Quake Live
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9970% off
- Cost per hour
- $12.49/hr
- Reviews▼
- 87% of 15,919
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 0.8h
- To 100%
- 106.5h 133.1x the story
- Finish
- 4% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 58
Price and sales
- Sales
- 49 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 December 2015
- Sale every
- 53d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 175 now
- Cheaper than
- 34% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 90% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
30% start to <1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 49 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 5 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Quake III Arena ($14.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats TOXIKK™ (free, scores 48).
More about Quake Live
This site sampled 566 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 15 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 653 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 0.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 107, 133 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Cause it is game of m childhood, a lot of hours were spend in computer clubs and a lot of funny moments there. It is not just a game. It is part of our culture already
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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DIsplay is broken, changing resolution opens the game zoomed in, can't change it back
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Experience the most exciting and fast-paced FPS gameplay while competing with players from around the world in over 100 arenas, a dozen game modes, and with persistent career stats tracking, in this online features-focused successor to Quake III Arena.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Quake Live scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/282440/quake-liveReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.