EST. 1996 · STILL FRAGGING

Quake 1 is
alive.

The game you played in 1997 never stopped. Nightly 4on4s, a live duel ladder, real skill ratings, and servers within 40ms of most of North America. Your rockets still work.

REGIONAL DISCORDS: EUROPE · AUSTRALIA · SOUTH AMERICA
FREE · NO LAUNCHER · NO STORE · 300MB AND YOU'RE IN
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servers online
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active players / 90d
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rated games
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servers tracked
LIVE FEED

Happening now

Servers with real players on them right now — bot lobbies filtered out. Updated every 5 minutes.

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RE-SPAWN PROTOCOL

Back after 20 years?
You're 10 minutes out.

01

Download nQuake

One installer: engine, maps, modern netcode. Runs on anything built this century.

NQUAKE.COM →
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Join the Discord

Where games form. Say you're returning — someone will pull you into a pickup within the hour.

DISCORD →
03

Play tonight

NA pickups run nightly, duels anytime. Your first 10 games are rough. Game 11 is when it comes back.

FIND A SERVER →
SKILL IS MEASURED HERE

The ladder is real

Every game rated by an engine calibrated on 100,000+ matches. Duels, 4on4, per-map — climb it.

FULL RANKINGS →
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4on4TOP 5 · GLOBAL
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INTEL

From the blog

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DATA LAB

Your Pickup Games Were 67/33. We Fixed That.

We scored 9,946 real QuakeWorld 4on4s: the average pickup split was a 67/33 mismatch, while a fair split existed 94.5% of the time. Meet the DeepFrag team balancer.

AUGUST 25, 2026