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Q4 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
Q4 2026Q3 2026
All Games–Quake Live–Quake III Arena–Quake II–QuakeWorld–CPMA–Bloodrun–NetQuake–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–Bloodrun–NetQuake–Quake 4–Quake Wars–QC: Doom Edition–Quake (Enhanced)–Quake Champions–
7,752,737
frags scoredby real players, counted between polls
66,977
hours of Quake III Arena played
76.9
players online on average
188
peak players at once
252
servers hosting real matches2+ real humans and a real frag
1,471
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 77 95peak · Oct 10 today, so far Oct 1815222916 20406080100 avg 77 95peak · Oct 10 today, so far Oct 1815222916

Servers on the map

q3.pieter.com - 6,828 hours! ^-UnFreeZe.fpsclasico.de (Nov 06, 18:42) - 6,099 hoursQ3MSK FREEZE - 4,879 hours***2026 FREE - 4,092 hours! ^&FreeFUn.fpsclasico.eu (Nov 06, 18:42) - 3,795 hours*A51* FFA - 2,850 hours! 2x RAIL FFA - 2,650 hours! 1x RAIL FFA - 2,189 hoursRETRO|FFA - 1,816 hoursQ3RETRO.COM|CTF - 1,757 hoursQ3MSK CA(PL) - 1,538 hours! ALT-Retro FFA - 1,381 hours
252 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: Sat 19:00 UTC, avg 149 players. Prime time: 14:00-23:00, busy every day.
By hour · UTC
12am6am12pm6pm11pm
By weekday
76
Mon
75
Tue
75
Wed
73
Thu
75
Fri
84
Sat
83
Sun

Records

Top row: the best Q4 2026 has seen. Bottom row: the best ever recorded, since August 2026.
Q4 2026188players online at once on Quake III Arena
Oct 12
Q4 202647in the fullest single match
q3.pieter.com · q3dm7
Oct 9, 13:00 UTC
Q4 20266,828hours of real players on the busiest server
q3.pieter.com
Q4 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

583
different maps played
39
countries reached
62,629
matches played

Modes and hosting

Modes
Deathmatch57%
TDM26%
CTF9%
Duel4%
53%
90%
80%
70%
Where servers are hosted
🇩🇪 Germany40%
🇷🇺 Russia18%
🇺🇸 United States16%
🇫🇮 Finland10%
🇨🇿 Czechia3%

Top maps

Share of play-time across 583 maps played. Click a map for its page, or browse every map.
q3dm1711.8%
q3dm75.5%
13vast5.1%
pro-q3dm65.1%
q3dm142.6%
aedm172.5%
ztn3tourney12.4%
q3dm82.3%
q3dm112.1%
q3dm12%

Busiest servers this quarter

By total hours of real-player time. Click a server to find it in the live browser.
1 q3.pieter.comQuake III Arena 6,828hours 47peak 12now 2 ! ^-UnFreeZe.fpsclasico.de (Nov 06, 18:42)Quake III Arena 6,099hours 22peak 7now 3 Q3MSK FREEZEQuake III Arena 4,879hours 29peak 13now 4 ***2026 FREEQuake III Arena 4,092hours 20peak 8now 5 ! ^&FreeFUn.fpsclasico.eu (Nov 06, 18:42)Quake III Arena 3,795hours 22peak 15now 6 ! DM17Quake III Arena 3,061hours 9peak 2now 7 *A51* FFAQuake III Arena 2,850hours 19peak 4now 8 ! 2x RAIL FFAQuake III Arena 2,650hours 7peak 3now 9 ! 1x RAIL FFAQuake III Arena 2,189hours 6peak 3now 10 RETRO|FFAQuake III Arena 1,816hours 19peak 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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