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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–QuakeWorld–Quake II–CPMA–Bloodrun–NetQuake–Quake 4–Quake Wars–QC: Doom Edition–Quake (Enhanced)–Quake Champions–
Quake III Arena
All Games–Quake Live–Quake III Arena–QuakeWorld–Quake II–CPMA–Bloodrun–NetQuake–Quake 4–Quake Wars–QC: Doom Edition–Quake (Enhanced)–Quake Champions–
4,913,277
frags scoredby real players, counted between polls
43,055
hours of Quake III Arena played
76.4▲ 6%
players online on average
188▼ 17%
peak players at once
209
servers hosting real matches2+ real humans and a real frag
1,545
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 76 95peak · Oct 10 today, so far Oct 18152224 20406080100 avg 76 95peak · Oct 10 today, so far Oct 18152224

Servers on the map

q3.pieter.com - 4,900 hours! ^-UnFreeZe.fpsclasico.de (Oct 24, 15:46) - 4,540 hoursQ3MSK FREEZE - 3,023 hours***2026 FREE - 2,521 hours! ^&FreeFUn.fpsclasico.eu (Oct 24, 15:46) - 1,908 hours! 2x RAIL FFA - 1,702 hours*A51* FFA - 1,316 hours! 1x RAIL FFA - 1,314 hoursRETRO|FFA - 1,251 hoursQ3RETRO.COM|CTF - 1,227 hoursQ3MSK CA(PL) - 934 hours! ALT-Retro FFA - 911 hours
209 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: Sat 19:00 UTC, avg 154 players. Prime time: 14:00-23:00, busy every day.
By hour · UTC
12am6am12pm6pm11pm
By weekday
78
Mon
73
Tue
73
Wed
72
Thu
78
Fri
79
Sat
82
Sun

Records

Top row: the best October 2026 has seen. Bottom row: the best ever recorded, since August 2026.
October 2026188players online at once on Quake III Arena
Oct 12
October 202647in the fullest single match
q3.pieter.com · q3dm7
Oct 9, 13:00 UTC
October 20264,900hours of real players on the busiest server
q3.pieter.com
October 202695average players on the busiest day
Oct 10
all-time227players online at once on Quake III Arena
Sep 2, 12:00 UTC
all-time47in the fullest single match
q3.pieter.com · q3dm7
Oct 9, 13:00 UTC

Maps and countries

400
different maps played
38
countries reached
39,583
matches played

Modes and hosting

Modes
Deathmatch57%
TDM26%
CTF9%
Duel4%
53%
90%
80%
70%
Where servers are hosted
🇩🇪 Germany41%
🇷🇺 Russia17%
🇺🇸 United States16%
🇫🇮 Finland11%
🇨🇿 Czechia3%

Top maps

Share of play-time across 400 maps played. Click a map for its page, or browse every map.
q3dm1711.6%
q3dm75.9%
13vast5.5%
pro-q3dm65.1%
q3dm142.7%
ztn3tourney12.5%
aedm172.3%
q3dm82.2%
q3dm12.2%
q3dm112.2%

Busiest servers this month

By total hours of real-player time. Click a server to find it in the live browser.
1▲36 q3.pieter.comQuake III Arena 4,900hours 47peak 8now 2▼1 ! ^-UnFreeZe.fpsclasico.de (Oct 24, 15:46)Quake III Arena 4,540hours 22peak 15now 3- Q3MSK FREEZEQuake III Arena 3,023hours 29peak 11now 4▼2 ***2026 FREEQuake III Arena 2,521hours 20peak 10now 5▼1 ! DM17Quake III Arena 1,929hours 8peak 1now 6▼1 ! ^&FreeFUn.fpsclasico.eu (Oct 24, 15:46)Quake III Arena 1,908hours 22peak 1now 7▼1 ! 2x RAIL FFAQuake III Arena 1,702hours 7peak 2now 8▲2 *A51* FFAQuake III Arena 1,316hours 14peak 0now 9- ! 1x RAIL FFAQuake III Arena 1,314hours 6peak 2now 10▼3 RETRO|FFAQuake III Arena 1,251hours 19peak 0now

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 ↗

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