August 2026 · so far
The State of Quake II
Every Quake II server, one month, one picture - drawn from the same polling that runs the live browser, with bots filtered out. This month is still being written.
5,561
frags scored by real players, counted between polls 5,386
hours of Quake II played 25.3
players online on average 48
servers hosting real matches 2+ real humans and a real frag 30
bots detected on a typical poll
The month, day by day
Average players online on Quake II, each day of August 2026.
7 14 21 28
Where Quake II lived
tastyspleen.net::dm - 1,065 hours PlayGround.ru - Deathmatch - 672 hours AQ2World (Sweden #2) Ranked Pickup - 317 hours AQ2World (Sweden #2) Clan War - 174 hours Whale's Eye WODX - RELEASE THE FILES! - 157 hours PacketFlinger.com ~ RA2 - 152 hours PacketFlinger.com ~ OpenTDM ~ Germany #3 - 143 hours PacketFlinger.com ~ OpenTDM ~ Germany - 136 hours D-Day Chile Duelos I - 111 hours D-Day Chile - Ladder www.dday.cl/ladder - 103 hours Phoenix - Best of DM & mutant w/hazards - 100 hours Strafe Harder [Q2Jump | DP2 Physics] - 81 hours
When Quake II happens
By hour of the day · UTC .
Biggest moments
72 players online at once on Quake II Aug 6
The pulse
How & where Quake II was played
Most-played modes.
Deathmatch 62%
TDM 18%
Action 13%
Arena 5%
CTF 1%
Co-op 0%
RailWarz 0%
Where servers were hosted.
πΊπΈ United States 44%
π©πͺ Germany 16%
π·πΊ Russia 13%
πΈπͺ Sweden 10%
π¨π± Chile 6%
The maps that owned the month
Share of Quake II's map play-time (400 different maps were played). Tap a map for its own page, or
browse every map .
Busiest servers this month
By total hours of real-player time. Tap a server to find it in the live browser.