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November 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
November 2026October 2026September 2026August 2026
All Games–Quake Live–Quake III Arena–Quake II–QuakeWorld–CPMA–NetQuake–Bloodrun–Quake 4–Quake Wars–QC: Doom Edition–Quake (Enhanced)–Quake Champions–
Quake III Arena
All Games–Quake Live–Quake III Arena–Quake II–QuakeWorld–CPMA–NetQuake–Bloodrun–Quake 4–Quake Wars–QC: Doom Edition–Quake (Enhanced)–Quake Champions–
1,768,569
frags scoredby real players, counted between polls
15,319
hours of Quake III Arena played
74.8▼ 4%
players online on average
184▼ 2%
peak players at once
112
servers hosting real matches2+ real humans and a real frag
1,043
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 75 83peak · Nov 1 today, so far Nov 18 20406080100 avg 75 83peak · Nov 1 today, so far Nov 18

Servers on the map

! ^&FreeFUn.fpsclasico.eu (Nov 09, 17:34) - 1,722 hoursQ3MSK FREEZE - 1,280 hoursq3.pieter.com - 1,230 hours***2026 FREE - 941 hours*A51* FFA - 922 hours! 2x RAIL FFA - 586 hours! 1x RAIL FFA - 571 hours! ^-UnFreeZe.fpsclasico.de (Nov 09, 17:34) - 524 hoursQ3RETRO.COM|CTF - 418 hoursQ3MSK CA(PL) - 390 hoursRETRO|FFA - 369 hours! ALT-Retro FFA - 304 hours
112 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: Fri 20:00 UTC, avg 152 players. Prime time: 14:00-23:00, busy every day.
By hour · UTC
12am6am12pm6pm11pm
By weekday
64
Mon
75
Tue
77
Wed
74
Thu
79
Fri
79
Sat
81
Sun

Records

Top row: the best November 2026 has seen. Bottom row: the best ever recorded, since August 2026.
November 2026184players online at once on Quake III Arena
Nov 1
November 202643in the fullest single match
q3.pieter.com · 13vast
Nov 2, 02:00 UTC
November 20261,722hours of real players on the busiest server
! ^&FreeFUn.fpsclasico.eu (Nov 09, 17:34)
November 202683average players on the busiest day
Nov 1
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
28
countries reached
13,953
matches played

Modes and hosting

Modes
Deathmatch55%
TDM26%
CTF12%
Duel4%
53%
90%
80%
60%
Where servers are hosted
🇩🇪 Germany38%
🇷🇺 Russia23%
🇺🇸 United States17%
🇫🇮 Finland8%
🇨🇿 Czechia3%

Top maps

Share of play-time across 400 maps played. Click a map for its page, or browse every map.
q3dm1711.1%
13vast7.3%
q3dm74.7%
pro-q3dm64.6%
aedm172.7%
q3dm17++2.7%
ztn3tourney12.7%
q3dm17+2.6%
q3dm142.5%
q3dm82.4%

Busiest servers this month

By total hours of real-player time. Click a server to find it in the live browser.
1▲4 ! ^&FreeFUn.fpsclasico.eu (Nov 09, 17:34)Quake III Arena 1,722hours 22peak 13now 2▲1 Q3MSK FREEZEQuake III Arena 1,280hours 25peak 14now 3▼2 q3.pieter.comQuake III Arena 1,230hours 43peak 5now 4- ***2026 FREEQuake III Arena 941hours 19peak 7now 5▲2 *A51* FFAQuake III Arena 922hours 16peak 3now 6- ! DM17Quake III Arena 688hours 8peak 2now 7NEW DosZone reserve | 13vastQuake III Arena 649hours 12peak 12now 8- ! 2x RAIL FFAQuake III Arena 586hours 6peak 1now 9- ! 1x RAIL FFAQuake III Arena 571hours 6peak 4now 10▼8 ! ^-UnFreeZe.fpsclasico.de (Nov 09, 17:34)Quake III Arena 524hours 22peak 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 ↗

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