Roadmap

While we're moving towards a major release, here's a few features that you can look forward to over the next few minor ones:

Short-term

Better authentication

Support for more authentication methods, such as discord, google, oauth, etc.

Accounts shouldn't be locked down to just Drop. We'd like to not only support username / password login, but OAuth, 2FA, U2F, magic links, and as many other authentication methods as we can.

Along with that, setting up user / group permissions are also planned, to give admins a more fine-grained control over who has access to what.

Connecting to multiple servers (client-side only)

Let users connect to and manage games from more than one server

This one is especially something that we've had requested from indie devs, but being able to access multiple Drop servers could lead to a much larger ecosystem where it's realistic for an indie dev to self-host their own games without Steam's 30%

Mid-term

Launch tooling

Open support for customising the toolchain with which your games are run with

While UMU is great, people often have specific configurations that we can't really account for out of the box. To remedy this, we'd like to open Drop up to essentially fully customised launch sequences for any game, such as setting launch args from the client, configuring, deleting, and backing up prefixes, or setting ENV values.

We also recognise the value in being able to completely customise the way that your games are run, whether it be by passing them through a remote-play app, an emulator, or anything else of the sort.

Cloud save management

Support for cloud saves, making it easier to manage saves across different devices and operating systems.

We're looking at using the ludusavi manifest to figure out relevant folders and files to be backed up to ideally any remote location.

Long-term

Social features

Support for social features, such as friends, groups, and other social interactions like current game status.

People don't always play games with themselves, and so we'd like to add a variety of chat features, friends updates, and other various features that can also be found in Steam's "Friends" and "Community" tabs.

Multiplayer support

Support for multiplayer server management, such as discovering servers, joining servers, and leaving servers.

Intended as a drop-in replacement for the SteamWorks API, we'd like to provide support for multiplayer support through the drop server, referencing the Goldberg Emulator, as it has the most complete collection of headers that we can find.