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Q3 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
Q4 2026Q3 2026
All Games–Quake Live–Quake III Arena–Quake II–QuakeWorld–CPMA–NetQuake–Quake (Enhanced)–Quake 4–Bloodrun–Quake Wars–QC: Doom Edition–Quake Champions–
Quake III Arena
All Games–Quake Live–Quake III Arena–Quake II–QuakeWorld–CPMA–NetQuake–Quake (Enhanced)–Quake 4–Bloodrun–Quake Wars–QC: Doom Edition–Quake Champions–
8,685,409
frags scoredby real players, counted between polls
91,942
hours of Quake III Arena played
69.6
players online on average
227
peak players at once
289
servers hosting real matches2+ real humans and a real frag
1,515
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 68 120peak · Sep 2 Aug 1815222918152229 50100150 avg 68 120peak · Sep 2 Aug 1815222918152229

Servers on the map

! ^-UnFreeZe.fpsclasico.de (Oct 01, 01:59) - 11,518 hoursQ3MSK FREEZE - 6,902 hours***2026 FREE - 6,765 hours! ^&FreeFUn.fpsclasico.eu (Oct 01, 01:59) - 4,506 hoursQ3RETRO.COM|CTF - 3,517 hoursRETRO|FFA - 3,367 hours! 2x RAIL FFA - 2,513 hoursQ3MSK CA(PL) - 2,323 hours! 1x RAIL FFA - 2,043 hours! ALT-Retro FFA - 1,846 hoursQ3MSK CTF(DE) - 1,843 hours! ^$ffa.fpsclasico.eu (Oct 01, 01:59) - 1,758 hours
289 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: Sun 18:00 UTC, avg 140 players. Prime time: 14:00-22:00, busy every day.
By hour · UTC
12am6am12pm6pm11pm
By weekday
66
Mon
59
Tue
74
Wed
66
Thu
71
Fri
71
Sat
73
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 202638in the fullest single match
Q3RETRO.COM|CTF · q3ufc28
Sep 26, 01:00 UTC
Q3 202611,518hours of real players on the busiest server
! ^-UnFreeZe.fpsclasico.de (Oct 01, 01:59)
Q3 2026120average players on the busiest day
Sep 2
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

603
different maps played
42
countries reached

Modes and hosting

Modes
Deathmatch49%
TDM30%
CTF10%
Duel8%
53%
81%
90%
60%
Where servers are hosted
🇩🇪 Germany43%
🇷🇺 Russia22%
🇺🇸 United States17%
🇵🇱 Poland3%
🇨🇿 Czechia3%

Top maps

Share of play-time across 603 maps played. Click a map for its page, or browse every map.
q3dm178.9%
pro-q3dm66.6%
q3dm75%
ztn3tourney14.1%
q3dm143.3%
q3dm82.7%
q3dm112.5%
q3dm152.5%
pro-q3dm132.3%
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 (Oct 01, 01:59)Quake III Arena 11,518hours 22peak 10now 2 Q3MSK FREEZEQuake III Arena 6,902hours 28peak 13now 3 ***2026 FREEQuake III Arena 6,765hours 23peak 8now 4 ! ^&FreeFUn.fpsclasico.eu (Oct 01, 01:59)Quake III Arena 4,506hours 22peak 12now 5 Q3RETRO.COM|CTFQuake III Arena 3,517hours 38peak 0now 6 RETRO|FFAQuake III Arena 3,367hours 20peak 3now 7 ! DM17Quake III Arena 3,034hours 9peak 2now 8 ! 2x RAIL FFAQuake III Arena 2,513hours 8peak 3now 9 Q3MSK CA(PL)Quake III Arena 2,323hours 19peak 7now 10 ! 1x RAIL FFAQuake III Arena 2,043hours 9peak 2now

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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