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August 2026

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.

MonthQuarterYear
September 2026August 2026
All Games–Quake Live–Quake III Arena–Quake II–QuakeWorld–NetQuake–Quake (Enhanced)–CPMA–Quake 4–Quake Wars–QC: Doom Edition–Bloodrun–Quake Champions–
Quake III Arena
All Games–Quake Live–Quake III Arena–Quake II–QuakeWorld–NetQuake–Quake (Enhanced)–CPMA–Quake 4–Quake Wars–QC: Doom Edition–Bloodrun–Quake Champions–
3,096,004
frags scoredby real players, counted between polls
43,862
hours of Quake III Arena played
67.3
players online on average
201
peak players at once
194
servers hosting real matches2+ real humans and a real frag
1,490
bots detectedon a typical poll

Players by day

Average online each day. Shaded columns are weekends; hover or click a day for its number.
20406080100 avg 67 91peak · Aug 26 Aug 1815222931 20406080100 avg 67 91peak · Aug 26 Aug 1815222931

Servers on the map

! ^-UnFreeZe.fpsclasico.de (Aug 31, 16:32) - 5,845 hoursQ3MSK FREEZE - 3,506 hours***2026 FREE - 3,315 hours! ^&FreeFUn.fpsclasico.eu (Aug 31, 16:32) - 2,165 hoursQ3RETRO.COM|CTF - 1,891 hoursRETRO|FFA - 1,669 hours*A51* FFA - 1,251 hoursQ3MSK CA(PL) - 1,017 hoursQ3MSK CTF(DE) - 885 hours! ^$ffa.fpsclasico.eu (Aug 31, 16:32) - 848 hours! DESPERADO FFA - 832 hours*A51* FFA - 822 hours
194 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: Tue 19:00 UTC, avg 142 players. Prime time: 14:00-22:00, busy every day. 152 of 168 hour-slots sampled so far - filling in as the week repeats.
By hour · UTC
12am6am12pm6pm11pm
By weekday
62
Mon
64
Tue
71
Wed
66
Thu
70
Fri
67
Sat
70
Sun

Records

Top row: the best August 2026 has seen. Bottom row: the best ever recorded, since August 2026.
August 2026201players online at once on Quake III Arena
Aug 2
August 202635in the fullest single match
! DESPERADO FFA · pro-q3dm13
Aug 14, 10:00 UTC
August 20265,845hours of real players on the busiest server
! ^-UnFreeZe.fpsclasico.de (Aug 31, 16:32)
August 202691average players on the busiest day
Aug 26
all-time227players online at once on Quake III Arena
Sep 2, 12:00 UTC
all-time35in the fullest single match
! DESPERADO FFA · pro-q3dm13
Aug 14, 10:00 UTC

Maps and countries

400
different maps played
39
countries reached

Modes and hosting

Modes
Deathmatch45%
TDM31%
Duel10%
CTF10%
54%
80%
90%
60%
Where servers are hosted
🇩🇪 Germany39%
🇷🇺 Russia24%
🇺🇸 United States19%
🇵🇱 Poland3%
🇨🇿 Czechia3%

Top maps

Share of play-time across 400 maps played. Click a map for its page, or browse every map.
q3dm178.1%
pro-q3dm67.5%
q3dm75.1%
ztn3tourney15.1%
q3dm143.4%
q3dm82.9%
pro-q3dm132.7%
q3dm152.5%
q3dm112.5%
q3dm162.4%

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 (Aug 31, 16:32)Quake III Arena 5,845hours 22peak 11now 2 Q3MSK FREEZEQuake III Arena 3,506hours 28peak 8now 3 ***2026 FREEQuake III Arena 3,315hours 21peak 5now 4 ! ^&FreeFUn.fpsclasico.eu (Aug 31, 16:32)Quake III Arena 2,165hours 21peak 6now 5 Q3RETRO.COM|CTFQuake III Arena 1,891hours 33peak 0now 6 RETRO|FFAQuake III Arena 1,669hours 16peak 2now
7 *A51* FFAQuake III Arena · offline 1,251hours 14peak -now
8 Q3MSK CA(PL)Quake III Arena 1,017hours 14peak 1now 9 Q3MSK CTF(DE)Quake III Arena 885hours 19peak 0now 10 ! ^$ffa.fpsclasico.eu (Aug 31, 16:32)Quake III Arena 848hours 13peak 1now

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 August 2026 as JSON · API docs

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