Also Steam acquired its user base in the first place by vendor lock-in on Quake mods. (Counter-Strike derived from Navy Seals Quake, Team Fortress was originally a Quake mod, and Half-Life is a Quake total conversion originally sold on a CD-ROM in a box.)

I prefer Jack (updated Hammer) since Trenchbroom makes things deliberately difficult / broken so it can drive traffic to its discord by saying “The solution is in our discord!” instead of posting documentation on the open web.

https://jack.hlfx.ru/en/

Indeed. Steam client is an Electron app that can display advertisements, too.

https://i.imgur.com/08dhZb5.mp4

They are each bloatware that insists upon itself.

If Steam had not acquired a userbase by vendor lock-in it would be no more popular than any other “game launcher”.

Coffee Quake 2, a collection of 132 player-created Quake maps, each with an expected play time of about five minutes- roughly the length of a coffee break.

https://www.slipseer.com/index.php?resources/coffee-quake-2-double-shot.213/

The maps’ brevity keeps things feeling fresh. There’s some unevenness but I can say this much for even the weakest inclusions: They’re short.

The first Coffee Quake is also good fun.

quake mapping community in 2026:

“Download and support documentation are in our Discord!”