GameWarden is a Windows desktop app that installs, configures, starts, stops, and recovers dedicated game servers — no command line required.
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Start, stop, and restart any server from the dashboard. No scripts, no terminal, no editing files by hand.
Detects when Steam pushes a game update and rolls it out across your servers with a configurable delay and player warnings via RCON.
Detects crashed servers via PID tracking and surfaces them on the dashboard so nothing slips by while you're away.
Set a restart schedule with player warnings sent via RCON before each restart. Servers come back up in a controlled rotation.
ARK server settings grouped by category — World, Players, Creatures, Breeding, Engrams, Mods — with a description on every field. No hunting through raw config files.
Live CPU, RAM, and disk stats keep you aware of how hard your machine is working before you spin up another server.
GameWarden is built by Krusty Studios — one developer, learning Java and game-server tooling along the way. It started as a personal project to make running ARK and Palworld servers less painful, and it's grown into something that might be useful to other server hosts too.
Built in public, shipped when ready. Bugs get fixed before features get added.