Unity + Steam lobby system?

Hello all,
I've been looking into putting my game onto steam, my game would require multiplayer at most a simple P2P.
However I can't seem to find much online, about how to do such a task or where to even start.

So far the best I can find is this UNET connection with Steam which is awesome, but contains a ton of bugs as its not really the way UNET was designed.
https://spacewavesoftware.com/blog/2017/10/28/unity-unet-hlapi-and-steam-p2p-networking

So how does games like The forest, 7 Days to die, handle multiplayer?

I also found this http://blog.theknightsofunity.com/steamworks-and-unity-p2p-multiplayer/
but all they show is how to send a string of chars to another peer, which from what i see in the tutorial wasn't even done by a lobby, and doesn't mention about sending other data types and when reading the data differentiating what has been sent.

 

Bump

 

Steamworks.NET is what is used by 7days
im not a pro but they have a wrapper for the steam sdk you shuld start by looking at the info at https://steamworks.github.io/

 

Don't post things as facts if you don't really know them.

https://forum.unity.com/threads/list-of-complete-and-successful-projects-made-with-unet.519200/

 

You should consider to do not use the HLAPI as it is no more maintain (and will be removed ?!)
If your game is only on PC/Steam you can use the steamwork API you will get all you need
Otherwise you can still use the LLAPI and use the steamwork for the matchmaking for your steam build.

The forest is using photon bolt by the way.

 

It's been 2+ yrs, did you guys end up using which solution? Any example to easily kick start?

 

Since no one replied, I've been researching and decided to go with MLAPI + MLAPI SteamP2P Transport + Steamworks.net.
Alternatively, MIRROR + FizzySteamyMirror is also a easier way to go. We chosed MLAPI because Unity has recently acquired it and we hope it will getting better.

 

Hello, I'm using MIRROR + FizzyFacepunch on my volleyball videogame to make a match between people over Steam in lobby mode and seems good. If you like you can check how my videogame works on online lobby multiplayer, Cheers...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1360040/uVolley/

 

@IElectric, your game looks impressive, having all features we wanted to develop such as Steam matchmaking, multiplayer and VR.