Team Fortress
Shares rank 6 of 8 game mods by recommenders
Influential Quake mod that set the bar for later team shooters, with players logging many hours and servers you can simply run.
Influential Quake mod that set the bar for later team shooters, with players logging many hours and servers you can simply run.
5 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 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.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
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
Server binaries you can run
“everything from Quake to Team Fortress to Minecraft shipped server binaries you can just run”
Comment from 30 May 2026 in “The California State Assembly Has Passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'” Many hours of play
“I spent so many hours playing TF/MegaTF”
Comment from 24 Jun 2026 in “John Carmack on the mistakes around Quake that ruined id software” Set the bar for later games
“TF set the bar for so much to come”
Comment from 7 Aug 2026 in “Quake – 30th Anniversary Update” Beauty grows on you
“I grew to appreciate the beauty”
Comment from 24 Jun 2026 in “John Carmack on the mistakes around Quake that ruined id software”
Other game mods people recommend
The four most recommended other game mods, 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 Brutalist Jam III | 12 | 2 | 86% | 5 | — | Approved |
| GregTech: New Horizons | 11 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | Approved |
| Arcane Dimensions (Quake mod) | 8 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
| Tamriel Rebuilt | 7 | 0 | 100% | 3 | — | — |
| Team FortressThis page | 5 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
4 of the 5 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“TF set the bar for so much to come”
“I spent so many hours playing TF/MegaTF”
“I grew to appreciate the beauty”
“everything from Quake to Team Fortress to Minecraft shipped server binaries you can just run”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.