List Of Id Software Games
The company has focused primarily on further computer and mobile games in the Doom and Quake series since 1993, with the addition of the Rage series: Rage: Mutant Bash TV (2010), Rage (2011), and Rage 2 (2019). Additionally, it co-developed a set of mobile phone games with Fountainhead Entertainment in 2005–2009, including Orcs & Elves (2006), Orcs & Elves II (2007), and Wolfenstein RPG (2008). It has released eight Doom games and five Quake titles in total. These games have been published through retail primarily by Activision, EA Mobile, and Bethesda Softworks. Additionally, id published three games in the Heretic series by Raven Software in 1994–1997, before ceasing its publishing operations. In 2009, id was purchased by ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda. The company's latest release is the first-person shooter Quake Champions (2022).
Games
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Original release date: December 14, 1990 |
Release years by system: 1990 – MS-DOS |
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Original release date: 1991 |
Release years by system: 1991 – MS-DOS |
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Original release date: April 1991 |
Release years by system: 1991 – MS-DOS |
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Original release date: 1991 |
Release years by system: 1991 – MS-DOS 2008 – Mobile phones |
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Original release date: 1991 |
Release years by system: 1991 – MS-DOS |
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Original release date: 1991 |
Release years by system: 1991 – MS-DOS 2013 – Android 2015 – Windows, Linux 2016 – macOS 2019 – Nintendo Switch |
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Rescue Rover 2 Original release date: 1991 |
Release years by system: 1991 – MS-DOS |
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Original release date: November 1991 |
Release years by system: 1991 – MS-DOS |
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Original release date: December 15, 1991 |
Release years by system: 1991 – MS-DOS |
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Original release date: December 1991 |
Release years by system: 1991 – MS-DOS |
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Original release date: May 5, 1992 |
Release years by system: 1992 – MS-DOS 1994 – Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Mac OS, Atari Jaguar, Acorn Archimedes 1995 – 3DO 1998 – Apple IIGS, PC-98 2002 – Game Boy Advance 2009 – Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, iOS 2012 – Web browsers |
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Original release date: 1992 |
Release years by system: 1992 – MS-DOS |
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Original release date: December 10, 1993 |
Release years by system: 1993 – MS-DOS, AmigaOS 1994 – 32X, Atari Jaguar, Mac OS 1995 – Super Nintendo Entertainment System, PlayStation, Windows 1996 – 3DO 1997 – Sega Saturn 2001 – Game Boy Advance 2006 – Xbox 360 2009 – iOS 2012 – PlayStation 3 2019 – Nintendo Switch |
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Original release date: October 10, 1994 |
Release years by system: 1994 – MS-DOS, Mac OS 1995 – PlayStation 2002 – Game Boy Advance 2003 – Tapwave Zodiac 2005 – Xbox 2010 – Xbox 360 2012 – PlayStation 3 |
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Original release date: June 22, 1996 |
Release years by system: 1996 – MS-DOS 1997 – Mac OS, Sega Saturn 1998 – Nintendo 64, AmigaOS 1999 – Linux 2005 – Mobile phones |
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Original release date: December 9, 1997 |
Release years by system: 1997 – Windows 1999 – Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Linux, macOS 2005 – Xbox 360 |
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Original release date: December 5, 1999 |
Release years by system: 1999 – Windows, Linux, macOS 2000 – Dreamcast 2001 – PlayStation 2 2010 – Xbox 360 |
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Original release date: August 3, 2004 |
Release years by system: 2004 – Windows, Linux 2005 – macOS, Xbox 2012 – PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 (BFG Edition) 2015 – Android (BFG Edition) |
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Original release date: September 19, 2005 |
Release years by system: 2005 – Mobile phones |
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Original release date: May 2006 |
Release years by system: 2006 – Mobile phones 2007 – Nintendo DS |
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Orcs & Elves II Original release date: December 3, 2007 |
Release years by system: 2007 – Mobile phones |
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Original release date: Q3 2008 |
Release years by system: 2008 – Mobile phones 2009 – iOS |
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Original release date: November 23, 2009 |
Release years by system: 2009 – Mobile phones, BlackBerry 2010 – iOS, Windows Mobile |
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Original release date: August 6, 2010 |
Release years by system: 2010 – PC |
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Original release date: November 18, 2010 |
Release years by system: 2010 – iOS |
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Original release date: October 4, 2011 |
Release years by system: 2011 – Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 2012 – macOS |
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Original release date: May 13, 2016 |
Release years by system: 2016 – Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One 2017 – Nintendo Switch |
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Original release date: December 1, 2017 |
Release years by system: 2017 – Windows, PlayStation 4 |
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Original release date: May 14, 2019 |
Release years by system: 2019 – Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One |
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Original release date: March 20, 2020 |
Release years by system: 2020 – Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch 2021 – PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S |
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Original release date: August 18, 2022 |
Release years by system: 2022 – Windows |
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Proposed release date: 2025 |
Proposed system release: 2025 – Windows, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S |
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Published games
Shortly after the release of its sole self-published game, Doom, in 1993, id briefly moved into publishing works by other developers. The only titles it published were a trilogy of games by Raven Software, which use modified versions of game engines developed by id and featured id employees as producers. A fourth game, Strife, was briefly under development by Cygnus Studios and was to be published by id; after a few months it was cancelled. It was later finished by Rogue Entertainment and published by Velocity in 1996.
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Original release date: December 23, 1994 |
Release years by system: 1994 – MS-DOS 1999 – Mac OS |
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Original release date: October 30, 1995 |
Release years by system: 1995 – MS-DOS 1997 – Mac OS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64 |
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Original release date: August 31, 1997 |
Release years by system: 1997 – Windows 2002 – macOS |
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Notes
- ^ As Ideas from the Deep developed Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons while still employees of Softdisk using Softdisk computers, after id Software was founded they agreed to develop nine games for the company. One, ScubaVenture: The Search for Pirate's Treasure, was developed on their behalf by Apogee Software instead.
- ^ Unofficial ports of Doom and Doom II to Linux were released by id programmer Dave Taylor in 1994; they were hosted by id but not supported or made official.
- ^ An unofficial port of Quake to Linux was released by former id programmer Dave Taylor in 1996.
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