id Software

1990 / 1991 1991 / 1991 tot 10 1992 / 1991 tot 12 1993 / 1991 tot 14 1994 / 1991 tot 29 1995 / 1991 tot 37 1996 / 1991 tot 43 1997 / 1991 tot 49 1998 / 1991 tot 54 1999 / 1991 tot 59 2000 / 1991 tot 61 2001 / 1991 tot 62 2002 / 1991 tot 64 2004 / 1991 tot 66 2005 / 1991 tot 73 2006 / 1991 tot 74 2007 / 1991 tot 77 2008 / 1991 tot 81 2009 / 1991 tot 92 2010 / 1991 tot 95 2011 / 1991 tot 99 2012 / 1991 tot 103 2014 / 1991 tot 106 2015 / 1991 tot 107 2016 / 1991 tot 110 2017 / 1991 tot 111 2019 / 1991 tot 114 2020 / 1991 tot 120
Founded in 1991 last activity in 2020
Status: active
Country: USA


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

19904
199110
19922
19932
199415
19958
19966
19976
19985
19995
20002
20011
20022
20042
20057
20061
20073
20084
200911
20103
20114
20124
20143
20151
20163
20171
20193
20206
124 video games with valid date were considered (92.5%)

Overall rankings

4
43
10
1
0

Common gametypes

shooter76%action/reflex10%platformer7%other5%

Top platforms

MS-DOS 26
Windows 21
Linux 17
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
Zeebo 2
Jaguar 2