Buy it if you like
- Multiplayer: 54 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 43 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Combat: 29 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
- Servers and matchmaking: 6 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 4k player reviews · updated
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Why players love itThings to know
67% of themes are praise25% are divided8% are complaints
Multiplayer
Players who bring up Multiplayer mostly praise it.
54 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
I was a pretty smart kid, so I knew it was going to have a badass multiplayer.
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
43 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
This pickup system, common in the Quake era, makes matches more about map control than anything else and can be a welcome change from modern loadouts and class systems.
Combat
Players who bring up Combat mostly praise it.
29 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
it can act as a sniper rifle for fans of ranged combat.
Performance
Players who bring up Performance mostly praise it.
23 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
It's really hard to overstate how profound Q3A was for the time it was released, it took an absolute beast of a PC to run at good FPS - back then almost no one was sitting on 200fps and almost no one was above 75hz or 100hz on a CRT.
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
23 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Barring any graphical weirdness (which for me was remedied with disabling the Steam overlay) Quake III remains a very clean and polished experience, from the sharp if simple graphics to the tinny, growling announcer.
Difficulty
Players who bring up Difficulty mostly praise it.
15 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
I'm saying that despite being rather bad at this game though, but then again bots have really great difficulty options to suit anyone, even those not dipping toes in FPS games before.
+2 more players loved
Theme by theme
Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.
Players love
Multiplayer54 reviews
Gameplay43 reviews
Combat29 reviews
Performance23 reviews
Graphics23 reviews
Difficulty15 reviews
Audio7 reviews
Co-op7 reviews
Divided opinion
Story93% still recommend
Crashes100% still recommend
Monetization100% still recommend
Players complain
Servers and matchmaking100% still recommend
What you get
Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.
Play modes
- LAN PvP
- Multi-player
- Online PvP
- PvP
- Single-player
Controller
Steam lists no controller support.
Store features
- Family Sharing
- Steam Cloud
Platforms
- Windows
Valve device support
Steam DeckUnsupported
SteamOSUnsupported
Steam MachineUnsupported
Should I buy it now?
Based on Steam price history.
Lowest ever recorded
$5.99$14.99−60%
That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
7 points recordedtoday · $5.99
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