id Software
Founded in 1991
Status: active
Founders: John Carmack, John Romero, Tom Hall, Adrian Carmack
HQ: Mesquite, Texas
Acquired by ZeniMax Media (Bethesda Softworks' parent company) on 2009-06-24.
--- Trivia
Pronounced /ɪd/ (IPA), this is official, so it's nothing like I.D.
The all lowercase id is the correct and official format of the name, you may have seen it being used with varying kinds of capitalization but that's either to conform to English grammar (first letter of a sentence starts with capitalized letter) or aesthetic purposes.
It is known for Catacomb, Commander Keen, Dangerous Dave, Doom, Enemy Territory, Heretic and HeXen, Quake, Strogg, Wolfenstein
Releases per year
Gametypes frequency
Top platforms
MS-DOS | ![]() | 25 | |
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Windows | ![]() | 20 | |
Linux | ![]() | 16 | |
iOS | ![]() | 8 | |
X360 | ![]() | 5 | |
OS/2 | ![]() | 4 | |
PS3 | ![]() | 4 | |
Mac OS Classic | ![]() | 4 | |
Unix | ![]() | 4 | |
BeOS | ![]() | 3 | |
Xbox One | ![]() | 3 | |
PS4 | ![]() | 3 | |
Mac OS X | ![]() | 3 | |
Internet Only | ![]() | 2 | |
Zeebo | ![]() | 2 |

DOS 1995-10-30

WIN 2001-11-19

DOS 1992-05-05

DOS 1994-12-23

DOS 1993-12-10

DOS 1994-05-05

DOS 1996-06-22

WIN 2004-08-03

DOS 1995

WIN 2005-10-18

AGA 1998

WIN 2009-08-18
id Software best rated games
Doom | 1995 | ps1 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Doom II | 1994 | dos | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
DOOM | 1993 | dos | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
The Ultimate Doom | 1995 | dos | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Quake II | 1997 | win | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Quake | 1997 | win | ![]() | ![]() | |
Doom II | 1998 | aga | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Wolfenstein 3D | 1992 | dos | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Wolfenstein | 2009 | win | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Quake III: Arena | 1999 | win | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
id Software worst games
Final Doom | 1996 | dos | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Heretic | 1994 | dos | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Doom | 1994 | snes | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Quake 4 | 2005 | win | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Hexen | 1995 | dos | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |