Aside from Wireguard, you have Wireguard alternatives-but-not-really-since-they-are-based-on-Wireguard like Netbird and Tailscale. The latter is more well-known, but the main downside is that, to connect to the cloud servers, you need a Google, Microsoft, or Github account to login. It can be self-hosted with Headscale (community project) though (and you don't need an account for that, since it's your hardware)! Netbird is similar to Tailscale, but you can use normal email login to use their cloud servers, and they offer official self-hosting support.

It looks like a VPN, just reskinned as-a-service.

If manual Wireguard is giving you trouble, try Netbird.

Use Tailscale, it's stupid simple. it is a Wireguard wrapper anyways.

i usually connect two machines with tailscale and use ssh forwarding

use autossh if you want auto reconnect after ssh disconnects with broken pipe

Why do you need a VPN if you're just trying to expose game servers to the public?

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You probably don't want to do this. People will get salty and DDOS your server. I ran a KF2 server for like 5 years and eventually the traffic overwhelmed my connection and I had to stop.

@mrmaplebar might still be too complicated, but maybe take a look at https://github.com/fatedier/frp

You could look at pangolin as well. There's a number of guides on YouTube. Essentially a wire guard tunnel to your VPS.

Netbird self-host. Install it on the VPS, add the server as a client, network the appropriate ports using their services, expose the required port via TCP or UDP in the docker deployment and reverse proxy.

Pangolin would work, it's still wireguard underneath but with a webUI to set up things and simplify it. It's fairly easy to install on your server with their docker compose examples.

You could use frp to proxy specific ports to your vps. https://github.com/fatedier/frp