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PCPC · 2005 · FPS

Quake 4

Quake 4 (PC, 2005) has a source port, themuffinator/openQ4, and 3 other public projects, including an official source code release.

Projects

Source portGPL id Tech 4 engine (dhewm3 lineage) + SDK-licensed game modules149 starspushed 2026-10-07GPL-3.0 licenserelease v0.13.2

The modern way to play QUAKE 4.

Replaces Quake 4 engine and game binaries; playable with retail assets

openQ4-gamearchived
Source release7 starspushed 2026-10-01custom license

openQ4 game libraries

repo archived; dropped from awesome-decomp-games: awesome-game-remakes-only, <

Source portid Tech 4 (MSVC)0 starspushed 2026-08-08no license

Quake 4 alpha released for preservation purposes only.

Live copy of jmarshall23/Quake_4_Alpha (upstream now 404) - alpha source released for preservation only; legal status unclear

Quake 4
Source releaseC++ (id Tech 4)GPL-2.0 license

Wikipedia: open-source code, proprietary assets; source released 2021 by/for Raven Software. Adapted to the GPL id Tech 4 source code from Doom 3 with some issues remaining. [Some linked GitHub URLs 404 as of Oct 2026:

What you need

You need your own copy of the game: these projects ship code only.

More on PC

Found via SubmitGame/awesome-decomp-games/blob/main/data/d, radek-sprta/awesome-game-remakes, jmarshall23/Quake_4_Alpha, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_g, jmarshall23/Quake4Doom

GitHub data checked 2026-10-12. Notes are summaries from the research pass; the project pages are the authority.