Quake II RTX overview

Overview

Quake II RTX comes from Lightspeed Studios™ and is published by NVIDIA. It arrived on Steam on Jun 6, 2019, and it sits naturally among Single-player and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Quake II RTX's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 5 players at 26 September 2026 - 00:52:50 UTC, with a tracked peak near 31. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 87% positive across 4,740 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Quake II RTX is available in 1 languages including:

6 regional rating boards including esrb, pegi, usk, oflc, and nzoflc

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Quake II RTX has sold up to 166,000 units and has recommendation data pending. Revenue data is not available for this game yet. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Quake II RTX overview details

Quake II RTX combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Download Quake II RTX Quake II RTX is fully ray-traced and includes the 3 levels from the original shareware distribution. Game Description Shortly after landing on an alien surface, you learn that hundreds of your men have been reduced to just a few. Now you must fight your way through heavily fortified military installations, lower the city's defenses and shut down the enemy's war machine. Only then will the fate of humanity be known. About Quake II RTX Quake II RTX builds on the work of Christoph Schied and the team at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, who added ray tracing to Quake II to create Q2VKPT (in turn building upon the Q2PRO code base). NVIDIA has introduced new path-traced visual effects, has improved texturing, and has made dozens of other changes and improvements, resulting in an experience that rivals games created today, and pushes your RTX hardware to the limit. Buy Quake II Purchase the game to access all levels as well as multiplayer support.

SteamPulse editorial summary

Quake II RTX is listed as a game with Free to play. It supports Windows and Linux, belongs to Single-player and Family Sharing, and is associated with Action and Free To Play. SteamPulse's latest observation records 5 players at 26 September 2026 - 00:52:50 UTC, a tracked peak of 31, and 87% positive reviews.

Overview tags

Free to PlayActionFPSViolentMultiplayerGoreFirst-PersonSingleplayerShooterClassicSci-fiRemakeRetroBoomer Shooter

Content descriptors

Blood Gore Animated Violence

Support and legal notes

Real questions answered from SteamPulse data, including live players, monthly momentum, review sentiment, regional audience signals, Twitch activity, and current Steam pricing.