The Big List of Quake Engines

Quakespasm [sezero/quakespasm]

QuakeSpasm is a *Nix friendly Quake Engine based on the SDL port of the popular FitzQuake. It includes some new features, important fixes, and aims for portability and 64 bit correctness.

vkQuake [Novum/vkQuake]

Vulkan Quake port based on QuakeSpasm

Quakespasm-Spiked [Shpoike/Quakespasm]

Extra bloaty junk to modernise stuff a bit. http://triptohell.info/moodles/qss/

FTE QuakeWorld [fte-team/fteqw]

FTE QuakeWorld is a QuakeWorld derivative which mainly focuses on modding and additional features for both users and servers. Supports NetQuake gamecode and protocol, Hexen 2/Quake 2/Quake 3 maps and models, many QuakeC builtin extensions, and more.

Ironwail [andrei-drexler/ironwail]

High-performance QuakeSpasm fork

ezQuake [ezQuake/ezquake-source]

main ezQuake source code base https://ezquake.github.io/

Mark_V @quakeone.com

Classic Quake engine derived from FitzQuake, also has a software renderer (WinQuake version). Does many things and tries to do each of them very well.

DarkPlaces @gitlab [xonotic/darkplaces]

The DarkPlaces Quake Engine that powers Xonotic https://xonotic.org https://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/

JoeQuake [j0zzz/JoeQuake]

Quake engine mod targeted for speedrunning

QuakeForge [quakeforge/quakeforge]

QuakeForge is a set of 3D graphics game engines based on id Software's legendary Quake series of game engines.

MHQuakeSpasm [mhQuake/MHQuakeSpasm]

MH fork of latest QuakeSpasm

Tyrquake @disenchant.net/tyrquake

Tyr-Quake is a branch of the Quake source code released by id. It's intended to support Quake and Quakeworld while fixing little bugs that have come up over the years.

Libretro Tyrquake [libretro/tyrquake]

Libretro port of Tyrquake (Quake 1 engine)

qengine [klaussilveira/qengine]

Retro game engine for developers that enjoy creating games like it's 1997.

Super8 [qbism/super8]

qbism super8 engine based on Makaqu and Quake source code

GLQuake3D [dpteam/GLQuake3D]

WinQuake/GLQuake-based source-port of game Quake

WebQuake [Triang3l/WebQuake]

HTML5/WebGL source port of Quake.

vitaQuake [Rinnegatamante/vitaQuake]

Port of Quake for Playstation Vita

vitaQuakePlus [Diabolickal/vitaQuakePlus]

Crowd sourced enhancement of Rinnegatamante's vitaQuake. https://github.com/Rinnegatamante/vitaQuake

ChadQuake [adolfintel/ChadQuake]

Fork of Mark V WinQuake

Xonotic @gitlab [xonotic/xonotic]

Main repo - contains build scripts and tools to manage the other repos (which contain the actual code and assets)

Engoo [leilei-/Engoo]

Pointless and heavily modified software-rendered source port based on the QIP source release based on Quake GPL Source Release currently working on the Windows platform only.

QuakeJS [inolen/quakejs]

QuakeJS is a port of ioquake3 to JavaScript with the help of Emscripten

Quake (original) [id-Software/Quake]

Quake GPL Source Release

Yamagi Quake II [yquake2/yquake2]

The Yamagi Quake II client

KMQuake2 @markshan.com/knightmare

KMQuake 2 is a Quake 2 Source port created by Knightmare. The goal of the sourceport was to add more limits for mappers to use in their custom maps. Along with that, the source port has also many new rendering effects such as shadows, dynamic lights, high-res texture support, improved interface, and more features.

Quake2xp @sourceforge [quake2xp]

QuakeIIxp is a multi-platform (windows, linux and freeBSD (experemental)) graphics port of the game Quake II developed by Id Software. Completely updated rendering takes full advantage of the latest graphics cards to get the perfect picture, preserving the original style of the game.

