Games like Quake III Arena
If Quake III Arena is your kind of game, the closest matches are Unreal Tournament 3, Quake Champions and Teamkill — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its every frag feels earned, movement mastery decides matches and competitive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Quake III Arena is a classic arena first-person shooter developed by id Software, released in 2007 at a price of 14.99 USD. Players navigate arenas using advanced movement techniques like circle-jumping, rocket-jumping, and strafe-jumping, while mastering weapon-sync-combos and tactical positioning for competitive combat. Reviewers highlight that every frag feels earned and that movement mastery decides matches, with weapon combos feeling uniquely satisfying. Players describe the experience as pure unbridled mayhem. The 96% positive review score from 2021 Steam reviews underscores enduring appeal since its 2007 launch, with online cooperative modes adding to the replayability. The session shape supports short bursts of play, though the content library is massive in scope, and the difficulty is hard.
About Quake III Arena: The greatest warriors of all time and space have been summoned to battle for the amusement of an ancient alien race. Wield a variety of guns and power-ups as you fight for glory against ruthless combatants in this fast-paced single-player and multiplayer FPS.
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Unreal Tournament 3
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Quake III Arena.
Top pick for Quake III Arena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Now includes the free Titan Pack expansion! The Titan Pack gives players a substantial amount of enhanced features and new content, including many original environments, new gametypes, the namesake Titan mutator, powerful deployables and weapons, new characters, and the Stealthbender.
Quake Champions
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Quake III Arena.
Second-strongest match for Quake III Arena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Step into the Arena. Compete against players from around the world in this fast-paced shooter that combines the dark mythos of the original Quake with the skill-based competition of Quake III Arena. Become a Champion.
Teamkill
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Quake III Arena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Teamkill is a fast and chaotic team-based multiplayer shooter where the teams are always changing and every shot counts.
Quake
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Quake III Arena.
Ranked #4 for Quake III Arena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
Deathmatch Classic
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Quake III Arena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Enjoy fast-paced multiplayer gaming with Deathmatch Classic (a.k.a. DMC). Valve's tribute to the work of id software, DMC invites players to grab their rocket launchers and put their reflexes to the test in a collection of futuristic settings.
Quake II
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Quake III Arena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
You are humanity’s last hope to stop the Strogg, a hostile alien race waging war against Earth. Play this military sci-fi FPS, now upgraded for modern platforms with improved visuals, new campaign content, online multiplayer/co-op, and more.
Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Quake III Arena.
Ranked #7 for Quake III Arena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Unreal Tournament is the original King of the Hill in the frag-or-be-fragged multiplayer gaming world. As the undisputed 1999 Game of the Year, Unreal Tournament grabbed the first person shooter genre by the soiled seat of its pants and knocked it around the room with its never-before-seen graphics, brutal edge-of-your-seat gameplay and...
TOXIKK™
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Quake III Arena fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
FRAG LIKE IT'S 1999! TOXIKK plays as if today's military shooters never existed: Designed as a spiritual successor to the FPS giants of the late 90s and early 2ks, TOXIKK carefully evolves their mechanics with modern technology and fresh ideas elaborated with Arena-FPS enthusiasts.
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Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Quake III Arena.
Reviewers of Quake III Arena cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Unreal Tournament is the original King of the Hill in the frag-or-be-fragged multiplayer gaming world. As the undisputed 1999 Game of the Year, Unreal Tournament grabbed the first person shooter genre by the soiled seat of its pants and knocked it around the room with its never-before-seen graphics, brutal edge-of-your-seat gameplay and...
Quake Live
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Quake III Arena.
Reviewers of Quake III Arena cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Experience the most exciting and fast-paced FPS gameplay while competing with players from around the world in over 100 arenas, a dozen game modes, and with persistent career stats tracking, in this online features-focused successor to Quake III Arena.
Quake II
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Quake III Arena cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
You are humanity’s last hope to stop the Strogg, a hostile alien race waging war against Earth. Play this military sci-fi FPS, now upgraded for modern platforms with improved visuals, new campaign content, online multiplayer/co-op, and more.
