Quake similar games & best alternatives

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Quake

Game Boy Advance • 2007

Should you play it?

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.

What works

  • Classic fast-paced fps gameplay
  • Strong modding and community support
  • Includes expansions and new campaigns
  • Immersive dark fantasy atmosphere
  • Modern remaster with quality of life improvements

Things to keep in mind

  • Multiplayer community is smaller and can be challenging for new players
  • Some boss fights considered weak
  • Original soundtrack missing in base steam version (fixable with mods)
  • Steep difficulty curve on higher levels
  • Requires setup or source ports for best experience

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • AQtion

  • Kingpin — Life of Crime

  • Serious Sam Classics: Revolution

  • Rune Classic

  • STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™

  • SURV1V3

Less social

Games that feels like Quake but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • DOOM 64

  • POSTAL: Brain Damaged

  • Project Warlock II

  • DUSK

  • Immortal Redneck

  • Red Faction

Less dominating

Games that feels like Quake but with less domination over others

  • Blood™ Fresh Supply

  • Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter

  • PERISH

  • Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter

  • Banzai Escape 2: Subterranean

  • Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Quake: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation.

Last update: 03/08/2026