Quake II
Quake II
Game
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Quake 4
Developer RavenSoft, id Software
Quake 4 is a 2005 first-person shooter game developed by Raven Software and published by Activision. It is the fourth title in the Quake series, after the multiplayer Quake III Arena, and a sequel to Quake II. Raven Software collaborated with id Software, who supervised the development of the game as well as provided the id Tech 4 engine upon which it was built. The game has an increased emphasis on single-player… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
331 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 1, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
79
LovedLoved
160 positive · 42 negative
95% range 73–84%
| Source | + | − | = |
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| Steam reviews | 160 | 42 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 23 | 10 | 75 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 2 | 16 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 1 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
1,851 of 2,184 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
79% recommend · 155 yes, 41 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 196 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (3,513 of 4,011 positive).
Players praise Quake 4 as an underrated, gory FPS with great atmosphere and gunplay, but note it needs mods to look and run well. [1][2][3] Some reviewers find the game slow and generic compared to earlier Quake titles, with technical issues on modern systems. [4][5][6] Many call for a remaster to fix outdated graphics and resolution problems. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
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Used a Steam guide to edit the config file to fix the super muddy textures and game running at an improper framerate. Even after this, the framerate would occasionally unlock after pausing, breaking the game's physics. Gave up on the game because many of the effects would stop appearing after loading a save, making explosions and projectiles invisible. Even aside from these objective issues the game feels painfully …
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I’ve played Quake 1–3 for years, but somehow never touched Quake 4 until 2025. And honestly? This game is criminally underrated. Played on PC (RTX 3080 Ti, 4K upscaled, M+K) using these mods: Sikkmod Lite, Quake 4 Tweaker, Assorted Fixes, Quake 4 Hi-Def, Impacts & Injury. These mods modernize the game completely — uncapped FPS, better lighting/shaders, HD textures, fixed bugs, improved blood/decals, FOV slider, the …
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Quake 4 is a gory, industrial-grade FPS masterpiece that comfortably shares the throne with Doom 3 as a classic of mid-2000s shooter design. Swapping quiet horror for full-scale military chaos, it delivers insanely satisfying, old-school gunplay packed with brutal body horror and heavy-hitting weaponry. If you long for unadulterated, linear sci-fi violence without the modern tactical nonsense, Quake 4 still packs a …
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By far the most underrated FPS I have ever played. This is 100 percent a must play. Great story, amazing gunplay, and crazy ass moments. Buy this game NOW
- [7]
Give us Remaster please include Quake 4 Awakening DLC
Summarised from 34 of the 294 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 10, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
79% of the 196 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Quake 4. The complaint that keeps coming up: needs mods to fix graphics and performance. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Quake 4's PC version received a "Silver" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 100,000 copies in the United Kingdom. Quake 4 received generally favorable reviews regarding the PC version of the game, with game database Metacritic giving the game an aggregate review score of 81/100. Websites and magazines such as IGN and UGO praised its single-player campaign, graphics and Hollywood voice-acting, but complained that its multiplayer was too much like Quake III's. GameSpot gave Quake 4 an 8.0 and it also said: "The single-player is great fun, but the uninspired multiplayer leaves a lot to be desired". PC Magazine…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 331 · most liked firstThere was also Enemy Territory: Quake Wars which was a class-based team multiplayer game that was a prequel to Quake 2 (and by extension Quake 4) which recycled a lot of the aesthetics from Quake 4, and expanded a little on the Q2/Q4 universe's lore.
