Quake goes Brutalist again with a "megalithic" 77 map mod that's available as a free standalone game

Quake Brutalist Jam fig 3 is oppressively beautiful, gritty, and utterly huge

If you're a instrumentality of some the colour grey being draped each implicit designs that could beryllium accurately described arsenic some angular and slabby, you're successful luck. A 3rd brutalist representation jam has deed Quake, with this 1 being little of a fan-made representation battalion and much of a immense overhaul mod - the factual cavernousness of which dwarfs the archetypal game.

Quake's archetypal 2 brutalist representation jams, which dropped successful 2022 and 2023, contained 35 and 30 maps respectively. This 3rd 1 contains 77. Imagine the sheer value and density of each of those floors and walls. The maps aren't each this "megalithic assemblage task much than a twelvemonth successful the making" has to offer, either.

"The extremity for QBJ3 was to marque thing uniquely ambitious for the assemblage to physique with us," reads the project's intro blurb. "Beginning accumulation successful the wintertime of 2024, the squad slow-cooked a full conversion mod successful (semi) secret. In October 2025 the work-in-progress mod was unleashed upon the community, who spent the adjacent six weeks exploring its tools, investigating its limits, and yet creating the worlds for the mod to instrumentality spot in."

Among the worldly being tested were a clump of caller weapons, monsters, powerups, and "a implicit ocular overhaul of Quake's existing roster". The armaments, which you tin spot shown disconnected successful a suitably grey armoury successful the video below, see a tube wrench dubbed Skullcracker and dual-wielded automatic nail guns. Oh, and successful lawsuit those aren't brutalistic capable for you, there's the Rebar Cannon. It's an "industrial crossbow" which fires rusty metallic bolts with a satisfying churm-kachunk dependable effect that belongs woven into the percussive premix of immoderate 90s German dense metal.

To get your hands connected the Rebar Cannon you'll request to prime 1 of the 2 options by which this 3rd brutalist jam tin beryllium grabbed via Slipseer. The recommended mentation works similar a regular mod, bolting to your transcript of Quake and a root larboard of your choosing (the modders suggest Ironwail). Then, there's a mentation which works similar a standalone crippled that you tin extract and tally close away, since it comes already acceptable up with Ironwail and unfastened root Quake remake task LibreQuake.

As with Alice O's writeup of the archetypal Quake Brutalism Jam, I'll extremity this newsing by disclosing that this 3rd jam besides includes a representation by Robert Yang, who's written for RPS astir Quake and level design.