Quake III Arena Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-05
- Timeless Arena FPS Classic
- Fun Simple Gameplay
- Precise and Satisfying Weapons
- Technical issues on modern systems
- Dead multiplayer community
- No single-player campaign
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMpositiveWindows 12-15GB VRAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Overwhelmingly Positive (9/10)
- Total reviews
- 4,114
- Positive
- 3,94295.8%
- Negative
- 1724.2%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 305,949
- Estimated revenue
- $4,586,176
- Game price
- $15
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 71.72%
- Estimated copies lost
- 521
- Estimated revenue lost
- $7,810
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 71.7% Avg playtime 0.6h | 7618.6% Avg playtime 0.8h |
| > 2h playtime | 92.2% Avg playtime 8.9h | 31677.5% Avg playtime 52.8h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.1 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 0.6 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 5.6 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,687.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
408 total
Organic purchasers34684.8%
Voted up: 96%
Key activations6215.2%
Voted up: 98%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
408 total
First impression0-2h12630.9%
Voted up: 93%
Mid game2-10h17943.9%
Voted up: 97%
Late game10-20h5413.2%
Voted up: 98%
Endgame20h+4912.0%
Voted up: 98%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
100.0%
Global baseline 96.1%
5 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 4,114 total.