neutral · AI labelView post →bless the amateur level devs who look at a futuristic shooter that has railguns and dark matter cannons, and think, "You know what this game needs? My house." www.moddb.com/games/quake-... #quake4
positive · AI labelView post →Give us Remaster please include Quake 4 Awakening DLC
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →New video!! Quake 4 is a horror game, but what kind of horror are we talking about? Psychological? Body horror? Or something more insidious? Come join me for the live premiere as I examine @ravensoftware.com's masterpiece, Quake 4! youtu.be/Z8TUaibPVJI
neutral · AI labelView post →DISCLAIMER: I initially brushed this game off too fast and refunded it on steam. However, I felt bad afterwards for not giving it an honest try and remembered that I had the game on GoG. I've since played through most of the game on GoG and felt like writing a review here too. With that out of the way... Quake 4 feels very much like ID's answer to Half-Life. The game starts off really slow and the textures did not age nearly as well as Half-Life but once it gets going its actually a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’ve played Quake 1–3 for years, but somehow never touched Quake 4 until 2025. And honestly? This game is criminally underrated. Played on PC (RTX 3080 Ti, 4K upscaled, M+K) using these mods: Sikkmod Lite, Quake 4 Tweaker, Assorted Fixes, Quake 4 Hi-Def, Impacts & Injury. These mods modernize the game completely — uncapped FPS, better lighting/shaders, HD textures, fixed bugs, improved blood/decals, FOV slider, the whole package. 🔥 The Game Released in 2005, developed by Raven with…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finished Quake 4, great game, it feels weird at the beginning but when you become a strogg it gets the quake speed. It still a corridor shooter sadly. In the end it suffers because it doesent know if its a military shooter or a boomer shooter but still, great game. Now, i'm going to play STALKER 2
neutral · AI labelView post →Make yourself a game that looks like a pre-rendered background for a '90s horror game, as a treat. You've earned it. #quake4
neutral · AI labelView post →Schedule for the week, Gonna play Quake 4, Stationeers or maybe some coop game on Wednesday and then Friday more Stationeers
neutral · AI labelView post →Quake 4 is a gory, industrial-grade FPS masterpiece that comfortably shares the throne with Doom 3 as a classic of mid-2000s shooter design. Swapping quiet horror for full-scale military chaos, it delivers insanely satisfying, old-school gunplay packed with brutal body horror and heavy-hitting weaponry. If you long for unadulterated, linear sci-fi violence without the modern tactical nonsense, Quake 4 still packs a terrifyingly punchy punch.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game gets a lot of crap, for a lot of reasons. Many of these are quite frankly understandable at the very least. Graphically, it requires mods to look great, or config file edits to look nice. Most notably, Raven took the movement tech from the previous 3.5 Quake games and just... didn't put most of it here... Part of the reason behind this might be that IdTech4 was designed for Doom 3, and not Quake, but I digress. Quake 4's movement speed is genuinely atrocious. Luckily, you can change…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Artwork by Kevin Long, from a 1995 ad for Palladium's Robotech Roleplaying Game. Long's work was the face of Palladium games from 1986-1995, after which he began working in videogames, serving as a 2D artist for games like Heretic II, Quake 4, and art lead on 2009's Wolfenstein. #ttrpg #robotech
neutral · AI labelView post →Used a Steam guide to edit the config file to fix the super muddy textures and game running at an improper framerate. Even after this, the framerate would occasionally unlock after pausing, breaking the game's physics. Gave up on the game because many of the effects would stop appearing after loading a save, making explosions and projectiles invisible. Even aside from these objective issues the game feels painfully slow and generic compared to both the prior games in the series and its…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Camo Green theme for the spring, lightly inspired by #Quake 4's color palette and vaguely by Big Buck Hunter. Wanted a kinda Y2K edgy font for it. #godot #gamedev #indiegames
neutral · AI labelView post →HELLO AND WELCOME TO OUR GIGASTROGGOS!!!!11 Unironically the best videogame adaptation of the unironic pre-Verhoeven Starship Troopers. A very well done intermediate step between what used to be called a Doom-clone and a military shooter. Oft dismissed because people are boring and hate hybrids. Quake 4 has outstanding art direction. From claustrophobic and cable-beriddled corridors to the horrors of local Big Pharma to the static backgrounds, the industrial hellscape of Stroggos reeks…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Been playing more Quake 4 lately for inspo, and am sad I slept on the game's multiplayer. It's amazing what mappers created with a tweaked Doom 3 engine, like I feel like some might have passed on the game because of the perception it was still a grimy corridor shooter engine, but it's got range!
positive · AI labelView post →If any anonymous soul unhappy with the state of the game industry wishes to surprise me with an unreleased build of the cancelled Quake 4 expansion pack "Awakening", your files are safe on my hard drive.