Q2PRO [skullernet/q2pro]

Enhanced Quake 2 client and server focused on multiplayer

vkQuake2 [kondrak/vkQuake2]

id Software's Quake 2 v3.21 with mission packs and Vulkan support (Windows, Linux, MacOS)

Quetoo [jdolan/quetoo]

Quetoo ("Q2") is a free first person shooter based on id Tech2. GPL v2 license.

See also: quetoo-data

Q2RTX [NVIDIA/Q2RTX]

NVIDIA’s implementation of RTX ray-tracing in Quake II

Polyhedron Engine [PolyhedronStudio/Polyhedron-Engine]

The core engine forked from NVidia's Q2RTX. Heavily modified and extended to allow for a nicer experience
all-round.

Jake2 [demoth/jake2]

Jake2 is a port of the Quake2 game engine to Java.

DirectQII [mhQuake/DirectQII]

Quake 2 sourceport using Direct3D renderer

vitaQuakeII [Rinnegatamante/vitaQuakeII]

Quake II port for PSVITA.

iqq2 [coltongit/iqq2]

A fan continuation of support for the original Quake 2 - updated to 3.21

Cake [raynorpat/cake]

A portable and advanced Quake 2 engine base for mods to build upon

Quake2c [Paril/quake2c]

Quake II game DLL that runs a QuakeC VM

See also: Quake2c-progs

Quake-2 (original) [id-Software/Quake-2]

ioquake3 [ioquake/ioq3]

The ioquake3 community effort to continue supporting/developing id's Quake III Arena https://www.ioquake3.org/

ioq3-premake-msvc [jpcy/ioq3-premake-msvc]

A Premake script for generating Visual Studio projects for ioquake3

Quake3e [ec-/Quake3e]

Improved Quake III Arena engine

Daemon [DaemonEngine/Daemon]

The Dæmon game engine. With some bits of ioq3 and XreaL.

Spearmint [zturtleman/spearmint]

Spearmint, an updated id Tech 3 engine for continuing the classics and creating new games.

OpenArena/engine [OpenArena/engine]

OpenArena modifications to the ioquake3 engine http://openarena.ws

See also: OpenArena/gamecode

vitaQuakeIII [Rinnegatamante/vitaQuakeIII]

ioquake3 port for PSVITA (Currently supporting Quake III: Arena, Quake III: Team Arena, OpenArena, Urban Terror and Q3Rally)

vkQuake3 [suijingfeng/vkQuake3]

Its based on ioq3，I add a vulkan based modular render back end which originally from https://github.com/kennyalive/Quake-III-Arena-Kenny-Edition

See also: vkOpenArena

Q3lite [cdev-tux/q3lite]

Q3lite, an OpenGL ES port of Quake III Arena for embedded Linux systems.

dfengine [ykram/dfengine]

Defrag specific Quake 3: Arena engine.

XreaL [raynorpat/xreal]

XreaL is a heavily improved Quake 3 Arena engine. It's bundled with new tools and a demo game that was never finished.

DXQuake3 [coltongit/dxquake3]

DXQuake3, a Quake III engine in DirectX by Richard Geary

Quake-III-Arena-Kenny-Edition [kennyalive/Quake-III-Arena-Kenny-Edition]

The cradle of Quake III Arena

Qio [KuehnhammerTobias/qio]

An umodified copy of the Qio source code (by Vodin).

