Quake (series)

The game's original plot focused on the player character, later known as "Ranger" in Quake III: Arena, who travels across alternate dimensions to stop an enemy code-named "Quake". The game takes place in a Lovecraftian setting with a mixture of dark fantasy, pseudo-medieval and science fiction.[21][22]

• Quake (1996)
  • Quake Mission Pack No. 1: Scourge of Armagon (1997)
  • Quake Mission Pack No. 2: Dissolution of Eternity (1997)
  • Quake: Dimension of the Past (2016)

An in-name only sequel that shifted the series to the science fiction genre, Quake II and its sequels chronicle the war between humanity and the cybernetic alien race known as the Strogg.[23]

• Quake II (1997)
  • Quake II Mission Pack: The Reckoning (1998)
  • Quake II Mission Pack: Ground Zero (1998)
• Quake 4 (2005)
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (2007; successor to Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory with a storyline set before the events of Quake II)

With a focus on competitive multiplayer, Quake III Arena and its successors de-emphasised the setting of the first two games while still retaining continuity with them and crossing over with id's Doom franchise. Quake Champions, in particular, is heavily influenced by the mythology of the original game.[24]

• Quake III Arena (1999)
  • Quake III: Team Arena (2000)
  • Quake Live (2010; an updated version of Quake III Arena originally designed as a free-to-play game launched via a web plug-in)
• Quake Champions (2017)