DOOM
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Quake III Arena.
Reviewers of Quake III Arena cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
Unreal Tournament 3
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Quake III Arena.
Reviewers of Quake III Arena cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Now includes the free Titan Pack expansion! The Titan Pack gives players a substantial amount of enhanced features and new content, including many original environments, new gametypes, the namesake Titan mutator, powerful deployables and weapons, new characters, and the Stealthbender.
Call of Duty®: Warzone™
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Quake III Arena cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Welcome to Call of Duty®: Warzone™, the massive free-to-play combat arena. Experience thrilling modes & new gameplay features across Endgame (for a limited time), Battle Royale, Black Ops Royale, and Resurgence.
Serious Sam 3: BFE
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Quake III Arena.
Reviewers of Quake III Arena cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel to the original indie fast action FPS and Game of the Year sensation - Serious Sam: The First Encounter!
Painkiller
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Shares an epic mood with Quake III Arena.
Reviewers of Quake III Arena cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
The classic Painkiller series is back! Battle through Purgatory in fast-paced co-op action, wielding infernal weapons against relentless demonic hordes. Condemned for your sins, the Voice of the Creator offers you a chance at redemption. Will you seize it or be lost to darkness?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Quake III Arena at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under Quake III Arena on Steam right now. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Quake III Arena on Steam right now. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Quake III Arena on Steam right now. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Quake III Arena on Steam right now. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Quake III Arena on Steam right now. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Quake III Arena on Steam right now. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Quake III Arena on Steam right now. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Quake III Arena on Steam right now. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Other recommendable Steam games by id Software, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
DOOM Eternal
WHY THIS
Another title from id Software, the studio behind Quake III Arena. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Hell’s armies have invaded Earth. Become the Slayer in an epic single-player campaign to conquer demons across dimensions and stop the final destruction of humanity. The only thing they fear... is you.
DOOM
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Quake III Arena.
Another title from id Software, the studio behind Quake III Arena. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
DOOM: The Dark Ages
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Quake III Arena.
Another title from id Software, the studio behind Quake III Arena. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
DOOM: The Dark Ages is the prequel to the critically acclaimed DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal that tells an epic cinematic story worthy of the DOOM Slayer’s legend. Players will step into the blood-stained boots of the DOOM Slayer, in this never-before-seen dark and sinister medieval war against Hell.
DOOM + DOOM II
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Quake III Arena.
Another title from id Software, the studio behind Quake III Arena. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Developed by id Software, and originally released in 1993 and 1994, the definitive, newly enhanced versions of DOOM + DOOM II are available as a combined product.
RAGE 2
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Quake III Arena.
Another title from id Software, the studio behind Quake III Arena. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
RAGE 2 brings together two studio powerhouses – Avalanche Studios, masters of open world insanity, and id Software, creators of the first-person shooter – to deliver a carnival of carnage where you can go anywhere, shoot anything, and explode everything.
Quake
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Quake III Arena.
Another title from id Software, the studio behind Quake III Arena. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
RAGE
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Quake III Arena.
Another title from id Software, the studio behind Quake III Arena. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
Powered by id’s revolutionary id Tech® 5 technology, RAGE is an intense first-person shooter with breakneck vehicle combat, an expansive world to explore, and jaw-dropping graphics!
DOOM 3
WHY THIS
Another title from id Software, the studio behind Quake III Arena. Shares Action with Quake III Arena.
A demonic invasion has overwhelmed the Union Aerospace Corporation's Mars research facility. As one of only a few survivors, you must fight your way to hell and back against a horde of demons in this award-winning horror/action FPS and reimagining of the original DOOM.
Frequently asked about Quake III Arena
- Does Quake III Arena work on Steam Deck?
- Quake III Arena is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Quake III Arena cost?
- Quake III Arena is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Quake III Arena have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Quake III Arena supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, LAN PvP).
- What games are most similar to Quake III Arena?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Quake III Arena are Unreal Tournament 3, Quake Champions, Teamkill.
- Who developed Quake III Arena?
- Quake III Arena was developed by id Software.
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