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Classic EverQuest recreation circa late 1990s / early Velious.
GenreRPG
FeaturesOnline Multiplayer
CommunityPlayBound Verifiedvp99files-v61
Server: Project Quarm
Community EverQuest era with curated progression.
RPG · 1999
That One Thing
Sitting in the pitch-black Oasis of Marr at 2 AM, hearing someone scream 'TRAIN TO ZONE!' and frantically sprinting for the boundary line.
Project Quarm is EverQuest for people who want the old world but have one character's worth of time. It is a fan-run, free emulated server built around one rule: one box. Each player runs one character, with no army of alternate accounts following them around, which pushes everybody back toward the thing the game was always about: finding a group.
The server progresses through the eras in order, from classic through Kunark, Velious and Luclin, with the 2002 Planes of Power expansion as the planned final stop. So your character can grow with the world instead of arriving after everything is finished. Check the community guide to see where it currently stands, since the timeline moves along.
It is not a pure museum piece. The team has added shared banks, automatic corpse dragging and chat channels, and some players feel it has moved toward being a custom server. In practice, those changes remove old annoyances while keeping the slow, social rhythm intact, though purists may prefer Project 1999, listed here too. Quarm suits anyone who wants the later classic expansions and fair competition for camps. It draws on the TAKProject and Al'Kabor codebases and is free and open source.
A well-run classic server for people who want old-school EverQuest.
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Minimum Requirements
Windows 10 · Dual-core CPU · 4 GB RAM · DirectX 9/11 GPU · ~4 GB free for client
Recommended Requirements
Windows 10/11 · Quad-core · 8 GB RAM · Dedicated GPU · SSD
Installed and played end to end by the PlayBound team.
Auto-installs the public TAKP v2.2 zip; Quarm patches and accounts remain on Quarm/TAKP official channels.
Project Quarm uses the Al`Kabor Project (TAKP) account and login systems. Your game login is created under Game Accounts on the TAKP forums after you register a forum account.
No. Create only one TAKP forum account. You may create multiple game accounts under that single forum account (up to the TAKP limits). Extra forum accounts can be deleted and lock you out of linked game accounts.
You likely only made a forum account. Open Game Accounts on the TAKP forums and create a Login Server Account, then use that game username/password in eqgame.exe.
No. After the base client installs you must extract the latest patch from Quarm Discord #server-files into the install folder, then log in with your TAKP game account.
Live Playing Now for Quarm uses the concurrent player count shown on the public EQEmulator server list for “Project Quarm” (not TAKP zone population). Numbers refresh periodically and can lag a few minutes.
Classic EverQuest recreation circa late 1990s / early Velious.
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