Quetoo Is Here — QuetooMay 22, 2026<br>After 19 Years 💀 Quetoo Is Here

A love letter to the QUAKE series<br>Quetoo development officially began in January 2007. But really, Quetoo was born out of a dorm room in the late 1990s — a time when Quake wasn&rsquo;t just a game, it was an obsession. In the early 2000&rsquo;s, the open source release of the Quake engine taught a generation how to write code, how to build maps and map compilers, how renderers worked, and how to think in 3D. For many, us included, Quake was a doorway to lifelong friendships and careers in software development or game design.<br>Decades later, Quetoo is our counterpoint to the modern arena shooter. Quetoo&rsquo;s gameplay is not mathematically balanced. The arenas are not starkly lit techno-voids, and when you blow your buddies up, their giblets bounce off of jump pads and fly through teleporters. Quetoo exists to make Quake fun again .<br>Classic maps, faithfully remade<br>Quetoo includes carefully crafted remakes of legendary Quake, Quake2 and Quake3 deathmatch arenas, rebuilt with thoughtful flourishes, dramatic lighting, and painstaking detail by the community&rsquo;s top artists over many years.<br>Good looking graphics on any modern GPU<br>Real-time dynamic lighting and soft shadow mapping make every room and cramped hallway come alive. If it moves, it casts a shadow. Bump mapping with parallax occlusion, HDR, and bloom bring every surface to life. But you don&rsquo;t need a raytracing GPU to enjoy Quetoo. It will run just fine on a 10 year old rig.<br>Multiplayer modes for every occasion<br>Free-for-all, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag 🚩, Instagib, and Rocket Arena — plus bot 🤖 support, so there&rsquo;s always someone to frag. And who doesn&rsquo;t want to pop off on some AI right about now?<br>Cross platform support<br>Native builds for Linux, macOS, and Windows, compiled and available to you via GitHub Releases the moment the code lands in main. An in-game auto-updater brings you the newest curated game content automatically.<br>Run your own server<br>Dedicated server packages for Red Hat and Debian Linux — drop one on a VPS and you&rsquo;re hosting games in minutes. Included systemd scripts make server management a breeze, even running multiple ports on the same box. Set a password, or make it public. Up to you!<br>Make your own maps and mods<br>First-class TrenchBroom support makes Quetoo one of the most mapper-friendly games available. And, all of our maps, textures and assets are available on GitHub under the Creative Commons license. If you&rsquo;re a coder, the engine and game modules are fully open source under the GPL, and available on GitHub. Fork us! You won&rsquo;t do it.

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Download & Links<br>Downloads: quetoo.org/downloads<br>itch.io: wickedoldgames.itch.io/quetoo<br>Discord: discord.gg/unb9U4b<br>GitHub: github.com/jdolan/quetoo<br>YouTube: @WickedOldGames