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Rune

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Rune is the best place to talk and play multiplayer games with your friends. Users hang out on Rune’s mobile app, sharing laughs on our voice chat as they play amazing indie multiplayer games together! And developers build these games right on the Rune platform. Developers leverage the Rune SDK to build multiplayer games without needing a single

Founded 2018Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Rune is the best place to talk and play multiplayer games with your friends. Users hang out on Rune’s mobile app, sharing laughs on our voice chat as they play amazing indie multiplayer games together! And developers build these games right on the Rune platform.

Developers leverage the Rune SDK to build multiplayer games without needing a single line of backend code. They launch their game on Rune and instantly, thousands of passionate friend groups play it together on voice chat right inside the Rune app! Rune's beta has grown rapidly, with over 50 games built for the platform ranging from multiplayer mini-golf to real-time 3D racing games. The SDK supercharges game creation, with many of our games built in under a week! And these games are played like crazy too — friends have spent over 50 million minutes hanging out and playing our new games together already.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Product & workflow

Rune Cloud hosts your games for free Our AI builds games that seamlessly integrate with Rune's global infrastructure, scaling to millions of players effortlessly.

Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-23

Founders & team

Previously Rune, dusk

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Sanjay Guruprasad

Founder

Sanjay's been hacking away on a computer as far back as he can remember (perks of his mom and dad both being programmers). He studied Physics at IIT Madras and was working towards a PhD on Network Effects at MIT before dropping out to start Rune. Rune combines all his passions -- gaming, social networks and some hardcore Software engineering. Outside of work, Sanjay loves to run, bike, play the guitar and of course code some more / blog about coding :)

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Founded 2018 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedNew York City, NY, USA
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