Editing Quake (video game) (section)

===Single-player===
[[File:Quake gameplay.png|thumb|left|In-game screenshot, with the player armed with the Super Shotgun, a double-barreled shotgun]]

In ''Quake''{{'s}} single-player mode, players explore levels, facing monsters and finding secret areas before reaching an exit. Switches or keys open doors, and reaching the exit takes the player to the next level. Before accessing an episode, there is a set of three pathways with easy, medium, and hard skill levels. The fourth skill level, "Nightmare", was described by the game manual to be "so bad that the entry is hidden, so people won't wander in by accident".<ref>{{Cite book |title=Quake (game manual) |publisher=ID Software |year=1996 |page=3}}</ref>

''Quake''{{'s}} single-player campaign is organized into four individual episodes with seven to eight levels in each (including one secret level per episode, one of which is a "low gravity" level that challenges the player's abilities in a different way). If the player's character dies, they must restart at the beginning of that level. The game may be saved at any time in the PC versions and between levels in the console versions. Upon completing an episode, the player is returned to the hub "START" level, where another episode can be chosen. Each episode starts the player from scratch, without any previously collected items. Episode one (which formed the shareware or downloadable demo version of ''Quake'') has the most traditional layout with a [[Boss (video gaming)|boss]] in the last level. The ultimate objective at the end of each episode is to recover a magic rune. After all of the runes are collected, the floor of the hub level opens up to reveal an entrance to the "END" level which contains a final puzzle.