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Guides · Quake III Arena

How to Install Quake III Arena and Join a Server

Good Quake III players do not shoot at people. They shoot at the floor beside them, because a rocket aimed where you will be beats one aimed where you are.

· 9 min read
Guides · Quake II

How to Install Quake II and Join a Server

Buy Quake II, install it, run it, and the first thing you will notice is that it is a 1997 game behaving exactly like a 1997 game.

· 9 min read
Guides · Quake

How to Install Quake and Join a Server

Nobody plays Quake online with the executable id Software shipped in 1996, and the reason is a piece of software history that most games never had.

· 9 min read
Guides · Quake 4

How to Install Quake 4 and Join a Server

About a third of the way through Quake 4 you are captured, strapped to a conveyor belt and fed into the machine that turns prisoners into Strogg.

· 9 min read
Guides · Project Zomboid

How to Install Project Zomboid and Join a Server

The game tells you how it ends before you take a step: "This is how you died." Not if. Your character has a fixed destination, and only the route is open.

· 9 min read
Guides · Palworld

How to Install Palworld and Join a Server

The question that decides how to play Palworld: do you want your base running while you sleep? If not, host from your own machine and invite three friends.

· 9 min read
Guides · Nightingale

How to Install Nightingale and Join a Server

In most survival games you walk to a new biome. In Nightingale you specify one. There is a portal, and the portal has slots in it.

· 9 min read
Guides · Necesse

How to Install Necesse and Join a Server

There is a moment in Necesse when you stop mining, because a settler you recruited and handed a pickaxe is working the seam while you are islands away.

· 9 min read
Guides · Myth of Empires

How to Install Myth of Empires and Join a Server

Most survival games stop their arms race at a hole in a wall. Myth of Empires keeps going, into siege engines, recruited armies and guild-sized walls.

· 9 min read
Guides · Mumble

How to Install Mumble and Join a Server

Someone is talking and you can hear which direction they are in. The voice comes from over there, slightly behind you, and moves as they walk around.

· 9 min read