Quake 4

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 87%Very Positive · 87%2011

$14.99

US Steam price, checked 1 h ago

The verdict

A slower, Doom 3-style sci-fi shooter with gory Strogg body horror and a memorable stroggification scene. Skip it if you want fast Quake movement or hate tweaking config files on modern PCs.

Great for

Fans of 2000s linear shooters, Doom 3 and body horror who don't mind tweaking config files

Main risk

Broken default graphics/resolution on modern PCs, plus slow, linear gameplay that isn't fast Quake

What players love

Nostalgic classic that still holds up

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“This game is over 20 years old and still a badass experience.”
Steam review · 14.9 h played ↗

“Sometimes straight forward FPS gaming is all you need. No bloat, no battlepasses/loot boxes etc.”
Steam review · 6 h played ↗

Satisfying gunplay and weapons

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“Fun, cool, satisfying weapons to use, great sci-fi atmosphere and visuals with some horror(body horror) elements.”
Steam review · 6 h played ↗

“good weapon variety, and weapons feel satisfying to shoot”
Steam review · 7.9 h played ↗

Gory body-horror atmosphere

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“Simply the best body horror; the game hasn't aged a bit.”
Steam review · translated · 10.6 h played ↗

“the atmosphere is excellent with a lot of interesting body horror”
Steam review · 5 h played ↗

“if you like weird alien races and ominous places with dysmorphic, gruesome atmosphere, Quake 4 is for you.”
Steam review · 10.4 h played ↗

Good story and cinematic set pieces

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“Great story, amazing gunplay, and crazy ass moments.”
Steam review · 9.8 h played ↗

“The direction is on the level of Modern Warfare games of that era.”
Steam review · translated · 47 h played ↗

Great with mods and source ports

Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews

“INSTALL OPENQ4. Amazing project that brings this gem into line with modern day standards!”
Steam review · 0.9 h played ↗

What players complain about

Broken graphics and resolution on modern PCs

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“no matter how high you put the graphics settings, they will automatically load low res textures and turn off AA.”
Steam review · 5.1 h played ↗

“Bethesda has abandoned us to dig around in config files as opposed to fixing it.”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗

“It doesn't support modern screen resolutions or the Steam overlay.”
Steam review · translated · 1.8 h played ↗

Too slow, not like real Quake

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“This game is like that dream where you are trying to run away from a bear, but the harder you try to run, the slower you go”
Steam review · 2.4 h played ↗

“Complete inadequate player speed paired with idiotic bullet sponge enemy design.”
Steam review · 6.7 h played ↗

“40% of the game before you get [spoiler]stroggified[/spoiler] is fucking boring.”
Steam review · 6.6 h played ↗

Repetitive, dark, linear corridors

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“What I really don't like about this game is that everything is just a dark corridor after a dark corridor.”
Steam review · 12.7 h played ↗

“A linear game. A very linear game. A very, very linear game.”
Steam review · 2.3 h played ↗

Crashes, bugs and activation issues

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“Game crashes on 70% of the load screens.”
Steam review · 1.2 h played ↗

“it asked for a "CD KEY" which was unable in steam.”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗

Weak guns and bullet-sponge enemies

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“Guns in this game are perhaps the wimpiest of any FPS game I've played.”
Steam review · 10.8 h played ↗

“it's going to be all about bulletsponge enemies that have almost no reaction while you empty magazines on them”
Steam review · 13.4 h played ↗

Clunky vehicle and turret sections

Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews

“has one of the WORST vehicle sections ever made, and the final boss is atrocious”
Steam review · 6.7 h played ↗

“A colossal number of turret sections and rides in tanks and mechs.”
Steam review · translated · 9.4 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Unknown

Minimum

OSWindows® XP

ProcessorIntel® Pentium® 4 2.0 GHz or AMD® Athlon® XP 2000+ processor or higher

Memory512MB RAM

Graphics100% DirectX® 9.0c compatible 64MB 3D hardware accelerated video card required

Storage2.8GB of uncompressed free hard disk space (plus 400MB for Windows® swap file)

OSWindows® XP

ProcessorIntel® Pentium® 4 2.0 GHz or AMD® Athlon® XP 2000+ processor or higher

Memory512MB RAM

Graphics100% DirectX® 9.0c compatible 64MB 3D hardware accelerated video card required

Storage2.8GB of uncompressed free hard disk space (plus 400MB for Windows® swap file)

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