Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Web Quake
The original Quake in your browser
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Web Quake launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Quake has been ported to the web plenty of times, so that part isn't new. But I experimented with the GitHub Copilot app and Claude Opus 4.8 to take id Software's original source, compiled the software renderer to WebAssembly with Emscripten. The cool part: I added support for procedurally generated levels. So after you clear a level, the slipgate opens and you move onto the next random one... with a new room layout, textures, monster placement, working doors with keys, etc. It's pretty challenging. I also added Soudncloud integration (configurable in Options) so can listen to the new NIN…
Jun 2026 · leereilly.net · its alternatives →
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I've been building a level editor for Quake 3 that runs entirely in the browser: Radiant-style layout, brush and patch editing, CSG, terrain sculpting, and entity editing. It opens and saves .map file and you can play the maps you build directly in the browser using a webassembly build of ioquake3.
Jul 2026 · q3edit.com · its alternatives →
- 12IM
I've posted this game here before, hopefully a repost is fine as the game has changed quite a bit (improved AI, improved mapeditor, much quicker gameplay, etc). Game is based on JavaScript/Canvas and WebSockets. On the browser side the map is pre-rendered (as a background image), just the mobile units/buildings and animations are dynamically rendered. The lobby server is made in node.js, but the game server is C++ for performance reasons (mainly the pathfinding). I found the C++ WebSocket libraries out there to be too difficult to use so I made my own based on the rfc. Overall I…
2022 · battle-of-flags.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Web Rewind▲98An interactive journey through 30 years of the web
Mar 2026 · web-rewind.com · its alternatives →
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Play a browser Quake port rendered as inspectable HTML and CSS 3D geometry through PolyCSS, with no WebGL or canvas renderer.
Jun 2026 · cssquake.com · its alternatives →
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After 25 years of writing software, I was feeling nostalgic for the kinds of things that got me into programming in the first place: the old DOS demoscene. I spent a weekend seeing if I could recapture some of that INT 13H VGA magic using today's web tech, but with the old-school constraints of doing it from scratch. The result is this portfolio of ten classic effects running in a single HTML file. It's all vanilla JavaScript writing to a element, with no external libraries. It was a fun challenge to implement things like: * The color palette cycling and smooth fading in the Plasma demo. *…
2025 · jdfio.com · its alternatives →
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Digital Trip▲69A story about the latest technologies through a browser game
2016 · its alternatives →
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asciiQuake▲16Play Quake rendered as a live ASCII character grid through GlyphCSS, with no WebGL or canvas renderer.
10d ago · asciiquake.wtf · its alternatives →
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