QuakeConstruct [zturtleman/quakeconstruct]

Unofficial mirror. Quake Construct is a quake3 mod that allows anyone with at least some knowledge of the lua programming language to create *simple, small modifications for the Quake 3 engine.

cake3 [raynorpat/cake3]

XreaL based cleanup project

Ioid3-qw [KuehnhammerTobias/ioqw-devel]

An updated id Tech 3 game, based on Zack Middleton's Spearmint engine (for developers only).

vkOpenArena [suijingfeng/vkOpenArena]

Old games never die, they just fade away... http://openarena.ws

ioQuake3DS [masterfeizz/ioQuake3DS]

ioquake3 port for Nintendo DS

WolfcamQL [brugal/wolfcamql]

quakelive/quake3 demo player

RBQUAKE-3 [RobertBeckebans/RBQUAKE-3]

About Personal Quake III Arena toy engine based on my old XreaL Q3A project (2006 - 2011)

ioq3-for-UrbanTerror-4 [FrozenSand/ioq3-for-UrbanTerror-4]

The officially supported ioquake3 engine by the Frozen Sand Development Team for the game Urban Terror 4.x http://www.urbanterror.info

ioquake3 for UrbanTerror [mickael9/ioq3]

This is an up-to-date fork of ioquake3 for UrbanTerror with changes from the ioUrbanTerror engine

Quake3e-UrT [travmon/quake3e-urt]

Improved Quake III Arena engine (Quake3e for UrT)

ioq3-renderer-bgfx [jpcy/ioq3-renderer-bgfx]

A renderer for ioquake3 that uses bgfx

iodfengine [runaos/iodfe]

iodfengine is a defrag-oriented engine, a fork of ioquake3 with some dfengine features and some new things

SWiSH_ioUrT [spekode/SWiSH_ioUrT]

Mirror of strata's improved ioquake3/Urban Terror build http://sacc.pugbot.com/doku.php

UrTDevs-Client [urtdevs/UrTDevs-Client]

A improved Client for Urban Terror 4.1.1/4.2.003 (WiP)

planet_quake [briancullinan/planet_quake]

Combination of graphics and features from many different games.

See also: planet_quake_data

Quake-III-Arena (original) [id-Software/Quake-III-Arena]

Quake III Arena GPL Source Release

ET: Legacy [etlegacy/etlegacy]

GrangerHub's STELLAR PREY™ game is a first person strategy shooter, originally based on darklegion development's Tremulous game and built on TheDushan's OpenWolf Engine.

ET: Legacy (deprecated) [etlegacy/etlegacy-deprecated]

ET: Legacy is based on the source code of the Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory which was released under the GPLv3 license. The main goal of this project is to fix bugs, remove old dependencies and make…

ETe [etfdevs/ETe]

Improved Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Engine

iortcw [iortcw/iortcw]

Merge of ioquake3 features and fixes into RTCW code bases

RealRTCW [wolfetplayer/RealRTCW]

RealRTCW mod based on ioRTCW engine. Features improved visuals, expanded arsenal, rebalanced gunplay and proper modern systems support.

RTCW-SP [Justasic/RTCW-SP]

This is the Return to Castle Wolfenstein GPL open source release. This fork is intended to provide many bug fixes and improvements over the original release of the game as well as import fixes from…

RTCWCOOP [rtcwcoop/rtcwcoop]

A Return to Castle Wolfenstein modification which enables cooperative gameplay, based on iortcw

ET-XreaL @sourceforge [xreal/ET-XreaL]

ET:XreaL is a subproject bringing all XreaL enhancements to Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.

Open-Territory @sourceforge [openterritory/openterritory]

A World War Two shooter based on the GPL’d Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory source code.

See also: Open-Territory-etmain

OpenCoD [KILLTUBE/OpenCoD]

reimplementation of cod

OpenWolf [TheDushan/OpenWolf-Engine]

OpenWolf Engine

OpenWolf (old) [QuakeEngines/OpenWolf-Engine]

Heavy modified idTech3 engine.

