A love letter to the Quake series, free and open source FPS Quetoo is out now

After 19 years, Quetoo has finally released as a true love letter to the classic Quake series. It's free, has Linux support and is open source. Better late than never right?

From the developers: "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’t just a game, it was an obsession. In the early 2000’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.

Decades later, Quetoo is our counterpoint to the modern arena shooter. Quetoo’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."

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Highlight Features:

Classic Deathmatch

Deathmatch, Team DM, Capture the Flag, Instagib, and Rocket Arena gameplay modes, plus bot 🤖 support.

Legendary Maps

High quality remakes of id Software's legendary Quake, Quake 2 and Quake 3 levels, plus many originals.

Modern Rendering

Real-time lighting with soft shadowmapping, bump mapping with parallax occlusion, HDR and bloom.

Level Editing

Dramatically improved artwork pipeline with in-game editor as well as TrenchBroom and Radiant support.

Cross Platform

Runs natively on Linux, macOS and Windows. Dedicated server packaging for Linux. Play with friends on any platform.

Free & Open Source

100% free to download, play and modify. Source code licensed under GPL v2, artwork licensed under Creative Commons.

See more on the official site and GitHub.