Please consider taking a look at the lounge. It's a self hosted solution that you access thru the web. It's solved that problem for me since it is always running on the server. If you have a Raspberry Pi you can use that or a VPS.
The first game to ever do this to me was Black and White, which most people today have probably never even heard of. It's one of the reasons I celebrate Morrowind's introductory sequence. A few minutes of fourth wall breaking notes then "You're on your own now, good luck."
This is amazing but I wish that more work would go into making it more stable and bug-free. Quite a few times now I've had to stop playing due to crashes and bugs.
Please consider taking a look at the lounge. It's a self hosted solution that you access thru the web. It's solved that problem for me since it is always running on the server. If you have a Raspberry Pi you can use that or a VPS.