Hey, c/selfhosted! Thanks to all who participated in my recent ‘2026 Self-Host User Survey’. This community contributed a bunch to this year’s increase in respondents (+52%), and I’m incredibly grateful for the support.
The results are visualized as usual via Chart.js. Happy to talk through any of the results or provide more details where things might not be clear.
New this year is a section on AI usage, a Linux distribution question, and the ability to overlay prior year responses on the charts for easier year-over-year comparisons.
Thanks again!
Tried Sauerbraten? Warfork? Red Eclipse 2?
I really liked I am your Beast but I don’t think that’s multiplayer.
Yes, no, and I can only seem to find evidence of a first Red Eclipse, which I also haven’t played.
But I’m also not looking for something that’s just like Quake and Unreal Tournament. I have Quake and Unreal Tournament. There are all kinds of ways to spruce up a shooter with different mechanics and themes, but a lot of these games that still retain these features are intentionally throwbacks to the very familiar. I did pick up Angels Fall First this year, which has some ideas of its own, but for what I’m getting out of it, I’d probably choose to play Star Wars Battlefront II (2005, the good one that can be self-hosted) 99 times out of 100 and have a similar or better experience.
I miss the era of approximately Half-Life to Titanfall 2, where new shooters were coming out all the time, and they’d have a campaign, maybe co-op, and usually a competitive multiplayer alongside them. You’d end up with stuff like Crysis suit powers that make the standard deathmatch in Crysis Wars feel wholly unique, because they came up with a full campaign of use cases for how you might use those powers.
Heh. You like the good shit.
Played Geist?
It’s GameCube (so you’ll have to emulate it) but it’s 4 player. Dolphin might even let you play it online.
You can find in the dwelling of mr Vimm.
I have not. Reviews weren’t stellar for it at the time, so it was hard to justify $50 for it when I was like 13 years old, but I’ve got a friend with a copy, so maybe I’ll ask him to break it out next time I visit. We already break out 007: Agent Under Fire every now and then, which probably is my favorite multiplayer shooter.
It’s uneven but it’s good. Same vibes as OG Half Life. I won’t spoil it.
Agent under fire. A man of culture.
And here I am playing Hulk Ultimate Destruction and SMS like it’s 2005 all over again.
No school like old school. 🤜