neutral · AI labelView post →A Game Dev Used Retail Therapy to Navigate a Divorce, but Found a Long-Lost ‘Quake 4’ Expansion Instead #gamedevelopment #gamedev #indiedev #vig
neutral · AI labelView post →I think Quake is more rooted in eldritch aesthetics than Quake II's Strogg stuff, but I find this game good for what it is.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →By far the most underrated FPS I have ever played. This is 100 percent a must play. Great story, amazing gunplay, and crazy ass moments. Buy this game NOW
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Seems like a pretty big oversight to have the brain control chip be activated at the very end of Strogg conversion. Would've saved them a lot of future headache. Hopefully someone got fired for that blunder.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quake 4 is a sequel to Quake 2... The story of Quake 4 is good (it reminds me of DOOM 3) gameplay: PRACTICALLY the same as DOOM 3... and very good soundtrack: good rock!!! aiming is good graphics are nice character modeling is well done There's not much to criticize about Quake 4.... it's a Quake worth having... especially for DOOM and DOOM 3 fans specifically! What I'm hoping for is a new Quake with the essence of the current DOOM and the current Wolfenstein... where are you at, ID Software…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Clasic game, epic level design. I recomend going into guides and checking how to fix graphics
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Such a fun sci-fi FPS. Brought me back to a nostalgic time of 2004/2005 gaming. Fun, cool, satisfying weapons to use, great sci-fi atmosphere and visuals with some horror(body horror) elements. Sometimes straight forward FPS gaming is all you need. No bloat, no battlepasses/loot boxes etc. Just straight forward old school FPS good times. Long live Quake!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Been delaying playing it because I thought it looked like Doom 3 but it's nothing like it and I loved both, for different reasons. Great game, under-appreciated even, I feel like.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🌙 NOW LIVE Come QUAKE 4 and let's finish (this game) together~ www.twitch.tv/goodnightsnek
neutral · AI labelView post →FOSS games and especially FOSS spinoffs of games are even more important now with a growing awareness of the monstrous behaviour of game studios and publishers. I'm super into Quake 4 right now, but can I really ask people who didn't buy it on launch in 2005 to throw money at Bethesda today? I can't
positive · AI labelView post →HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY TO THE MOST IMPORTANT QUAKE GAME, QUAKE 4
neutral · AI labelView post →Quake 4 is a sequel to Quake 2, focusing more on the single-player aspect. Quake 4 should be approached as its own thing, however. While the base of Quake 2 can be seen, it's still very different. For example, a good chunk of the game is spent going around with squadmates. It's nice to feel like I'm not the only one here, but gameplay-wise their effect is rather minimal, save for the healing that medics and tech guys can do. At least on the difficulty I was in. I don't play much of FPS games,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game desperately needs a remaster. Both the PC and (obv) 360 version are very outdated. Aside from that, this is an awesome game that, much like DOOM 3, doesn't get the love it deserves. Not the best in the series by any means, but a great take for its time. Story is very well done and the different quirks this game has are really cool. The only thing I can say I kinda wish it had were secrets or hidden areas of some kind, which is a staple to the franchise and these types of games. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you like ID software and the franchise get it! BUUUUUUUT!!!! IF YOU DO, GO FIND A PREMADE CONFIG FILE (or make your own) for some reason configuring graphics in game doesn't fix them... I found it in 2 minutes searching "quake4 steam windows 10 graphics FIX" on google.... this guy had a prebuilt "quake4config.cfg" for download. I dropped it inside the "q4base" folder in the quake Root directory and BAAAM! the game looked like it was supposed to... Warning!! without that file the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wrote a Quake 4 review on Cohost that I'm looking to re-upload elsewhere, the tl;dr was essentially "Quake 4 is okay for a Quake game." There were a lot of cool ideas being played with that I feel were held back by the pressures of expected mid-2000s mechanics. I see it as a gamedev time capsule.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finished QUAKE 4 again a couple days ago and I'm pretty sure it's actually my favorite art direction for a game. I love EVERYTHING about it! The weapons look great, the marine armor might be my favorite looking sci-fi armor, and the flesh/machine monsters all look amazing! 👀
positive · AI labelView post →If you miss the old games, play the old games, those are still fun
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quake 4 is great Quake game, but it is certainly not without its flaws. Unlike prior Quake games, Quake 4 is clearly interested in delivering a narrative and having characters. It continues from the events of Quake II, but with a new protagonist. The story, though by no means the most profound, kept me interested throughout my entire playthrough. This game took me roughly 9.5 hours on Nightmare difficulty (or whatever Quake 4 calls it). There's a lot of content here, and unlike Quake II,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →> Quake 4 I forgot this game even existed. It wasn't very good tbh
negative · AI labelView post →Not the best Quake, but very nice graphically speaking. More games should've used Id Tech 4.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →has aged liek milk. no resolution for my screen type so the sensitivity is ♥♥♥♥♥♥. in some directions its high in others its super low.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quake 4 is not a good game on the 360 but not once have I felt bored or frustrated while playing it which makes it a good game
