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GtkRadiant

Level editor for ID Tech based games including Quake series.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS and Linux
  • Open source

Overview

GtkRadiant is a game engine, available on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “GtkRadiant: The open source, cross platform level editor for id Tech games.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

GtkRadiant is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-2.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • Commercial use allowed

Weaknesses

  • Few recent updates

About

GtkRadiant is the official level design toolchain for games powered by id Tech engines from id Software, and is maintained by a community of volunteers. GtkRadiant is powered by the GTK+ Project and released under a GPL license.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) —
  • Last technical check: 9 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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