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Q3 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
All Games–Quake Live–Quake III Arena–Quake II–QuakeWorld–NetQuake–Quake (Enhanced)–CPMA–Quake 4–Quake Wars–Bloodrun–QC: Doom Edition–Quake Champions–
Quake III Arena
All Games–Quake Live–Quake III Arena–Quake II–QuakeWorld–NetQuake–Quake (Enhanced)–CPMA–Quake 4–Quake Wars–Bloodrun–QC: Doom Edition–Quake Champions–
6,835,956
frags scoredby real players, counted between polls
76,958
hours of Quake III Arena played
68.7
players online on average
227
peak players at once
263
servers hosting real matches2+ real humans and a real frag
1,506
bots detectedon a typical poll

Players by day

Average online each day. Shaded columns are weekends; hover or click a day for its number.
50100150 avg 67 120peak · Sep 2 today, so far Aug 18152229181522 50100150 avg 67 120peak · Sep 2 today, so far Aug 18152229181522

Servers on the map

! ^-UnFreeZe.fpsclasico.de (Sep 22, 14:06) - 9,867 hoursQ3MSK FREEZE - 5,801 hours***2026 FREE - 5,745 hours! ^&FreeFUn.fpsclasico.eu (Sep 22, 14:06) - 3,819 hoursQ3RETRO.COM|CTF - 3,058 hoursRETRO|FFA - 2,924 hours! 2x RAIL FFA - 1,913 hoursQ3MSK CA(PL) - 1,891 hoursQ3MSK CTF(DE) - 1,607 hours! 1x RAIL FFA - 1,551 hours! ^$ffa.fpsclasico.eu (Sep 22, 14:06) - 1,495 hours! ALT-Retro FFA - 1,475 hours
263 servers hosted a real match this quarter (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: Mon 18:00 UTC, avg 137 players. Prime time: 15:00-22:00, busy every day.
By hour · UTC
12am6am12pm6pm11pm
By weekday
65
Mon
54
Tue
76
Wed
66
Thu
71
Fri
69
Sat
72
Sun

Records

Top row: the best Q3 2026 has seen. Bottom row: the best ever recorded, since August 2026.
Q3 2026227players online at once on Quake III Arena
Sep 2
Q3 202635in the fullest single match
! DESPERADO FFA · pro-q3dm13
Aug 14, 10:00 UTC
Q3 20269,867hours of real players on the busiest server
! ^-UnFreeZe.fpsclasico.de (Sep 22, 14:06)
Q3 2026120average players on the busiest day
Sep 2
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

603
different maps played
42
countries reached

Modes and hosting

Modes
Deathmatch48%
TDM30%
CTF10%
Duel8%
53%
80%
90%
60%
Where servers are hosted
🇩🇪 Germany42%
🇷🇺 Russia22%
🇺🇸 United States18%
🇵🇱 Poland3%
🇨🇿 Czechia3%

Top maps

Share of play-time across 603 maps played. Click a map for its page, or browse every map.
q3dm178.6%
pro-q3dm66.8%
q3dm75.1%
ztn3tourney14.3%
q3dm143.4%
q3dm82.8%
q3dm112.5%
q3dm152.5%
pro-q3dm132.4%
q3dm162.3%

Busiest servers this quarter

By total hours of real-player time. Click a server to find it in the live browser.
1 ! ^-UnFreeZe.fpsclasico.de (Sep 22, 14:06)Quake III Arena 9,867hours 22peak 1now 2 Q3MSK FREEZEQuake III Arena 5,801hours 28peak 7now 3 ***2026 FREEQuake III Arena 5,745hours 21peak 6now 4 ! ^&FreeFUn.fpsclasico.eu (Sep 22, 14:06)Quake III Arena 3,819hours 22peak 2now 5 Q3RETRO.COM|CTFQuake III Arena 3,058hours 33peak 0now 6 RETRO|FFAQuake III Arena 2,924hours 20peak 1now 7 ! DM17Quake III Arena 2,303hours 9peak 3now 8 ! 2x RAIL FFAQuake III Arena 1,913hours 8peak 3now 9 Q3MSK CA(PL)Quake III Arena 1,891hours 19peak 0now 10 Q3MSK CTF(DE)Quake III Arena 1,607hours 20peak 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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