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the games that IMO took classic shooters from just 3D to totally immersive. Needs mods to look as good as I remember, but past that it runs great even on Windows 11. There is no battle pass, no social integration, just raw Strogg anhillation here folks.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game, by default, is only playable in 720p resolution. Until they update it to modern resolutions with at least 16:9 1920 1080p resolution, I cannot recommend this game. They should at least have a warning on the store page, offer refunds and remove it from the market for false advertising. And I was just informed from others that you can purchase the game from Microsoft and it'll run today's resolutions but they refuse to update the Steam version.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Weirdly good for what it is. It's a generic sci-fi military shooter from the mid 2000s, not particularly special even when it came out, but it's still a very well-executed one and worth a try if you're into stuff from the early Xbox 360 days. There's not much else to say really, it's not a competitor to Halo or HL2 or what have you, but the atmosphere is excellent with a lot of interesting body horror and it does nail the feeling of participating in an actual military operation better than…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Been playing more Quake 4 lately for inspo, and am sad I slept on the game's multiplayer. It's amazing what mappers created with a tweaked Doom 3 engine, like I feel like some might have passed on the game because of the perception it was still a grimy corridor shooter engine, but it's got range! #quake4 #doom3 #leveldesign
positive · AI labelView post →I made a ytmnd supercut of Peter Stormare's Quake 4 character Strauss saying "Kaaaane" at the player. I'd intended to do a cut of the whole game but only made it through the first several levels before I lost my mind 😅
neutral · AI labelView post →#30DayVideoGameChallenge HARD MODE Day two: an underrated game I’ve been thinking of id Tech 4 games a lot recently. Wolfenstein, Quake 4, DOOM 3… but Prey is great and talked about *so* little. It’s a super solid FPS that acts kind of like a bookend to the original golden age. #gaming
neutral · AI labelView post →I decided to make the bad idea a reality. Obviously, there's nothing to download as this is just starting. This is mostly a place for devlogs. Follow along if you'd like, or not. This thing'll take a while to make. And no, it's not official. I'm not cool enough to be employed https://adorablesergal.itch.io/moonrise #quake4 #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →The closest game I can compare it to is Doom 3. It uses similar graphics and assets, and is a high contrast and dark FPS game. The guns are fun, the vibe is edgy, and the pacing is a little slow with all the dialogue. Still fun!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game described here might actually just be Quake 4, if it had continued its late 2004 direction. 😅
neutral · AI labelView post →Pure horror on steroids! The Stroggs are really a sadestic and dangerous race you must kill and destroy! The Sequel on the (stil) amazing Quake 2 (Quake3Arena is something else) You like fps, SF and horror then this is for you! It's the same Id engine as DooM 3 but better!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Matthew Kane went through a lot... it's a shame we didn't get the Awakening expansion.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After years of owning this game, I finally beat it. And all in all? yeah it's a product of its time, but don't let that discourage you. The game has aged well in its presentation and story. The lighting still holds up today. Very well done and recommend this for anyone wanting a classic FPS experience.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finished up Quake 4, this one was pretty good!, I think I enjoyed Doom 3 just a lil bit more tho, but this game has an amazing atmosphere, and the Strogg designs still slap as usual. There was a bit of difficulty spike there at the end, but it was mainly just me being dumb lol
positive · AI labelView post →I started Quake 4 for the first time on the new machine. That game came out twenty years ago. The new machine's video card has enough "texture memory" to run 30 copies of it simultaneously.
neutral · AI labelView post →Awhile back (about 2 years ago IIRC) I picked up a used physical copy of #Quake4 for PC. I was originally thinking of playing it on my WinXP rig (hence why I opted for physical) but today I decided to set it up on the main desktop instead. #Debian's `game-data-packager` was able to auto-build a set of .debs from the original CDs and the last official patch and the game runs with no issues. #LinuxGaming
neutral · AI labelView post →Quake 4 had the misfortune to be a Pretty Okay FPS that released a year after Halo 2 did, which was a game that had an absolute stranglehold on console FPS mindshare for a million years, it also had a lot of technical issues as well
neutral · AI labelView post →this is not even me hating I think it's cool. well, okay. I think they deserve a better game, with better stewards. but I don't think they'd disagree. I pray one day we get a Quake 4 for fujoshi. that would be the best game ever made.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's been some time since I've beaten this, so it might not be the most accurate review, but having now played Quake 1 and 2, I have a better understanding of people's criticisms towards the game. This is barely a Quake/id game. It is way too scripted, easy (and I remember playing on the hardest difficulty), linear and constantly interrupting the gameplay flow for narrative reasons. If you look at BTS development interviews, you realise that the game being plot-heavy is intentional? Apparently…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We had it good back in 2000s: Doom 3, Half-Life 2, Quake 4, FEAR, Call of Juarez, Prey, Battlefield 2, Serious Sam 2 and others. The game still got it after 20 years. It's short (less than 10 hours, i think), it switches pace, doesn't give you fatigue of doing same stuff, it's atmospheric, no BS cutscenes or guiding hand tutorials. It's the game you lock in to and beat in couple of evenings like Prey. Gunplay is amost fine. The only thing i hate is machine gun. Other guns are pretty much…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Quake 4 is the only Quake I've played. First about 20 years ago. Then replayed it several times since. It's basically about 7 hours of concentrated shooter. You pretty much just press W and shoot. That's probably why I never tried to get into the Quake series in the first place - I want something more from a shooter. But if that's your thing, look no further. It's also much more fast-paced than you'd expect from an old shooter. But it doesn't have any of that useless out-of-place ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ like…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I loved quake 4 on the xbox and it really holds on up pc, brilliant arena shooter
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