Quake is id Software's pioneering first-person shooter that helped define fast, arena-style combat and online multiplayer for the genre. Players fight through dark, gothic levels full of monstrous enemies using a fast-moving arsenal of weapons.

Its tight movement and level design became a foundation for the competitive shooters that followed, and its cooperative and deathmatch multiplayer modes were influential in their own right. The single-player campaign spans several episodes of increasingly dangerous dimensions to fight through.