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October 2026 · so far

The State of Quake III Arena

Every number here comes from QuakeHub polling every public Quake III Arena server on Earth every 90 seconds, real players only, bots filtered out, since August 2026. This month is still being written.

MonthQuarterYear
October 2026September 2026August 2026
All Games–Quake Live–Quake III Arena–Quake II–QuakeWorld–CPMA–NetQuake–Quake 4–Bloodrun–Quake Wars–QC: Doom Edition–Quake (Enhanced)–Quake Champions–
Quake III Arena
All Games–Quake Live–Quake III Arena–Quake II–QuakeWorld–CPMA–NetQuake–Quake 4–Bloodrun–Quake Wars–QC: Doom Edition–Quake (Enhanced)–Quake Champions–
1,546,668
frags scoredby real players, counted between polls
13,632
hours of Quake III Arena played
69.2▼ 4%
players online on average
165▼ 27%
peak players at once
134
servers hosting real matches2+ real humans and a real frag
1,537
bots detectedon a typical poll

Players by day

Average online each day. Shaded columns are weekends; hover or click a day for its number.
20406080 avg 69 78peak · Oct 4 today, so far Oct 18 20406080 avg 69 78peak · Oct 4 today, so far Oct 18

Servers on the map

! ^-UnFreeZe.fpsclasico.de (Oct 09, 03:57) - 1,547 hoursQ3MSK FREEZE - 1,031 hours***2026 FREE - 955 hours! ^&FreeFUn.fpsclasico.eu (Oct 09, 04:04) - 641 hours! 2x RAIL FFA - 602 hours! 1x RAIL FFA - 475 hoursQ3RETRO.COM|CTF - 435 hoursRETRO|FFA - 416 hours! ALT-Retro FFA - 374 hoursQ3MSK CA(PL) - 373 hours*A51* FFA - 362 hoursq3.pieter.com - 274 hours
134 servers hosted a real match this month (2+ real humans and a real frag) - dot size is hours of play. Watch it live on the world map.

By hour and weekday

Average players in each hour of the week, UTC. Brighter is busier; hover a cell for its number.
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Sun
12am6am12pm6pm11pm
quieterbusiernot sampled yet
Busiest slot: Sun 18:00 UTC, avg 149 players. Prime time: 15:00-23:00, busy every day.
By hour · UTC
12am6am12pm6pm11pm
By weekday
71
Mon
68
Tue
68
Wed
68
Thu
63
Fri
76
Sat
78
Sun

Records

Top row: the best October 2026 has seen. Bottom row: the best ever recorded, since August 2026.
October 2026165players online at once on Quake III Arena
Oct 8
October 202631in the fullest single match
Q3RETRO.COM|CTF · ctf1+
Oct 4, 01:00 UTC
October 20261,547hours of real players on the busiest server
! ^-UnFreeZe.fpsclasico.de (Oct 09, 03:57)
October 202678average players on the busiest day
Oct 4
all-time227players online at once on Quake III Arena
Sep 2, 12:00 UTC
all-time38in the fullest single match
Q3RETRO.COM|CTF · q3ufc28
Sep 26, 01:00 UTC

Maps and countries

400
different maps played
34
countries reached
12,958
matches played

Modes and hosting

Modes
Deathmatch53%
TDM28%
CTF9%
Duel5%
53%
90%
80%
70%
Where servers are hosted
🇩🇪 Germany44%
🇷🇺 Russia20%
🇺🇸 United States17%
🇨🇿 Czechia3%
🇵🇱 Poland3%

Top maps

Share of play-time across 400 maps played. Click a map for its page, or browse every map.
q3dm1710.3%
pro-q3dm65.4%
q3dm74.8%
ztn3tourney13.1%
q3dm142.8%
aedm172.6%
q3dm112.4%
xfort2.3%
q3dm152.3%
q3dm82.3%

Busiest servers this month

By total hours of real-player time. Click a server to find it in the live browser.
1- ! ^-UnFreeZe.fpsclasico.de (Oct 09, 03:57)Quake III Arena 1,547hours 22peak 0now 2▲1 Q3MSK FREEZEQuake III Arena 1,031hours 23peak 0now 3▼1 ***2026 FREEQuake III Arena 955hours 18peak 0now 4- ! DM17Quake III Arena 709hours 8peak 4now 5- ! ^&FreeFUn.fpsclasico.eu (Oct 09, 04:04)Quake III Arena 641hours 22peak 1now 6- ! 2x RAIL FFAQuake III Arena 602hours 7peak 1now 7▲2 ! 1x RAIL FFAQuake III Arena 475hours 6peak 3now 8- Q3RETRO.COM|CTFQuake III Arena 435hours 31peak 12now 9▼2 RETRO|FFAQuake III Arena 416hours 19peak 1now 10▲2 ! ALT-Retro FFAQuake III Arena 374hours 8peak 3now

Duels

The Duel ZoneBusiest duel servers, top duel maps, the best time to duel, and the tournament calendar for Quake III Arena.→

Twitch

TwitchPeak streams and viewers, the top streamers, and who streamed the most days for Quake III Arena.→

Play Quake III Arena right now

Everything above is real people on real servers - see who's on right now.
How to Play Quake III Arena
  1. Get the game data: Quake III Arena on Steam or GOG, or the original CD.
  2. Install a free modern engine, either ioquake3 or the faster Quake3e, and point it at your baseq3 files. Stock Quake III asks master.quake3arena.com, which lists around 945 servers, so your Steam copy already finds plenty of games. The ports are worth it for being actively maintained, widescreen, and free of the old frame-rate ceiling - and they also query directory.ioquake3.org (about 890 more, heavily overlapping) so you see the union of both.
  3. Staying on the stock game? Open the console with ~ and enter sv_master1 "directory.ioquake3.org", then refresh the Internet list.
  4. Playing CPMA / Promode? That scene uses its own engine, CNQ3.

Joining a server Copy the connect string, open the console with ~, and type /connect ip:port.

ioquake3 ↗Quake3e ↗CNQ3 (CPMA) ↗Quake III on Steam ↗Quake III on GOG ↗

Want this data raw? View October 2026 as JSON · API docs

Real players only - bots filtered on every poll. Recording since August 2026.
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