a Deep Black server.
rekt-host.comPlugin & mod marketplace
A marketplace for server plugins and mods, built around a leasing licence model — you keep every version you paid for, forever, and stay subscribed only while you want the updates. Fair to the people who buy, fair to the people who build.
Launching soonModding framework
Our own server-side C# modding framework for 7 Days to Die. Hot-reloading plugins, a permission system, localisation, in-game UI — everything the vanilla game can’t do, running server-side with nothing to install client-side.
styx.rekt-gaming.comREKT Game Studio
A multiplayer space-survival sandbox in a procedurally generated galaxy ruled by two machine governments.
Spawn with nothing. Scrape together a ship, build a base, and decide what kind of spacer you are — trader, builder, pirate, or the reason someone else logs off angry. Everything is persistent, everything is at stake, and nobody is coming to save you.
Every ship you fly can be lost. Every base can be found. Your first jump out of the nursery brands you a deserter, and it never washes off.
mods/ folder and it runs at boot. The server is authoritative and there’s no anti-cheat to fight, so a server-side mod reshapes the game for vanilla clients.v0.8.11 In development for Windows, free while it’s early. There’s a public Open Frontier server running right now, or forge a private galaxy offline. Ten devlogs so far — read the lot.
Captured from the current development build — running, not mocked up. Ship and station models are still placeholder.
Growth
The order things happened in matters more than the numbers. Every product on this page came out of a problem we hit while running the last one.
Community Rust and 7 Days to Die servers in the EU. Active admins, handpicked quality-of-life mods, less grind.
Nothing existing did what we wanted server-side, so we wrote Styx and started building our own plugins.
Running the hosting stack for ourselves meant we could open it up properly — REKT Host and REKT Forge.
Everything we learned running other people’s games goes into building our own.
History
A couple of EU community game servers, run for friends, on the principle that grinding isn’t the fun part. “Less grind, more fun” sticks as the rule.
More servers, more games, and a Discord that turns into the place everything actually gets decided.
We start writing our own server-side C# modding framework for 7 Days to Die, because nothing else could do what we wanted without asking players to install anything.
The hosting platform we’d been running privately opens to the public at rekt-host.com — instant provisioning, real control panel access, and 24-hour trials.
A plugin and mod marketplace with a leasing licence model, built so creators get paid properly and buyers never lose what they’ve paid for.
The studio’s first original game moves into serious development. Persistent instanced galaxy, full base builder, and an AI war running across the map. Public playtests begin.
Full focus on the studio and the platforms — building the game, and the tools that make running one bearable.
Community
Devlogs, test builds, bug reports, and the arguments that decide what gets built next. Two servers — one for the game, one for everything else.
Devlogs, changelog, the live news wire from the Frontier server, modding and server-hosting help. This is where the game happens.
The wider community — platform announcements and everything outside the studio.