See also: OpenWolf-main, OpenWolf-main-textures

OpenWolf (XreaL) [illwieckz/OpenWolf]

Another backup of OpenWolf that was deleted, the one based on XreaL

Enemy-Territory (original) [id-Software/Enemy-Territory]

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory GPL Source Release

RTCW-SP (original) [id-Software/RTCW-SP]

Return to Castle Wolfenstein Single Player GPL Source Release

RTCW-MP (original) [id-Software/RTCW-MP]

Return to Castle Wolfenstein Multiplayer GPL Source Release

dhewm3 [dhewm/dhewm3]

dhewm 3 main repository https://dhewm3.org/

See also: dhewm3-sdk

RBDOOM-3-BFG [RobertBeckebans/RBDOOM-3-BFG]

Doom 3 BFG Edition with soft shadows, cleaned up source, Linux and 64 bit Support

fhDOOM [eXistence/fhDOOM]

Modernized DOOM3/idTech4 engine: ported to modern OpenGL (core profile), enhanced visual effects, improved performance, improved editor, more to come

StormEngine2 [motorsep/StormEngine2]

Storm Engine 2 (modified RBDoom 3 BFG game engine)

iodoom3 [iodoom/iod3]

iodoom3 - Open source, cross platform Doom 3 (GPLv3) http://www.iodoom3.org/

IcedTech [jmarshall23/IcedTech]

New idTech 4 engine with virtual texturing, CaS, GLSL, Radiant.NET and more!

Doom3MegaTexture [jmarshall23/Doom3MegaTexture]

Some people have been asking for the finished Doom 3 megatexture code, so here it is.

DOOM-3 (original) [id-Software/DOOM-3]

Doom 3 GPL source release

DOOM-3-BFG [id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG]

Doom 3 BFG Edition

OpenJK [JACoders/OpenJK]

Community effort to maintain and improve Jedi Academy (SP & MP) + Jedi Outcast (SP only) released by Raven Software

See also: OpenJK-Tools

Jedi Academy: Renaissance [mrwonko/Jedi-Academy-Renaissance]

Jedi Academy: Renaissance is fork of OpenJK

OpenSoF2MP [kneirinck/OpenSoF2MP]

Getting Soldier of Fortune 2 Multiplayer to work by using a heavily modified JK engine

freeking [aylaylay/freeking]

Open source reimplementation of Kingpin: Life of Crime

TrenchBroom [kduske/TrenchBroom]

Cross-Platform Level Editor http://kristianduske.com/trenchbroom

NetRadiant @gitlab [xonotic/netradiant]

The open source, cross platform level editor for idtech games (GtkRadiant fork) - https://netradiant.gitlab.io

NetRadiant-custom [Garux/netradiant-custom]

The open-source, cross-platform level editor for id Tech based games.

GtkRadiant [TTimo/GtkRadiant]

The open source, cross platform level editor for idtech games

DarkRadiant [codereader/DarkRadiant]

DarkRadiant is the map editor for The Dark Mod and other idTech4/Doom3-based games

QuArK @sourceforge [quark]

A powerful editor for games based on or similar to id Software's series of Quake games. Currently supports 37 distinct games, and a countless number of mods. Integrates a map editor, model editor, archive editors and texture management.

GtkRadiant (original) [id-Software/GtkRadiant]

GtkRadiant GPL Source Release

QStat [multiplay/qstat]

New official qstat repository

XQF [XQF/xqf]

XQF game server browser

Simple Quake Launcher 2 [m-x-d/Simple-Quake-Launcher-2]

A simple map/mod/demo launcher for Quake, Quake 2, Hexen 2 and Half-Life.

Kingpin SDK v1.21 @kingpin.info

Unofficial mirror of Kingpin SDK

OpenJK-Tools [JACoders/OpenJK-Tools]

Community effort to maintain and improve the SDK tools for Jedi Academy + Jedi Outcast released by Raven Software

See also: OpenJK

dhewm3-sdk [dhewm/dhewm3-sdk]

An SDK to create Mods for dhewm3

See also: dhewm3

Quake-Tools (original) [id-Software/Quake-Tools]

The source release of the Quake tools and utilities

Quake-2-Tools (original) [id-Software/Quake-2-Tools]

Quake 2 Tools GPL Source Release