RetroHexChat
RetroHexChat
Retro Hex Chat — Self-hosted chat, spaces, calls and games
Your server. Your conversations. Your rooms, calls, and spaces.
Built with today’s technology.
Run your own server. Your data stays with you.
Chat, Spaces, private P2P calls, channel conferences, and retro games.
No corporation. No algorithms. No permission needed.
Your data. Your rules. Your community.
Open source project • Built with Elixir & Phoenix
Your community isn’t yours.
- Discord can ban your server tomorrow. No warning. No appeal. No backup.
- Slack charges for messages you already sent. Your history, behind a paywall.
- Telegram can be blocked in your entire country. One court order and your community is gone.
- Your data trains another company’s AI. You never consented.
Take back control.
- You own the server, the data, the rules. Install on your own hardware or a $5/month VPS.
- Private P2P calls and files. Direct between users via WebRTC, with TURN fallback.
- Channel conferences. Group audio, video, screen share, and moderation on your own server.
- Virtual Spaces. Turn any channel or DM into a shared 8-bit room.
- No corporation can shut you down. Open source, MIT licensed, community-owned.
- No “Pro” plan. No algorithms. Free software. Yours forever.
For private 1:1 sessions, the server only introduces users. Once connected, calls, files, and multiplayer game data flow directly between them — encrypted, private, and fast.
Chat, Space, or Conference — switch without leaving the channel.
Channels, DMs, bots, commands, replies, reactions, and moderation stay in one durable conversation history.
Space renders that same conversation as a live map: avatars move, messages bubble in-world, and the channel or DM stays the source of truth.
Conference keeps media inside the channel: participants join from the room, operators moderate, and your SFU routes the streams.
Games to play with others, from the chat.
Pick a game, then play against the computer or with other people. Games run in the browser and need no download.
Classic games in your browser.
Pick a game to see its screenshot, keyboard controls and tips, then press Play now. It runs in your browser, with nothing to download.
