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1996PCSteam Deck verified97 % positive9.99 €

id Software's landmark shooter sends you through grim, gothic Lovecraftian mazes full of monsters, with lightning-fast movement, frantic gunplay and a brooding industrial soundscape by Trent Reznor. Its multiplayer also made history.

Dread and tension
Shooting and gunplay
Competing against other players
Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

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The closest matches for Quake are Doom II: Hell on Earth, Quake II and Quake 4. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Quake special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Doom II: Hell on Earth

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1994PCSteam Deck verified95 % positivefree

Shooting and gunplay
Dread and tension
Action-packed real-time combat

The legendary shooter classic sends you and your Super Shotgun through maze-like levels packed with demons that have overrun Earth. Blistering, relentless combat, hidden secrets and nasty new foes like the Arch-vile keep it a genre benchmark to this day.

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Quake II

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A landmark sci-fi shooter: a lone marine fights through the industrial hellscape of Stroggos against a cybernetic alien army. It delivers fast gunplay, interconnected hub levels, a pounding metal soundtrack, and influential deathmatch multiplayer.

Quake 4

Dark, serious atmosphere

A linear sci-fi shooter on the Doom 3 engine where marine Matthew Kane takes the fight to the Strogg homeworld, featuring the infamous stroggification twist. Squad missions, vehicle sections and fast arena multiplayer round it out.

Blood: Fresh Supply

Dread and tension

A brutal retro first-person shooter from 1997 in updated form: as undead gunslinger Caleb you blast through hordes of cultists with shotguns, dynamite and occult weapons. Fast, gory level design full of secrets and dark humor.

Dusk

Dread and tension

Dusk is a fast, 90s-style boomer shooter with eerie atmosphere and maze-like levels full of secrets. It focuses on fluid movement and punchy weapons against hordes of cultists and worse horrors.

Quake III Arena

Competing against other players

Quake III Arena is a pure arena shooter where blistering movement like strafe-jumping, precise aim and controlling item spawns decide every match. There's no campaign, just relentless deathmatches and duels against bots or real players.

Descent II

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A classic six-degrees-of-freedom shooter where you pilot a ship in every direction through twisting alien mines full of hostile robots. Key hunting, new weapons and disorienting 3D navigation make for intense action.

Unreal

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A 1998 classic first-person shooter in which you crash-land on an alien world and explore striking landscapes and ancient architecture while fighting the brutal invaders who enslaved a peaceful race. It stresses atmosphere and discovery alongside the gunplay.

Blood

Dread and tension

A brutal 1997 retro first-person shooter where you play vengeful cultist Caleb, mowing down undead and demons. Gothic horror settings, macabre black humor and inventive weapons like the voodoo doll make it a cult classic.

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Dread and tension

A classic WWII shooter where B.J. Blazkowicz battles Nazi occultists, undead, and super-soldier experiments across gloomy castles and labs. It also shipped with an influential class-based, objective-driven team multiplayer mode.