Sauerbraten
Ranked 15 of 24 first-person shooters by recommenders
A free, open-source first-person shooter that people remember fondly for multiplayer sessions with friends and its team-based servers.
A free, open-source first-person shooter that people remember fondly for multiplayer sessions with friends and its team-based servers.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fun multiplayer with friends
“we played Sauerbraten and a handful of other games exhaustively with a crossover cable strung between our rooms”
Comment from 25 Oct 2026 in “The Goose Programming Language” “i absolutely loved the sauerbraten TOSOK (Team One Shot One Kill) venice servers”
Comment from 4 Dec 2025 in “Unreal Tournament 2004 is back” “Definitely spent some evenings playing that with my roomies”
Comment from 4 Mar 2026 in “Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language” Fond memories of playing
“I still have fond memories of Ogre3D and Sauerbraten (Cube).”
Comment from 23 Oct 2026 in “Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool” “Sauerbraten is such an amazing game”
Comment from 25 Oct 2026 in “The Goose Programming Language” “Sauerbraten scratched that itch”
Comment from 4 Dec 2025 in “Unreal Tournament 2004 is back” - Comment from 4 Dec 2025 in “Unreal Tournament 2004 is back”
Other first-person shooters people recommend
The four most recommended other first-person shooters, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quake | 118 | 29 | 80% | 12 | 28 yrs8 owners | Approved |
| Doom by id Software | 102 | 24 | 81% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Unreal Tournament 2004 | 51 | 12 | 81% | 6 | — | Approved |
| Quake III Arena | 49 | 3 | 94% | 10 | — | Approved |
| SauerbratenThis page | 9 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“we played Sauerbraten and a handful of other games exhaustively with a crossover cable strung between our rooms”
“Sauerbraten is such an amazing game”
“you made Lobster lang, Cube2/Sauerbraten 3d shooter and voxray/voxile and lots of other cool things”
“I still have fond memories of Ogre3D and Sauerbraten (Cube).”
“http://sauerbraten.org/ (and their corresponding source code) -- they are very simple”
“I have fond memories of porting Cube, Sauerbraten and AssaultCube to the Mac back in the day.”
“Definitely spent some evenings playing that with my roomies”
“Sauerbraten was just so good”
“i absolutely loved the sauerbraten TOSOK (Team One Shot One Kill) venice servers”
“Sauerbraten scratched that itch”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.