# Quake ported to safe Rust

12 Hacker News commenters recommended Quake ported to safe Rust and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Fun, impressive port of Quake to safe Rust, with a browser build and visual diff harness; multiplayer is not working.

## Why people recommend it

- Fun and impressive to play (4 comments): "I enjoyed playing around for a bit... it's impressive." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019350)) "Impressive! I had 20 good minutes of memories" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50045004)) "ok this beats my doom minesweaper mashup" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50016537))
- Improves on original, verified by diffs (2 comments): "It does have various improvements over the original version." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50017038)) "the author even supplied a "proof" visual diff harness" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50016508))

## What people warn about

- Seen as trivial or pointless (3 comments): "The endavour doesn't have much value at all except as an experiment" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50016882)) "this is a trivial project for an LLM, and kind of pointless" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50016765)) "I don't see any need for this." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50016749))
- Called AI-generated slop (2 comments): "Another slop project highly likely to be abandoned in about a month." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50016719)) "it's the playable allegory of the cave but in vibecoded rust" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50016795))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Helldivers 2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/helldivers-2.md): 50 recommend
- [Triple-A Minesweeper](https://hackerapproved.com/p/triple-a-minesweeper.md): 40 recommend
- [Quake II](https://hackerapproved.com/p/quake-2.md): 33 recommend
- [Red Dead Redemption 2](https://hackerapproved.com/p/red-dead-redemption-2.md): 28 recommend
- [Grand Theft Auto (1997)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/grand-theft-auto.md): 28 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Quake ported to safe Rust", https://hackerapproved.com/p/quake-ported-to-safe-rust/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).