Is Wolfenstein 3D on Steam?

No. Wolfenstein 3D is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.

What platforms is Wolfenstein 3D on?

Wolfenstein 3D is available on Atari Jaguar, MS-DOS, Super NES, Macintosh, 3DO, Game Boy Advance.

When did Wolfenstein 3D release?

Wolfenstein 3D was first released on November 21, 1994.

Wolfenstein 3D

Nov 21, 1994ShooterAtari JaguarMS-DOSSuper NESMacintosh3DO

Wolfenstein 3D — frequently asked questions

Is Wolfenstein 3D on Steam?: No. Wolfenstein 3D is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
What platforms is Wolfenstein 3D on?: Wolfenstein 3D is available on Atari Jaguar, MS-DOS, Super NES, Macintosh, 3DO, Game Boy Advance.
When did Wolfenstein 3D release?: Wolfenstein 3D was first released on November 21, 1994.

About Wolfenstein 3D

The Atari Jaguar port of Wolfenstein 3D. It Is based on the SNES port, but with graphical enhancements and no censorship.

Summary via IGDB.

Wolfenstein 3D on Wikipedia

Wolfenstein 3D is a 1992 first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by Apogee Software and FormGen for MS-DOS. It was inspired by the 1981 Muse Software video game Castle Wolfenstein, and is the third installment in the Wolfenstein series. In Wolfenstein 3D, the player assumes the role of Allied spy William "B.J." Blazkowicz during World War II as he escapes from the Nazi German prison Castle Wolfenstein and carries out a series of crucial missions against the Nazis. The player traverses each of the game's levels to find an elevator to the next level or kill a final boss, fighting Nazi soldiers, dogs, and other enemies with a knife and a variety of guns.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

Game details

Platforms: Atari Jaguar, MS-DOS, Super NES, Macintosh, 3DO, Game Boy Advance
Developer: id Software
Publisher: Atari Corporation
Game modes: Single player
Themes: Action
Series: Wolfenstein

Details via IGDB.

Every version compared

Prices, contemporary reception and the studio credited for each release

Platform	Year	Loose	Complete	Sealed	Period reviews
Atari Jaguar	1994	$70	$118	$305	9/10, 8/10, 7/10, 8/10

Also released on: MS-DOS · Super NES · Macintosh · 3DO · Game Boy Advance. We haven’t priced or authenticated those versions yet.

Collector value & authenticity

Atari Jaguar · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-07-24

Loose

$70

Complete

$118

Sealed

$305

Region: NA+EU
Released: 1994
Authenticity: Low

Never re-released — the original cartridge is the only way to playLow counterfeit risk

Atari Jaguar prices, all games & how to spot a fake

Not a port — a remix, and for years the best-looking version of Wolfenstein 3D in existence.

id rebuilt the game for Jaguar with substantially higher-resolution textures and sprites — dramatic enough that modders later ripped art out of the Jaguar version to use elsewhere. Thirty levels instead of the PC's sixty, remixed rather than copied, with bosses from both Wolfenstein and Spear of Destiny and two new weapons: a flamethrower and a rocket launcher. The audio is a pleasing inversion — Bobby Prince's score was rearranged for the Jerry chip with richer samples, so the Jaguar's Wolfenstein has full in-game music while its Doom has none.

Historically, this was id's dry run: the team wanted to know whether the hardware could handle Doom, and this is where they found out. It sold just below Doom's 33,102 as of April 1995 — a strong performer by platform standards.

How it was made

id Software developed the Atari Jaguar version. Credited: directed by Tom Hall; art by Adrian Carmack.

What the press said at the time

Famitsu

#270, February 18, 1994

9/10, 8/10, 7/10, 8/10

Cartridge & preservation record

Cartridge ROM capacity 16 megabit (2 MB), measured from the preserved cartridge image.

Catalogue part number J9028

Cartridge data from the No-Intro preservation database (metadata only — names, sizes and checksums, no game data).

How the Atari Jaguar version differs

The Jaguar version was converted by John Carmack from the Super NES port's source code.

Electronic Gaming Monthly rated it about level with the Super NES version — graphics and audio superior to every other version, but the faster player movement made it less fun to play.

GamePro called it the best version to date and better than the original, crediting the Jaguar's graphics and sound. Next Generation was cooler, calling it good but behind newer games.

Also on other platforms

MS-DOS · Super NES · Macintosh · 3DO · Game Boy Advance

Super NES. Imagineer bought the rights and paid id Software a $100,000 advance for the conversion. The original programmer made no progress, so id taught themselves SNES development in three weeks and built it themselves by March 1993. This is the version the Jaguar port was derived from.
Mega Drive / Genesis. Imagineer had a port in development for a September 1994 release. It was cancelled over technical problems and never shipped.
Macintosh. The 1994 Classic Mac OS release came in three separate products: The First Encounter as shareware, The Second Encounter with 30 exclusive levels, and The Third Encounter carrying all 60 MS-DOS levels.
MS-DOS. The original. Carmack later claimed the Jaguar conversion carried four times the detail of this version.

Worth knowing

John Carmack ported it to the Jaguar himself, on a whim. Carmack took the finished Super Nintendo source code and, unprompted, converted it to run on the Jaguar — a side project, not a commission. Atari approved the result for publication, and he then spent three further weeks on it with Dave Taylor, afterwards claiming the Jaguar version carried four times the detail of the MS-DOS original. A Mega Drive port was under way at Imagineer for a September 1994 release and was cancelled over technical problems, so the machine that ended up with the best-looking Wolfenstein got it because one programmer felt like trying. A Mega Drive port by Imagineer was under way for a September 1994 release and was cancelled over technical problems.

Before you buy

Common, inexpensive, frequently bundled — no counterfeit concern. Sources disagree on the exact 1994 release month; "1994" is the defensible catalog entry. Buy it for the flamethrower and the art.

Sales figures from an internal Atari document (through April 1, 1995), surfaced by The Land of Obscusion — The Land of Obscusion

Authenticity & condition — Atari Jaguar

Specific to the format this title shipped in

Buying a Jaguar cartridge

Cartridges are the durable half of this library — the risk is provenance, not decay. The platform has an active post-commercial scene, so the question is usually which era a cartridge is from rather than whether it still works.

Ask for a photo of the label edge and the cartridge back. Reproductions are usually printed on adhesive photo stock and sit proud of the label recess.
Donor shells are the common trick: sanding marks on the back, or adhesive ghosting where an older label was lifted, are the strongest signals.
Cartridges are region-free on this platform, so a cheaper PAL copy plays on a North American console — a price difference is not evidence of a fake.