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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–CPMA–NetQuake–Bloodrun–Quake 4–Quake (Enhanced)–Quake Wars–QC: Doom Edition–Quake Champions–
Quake III Arena
All Games–Quake Live–Quake III Arena–Quake II–QuakeWorld–CPMA–NetQuake–Bloodrun–Quake 4–Quake (Enhanced)–Quake Wars–QC: Doom Edition–Quake Champions–
16,438,618
frags scoredby real players, counted between polls
158,922
hours of Quake III Arena played
72.4
players online on average
227
peak players at once
375
servers hosting real matches2+ real humans and a real frag
1,498
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 72 120peak · Sep 2 today, so far Aug 18152229181522291815222916 50100150 avg 72 120peak · Sep 2 today, so far Aug 18152229181522291815222916

Servers on the map

! ^-UnFreeZe.fpsclasico.de (Nov 06, 18:44) - 17,618 hoursQ3MSK FREEZE - 11,781 hours***2026 FREE - 10,858 hours! ^&FreeFUn.fpsclasico.eu (Nov 06, 18:44) - 8,301 hoursq3.pieter.com - 7,385 hoursQ3RETRO.COM|CTF - 5,275 hoursRETRO|FFA - 5,183 hours! 2x RAIL FFA - 5,163 hours*A51* FFA - 4,402 hours! 1x RAIL FFA - 4,233 hoursQ3MSK CA(PL) - 3,861 hours! ALT-Retro FFA - 3,227 hours
375 servers hosted a real match this year (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 141 players. Prime time: 14:00-23:00, busy every day.
By hour · UTC
12am6am12pm6pm11pm
By weekday
69
Mon
64
Tue
74
Wed
69
Thu
73
Fri
75
Sat
77
Sun

Records

Top row: the best 2026 has seen. Bottom row: the best ever recorded, since August 2026.
2026227players online at once on Quake III Arena
Sep 2
202647in the fullest single match
q3.pieter.com · q3dm7
Oct 9, 13:00 UTC
202617,618hours of real players on the busiest server
! ^-UnFreeZe.fpsclasico.de (Nov 06, 18:44)
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

925
different maps played
44
countries reached

Modes and hosting

Modes
Deathmatch53%
TDM28%
CTF9%
Duel6%
53%
80%
90%
70%
Where servers are hosted
🇩🇪 Germany42%
🇷🇺 Russia20%
🇺🇸 United States17%
🇫🇮 Finland5%
🇵🇱 Poland3%

Top maps

Share of play-time across 925 maps played. Click a map for its page, or browse every map.
q3dm1710.1%
pro-q3dm65.9%
q3dm75.3%
ztn3tourney13.4%
q3dm143%
q3dm82.5%
13vast2.5%
q3dm112.3%
q3dm152.2%
q3dm162.1%

Busiest servers this year

By total hours of real-player time. Click a server to find it in the live browser.
1 ! ^-UnFreeZe.fpsclasico.de (Nov 06, 18:44)Quake III Arena 17,618hours 22peak 8now 2 Q3MSK FREEZEQuake III Arena 11,781hours 29peak 13now 3 ***2026 FREEQuake III Arena 10,858hours 23peak 8now 4 ! ^&FreeFUn.fpsclasico.eu (Nov 06, 18:44)Quake III Arena 8,301hours 22peak 13now 5 q3.pieter.comQuake III Arena 7,385hours 47peak 14now 6 ! DM17Quake III Arena 6,095hours 9peak 2now 7 Q3RETRO.COM|CTFQuake III Arena 5,275hours 38peak 0now 8 RETRO|FFAQuake III Arena 5,183hours 20peak 2now 9 ! 2x RAIL FFAQuake III Arena 5,163hours 8peak 3now 10 *A51* FFAQuake III Arena 4,402hours 19peak 5now

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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