Deathmatch Classic was a mod for Half-Life created by Valve software alongside others like Team Fortress Classic and Day of Defeat. Unfortunately it was never as popular as some of the others and quietly faded back into obscurity.

DMC is essentially a remake of the multiplayer component of Quake 1 using Half-Life's particular GoldSrc engine. Including remade versions of Quake 1's various weapons, such as the nailgun, super shotgun and rocket launcher. It uses a lot of Half-life's assets like multiplayer models, textures and sprites. And at the same time attempts to mimic Quake's physics. Allowing players to also bunnyhop and strafejump. They also remade several of Quake 1's deathmatch maps and included them with the game.

Now all of this was great. Although Deathmatch Classic released at around the same time as Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament. As a result the community didn't really gravitate towards it as much as Valve would have liked, seeing it as a little outdated and more of a novelty.

Playing it today you can see some general upsides to Deathmatch Classic. It uses Steam's server browser and has mods for bots. So it is rather easy to setup a game of classic Quake deathmatch with someone online. But the playerbase is extinct, and as a result it's just another relic in Valve's catalogue

Very old but fun Deathmatch game. Not many players in 2016, get some friends to play with.

Wow, there are so many people in these servers that I couldn't get in! So many people to play with! There are like, 10000 servers! Great community, puts Quake to shame.

Buy this game and join the community of one

This game is great! It is fast paced and extremely addicting. Sad thing is, nobody plays.

Best playerbase I have ever met. Everybody is so nice and never flames me. Good quailty servers that are always up. Pls buy this game. I want to play with somebody.

Good game to write creepypasta about, because you can make one about someone actually joining your server.

Be polite, kill everyone you see -Classic

its a fun game with lots of wierd fat guys

It's Quake except you can be a robot.