John Carmack, head of id Software, has revealed that the studio is already discussing the potential for the fifth installment of Quake.

“We went from the Quake 2 and the Quake 4 Strogg universe. We are at least tossing around the possibilities of going back to the bizarre, mixed up Cthulhu-ish Quake 1 world and rebooting that direction,” Carmack stated. “We think that would be a more interesting direction than doing more Strogg stuff after Quake 4. We certainly have strong factions internally that want to go do this. But we could do something pretty grand like that, that still tweaks the memory right in all of those ways, but is actually cohesive and plays with all of the strengths of the level we’re at right now.”

The next game due out from the id camp is Rage which has recently been delayed. Then it’s Doom 4, so could Quake 5 be on the horizon after that?