Games like Quake Champions
If Quake Champions is your kind of game, the closest matches are Quake Live, Quake III Arena and BLITZ ARENA — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its tactical positioning matters, writing quality is exceptional 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 Champions is a free-to-play arena shooter developed by id Software that entered early access in 2022. The game combines the dark mythology of the original Quake with competitive multiplayer combat, featuring a roster of champions each equipped with unique active abilities. Players compete in fast-paced matches across procedurally generated arenas where class-based characters require strategic selection alongside reflexive aim. Reviewers and players describe the experience as competitive and intense, with tactical positioning mattering significantly in each encounter. The game carries a hard difficulty designation and offers massive content for dedicated players. Quake Champions runs in a playable state on Steam Deck and holds a 71% positive rating from nearly 20,000 Steam reviews.
About Quake Champions: 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.
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Quake Live
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Quake Champions.
Top pick for Quake Champions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
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 III Arena
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Quake Champions.
Second-strongest match for Quake Champions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
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.
BLITZ ARENA
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Quake Champions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
FPS party game, 8 players compete in a tournament with a multitude of competitive gamemodes ! Solo, duo or team (4v4), prepare to fight in fast and tactical gamemodes. (Versus, Gungame, Battle royal, Dodegball, Runner ...)
Splitgate
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Quake Champions.
Ranked #4 for Quake Champions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Free To Play with Quake Champions.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
Unreal Tournament 3
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Quake Champions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
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.
Battlerite
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Quake Champions.
Ranked #6 for Quake Champions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Free To Play with Quake Champions.
BATTLERITE is an action-packed team arena brawler. Experience the unique combination of top-down shooter meets fast-paced fighting game and challenge friends and foes in a battle of reaction. The Arena awaits!
Quantum League
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Quake Champions.
Ranked #7 for Quake Champions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
Quantum League is a revolutionary Time-Paradox Shooter: a competitive online FPS where you are battling within a time loop, tactically teaming up with your past and future selves in mind-blowing 1v1 and 2v2 matches.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Quake Champions.
Ranked #8 for Quake Champions fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Free To Play with Quake Champions.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
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Quake
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Quake Champions.
Reviewers of Quake Champions cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
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.
Quake III Arena
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Quake Champions.
Reviewers of Quake Champions cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
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.
Quake Live
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Quake Champions.
Reviewers of Quake Champions cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
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 Champions cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
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.
QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Quake Champions cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
After defeating Shub-Niggurath, you arrive back at your home base on Earth, but it's not all blue skies and butterflies. Apparently, not all QUAKE forces have been subdued. Chaos ensues as you blast your way through the QUAKE minions and toward the infested gateway. Your only choice is to find the source of evil and shut it down.
Overwatch®
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Quake Champions.
Reviewers of Quake Champions cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Free To Play with Quake Champions.
Overwatch®, A FUTURE WORTH FIGHTING FOR! Overwatch® is an always-on and ever-evolving free-to-play, team-based action game set in an optimistic future, where every match is the ultimate 5v5 or 6v6 battlefield brawl.
DOOM
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Quake Champions.
Reviewers of Quake Champions cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
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: Game of the Year Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with Quake Champions.
Reviewers of Quake Champions cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
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...
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DOOM Eternal
WHY THIS
Another title from id Software, the studio behind Quake Champions. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
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 intense mood with Quake Champions.
Another title from id Software, the studio behind Quake Champions. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
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 intense mood with Quake Champions.
Another title from id Software, the studio behind Quake Champions. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
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 intense mood with Quake Champions.
Another title from id Software, the studio behind Quake Champions. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
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 intense mood with Quake Champions.
Another title from id Software, the studio behind Quake Champions. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
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 an intense mood with Quake Champions.
Another title from id Software, the studio behind Quake Champions. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
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
Another title from id Software, the studio behind Quake Champions. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
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 Champions. Shares Action with Quake Champions.
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 Champions
- Does Quake Champions run on Steam Deck?
- Quake Champions is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is Quake Champions free to play?
- Yes — Quake Champions is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- Does Quake Champions have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Quake Champions supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Quake Champions?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Quake Champions are Quake Live, Quake III Arena, BLITZ ARENA.
- Who developed Quake Champions?
- Quake Champions was developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks.
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