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Lobby properties

This article describes custom properties stored on the lobby. Use this functionality to store metadata about the game sessions that your lobby’s represent.

Predefined properties

Each lobby has a set of predefined properties commonly needed for most game scenarios.

Custom Properties

There are three types of custom properties that titles can define.
  1. Custom lobby properties
    • These properties apply to the whole lobby.
    • Only members of the lobby can see these properties.
    • Only the owner of the lobby can change these properties.
  2. Custom member properties
    • There’s a unique map of member properties for each member in the lobby
    • Only members of the lobby can see these properties.
    • All members of the lobby can see every other members’ properties.
    • Each member may modify their own member properties but can’t modify another member’s properties.
    • Once a member leaves the lobby, their member properties are deleted from the lobby.
  3. Custom search properties.
    • These are special properties which can be used by all players in your title to search for lobbies matching a specific criteria.
    • These properties apply to the whole lobby.
    • Only the owner of the lobby can change these properties.
    • There are restrictions on what keys you can use for these properties.
    • To learn more, see Create searchable lobbies.
All properties are maps of key-value pairs.

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Last modified on August 4, 2026