Popular games built on game engine GZDoom
When the best friend becomes an enemy, and the main villain becomes you yourself and blood flows like a river, someone will definitely have to answer the main question - Who is behind the awakening of ancient evil and is there still a chance for humanity?
My House is a mod for Doom II designed and released by Veddge as a tribute, reportedly to have been unearthed from an old floppy disk belonging to his deceased long-time friend Tom who started work in 1999 with some UDMF features added by Veddge.
Hands of Necromancy is a Dark Fantasy First Person Shooter and metroidvania game, similar to Heretic, made with the GZDoom engine. Find your weapons, fight evil forces, use the special abilities of special transformations to find your path! Show how powerful you are as a Necromancer!
Nostalgia is a 32-level megawad for limit-removing source ports. It was released by Alex Decker (myolden) in August 2022 and combines vanilla-style aesthetics with modern map design philosophies. Most maps are smallish in size, with a focus on easy-to-medium difficulty and fewer than 100 monsters. While level geometry and texturing is intentionally kept simple, the wad contains many instances of environmental storytelling as well as occasional doomcute detailing. Each level in the wad is named after a metal song that came out prior to 2000. The midi soundtrack is assembled from various sources from inside and outside the Doom community, containing no bespoke tracks.
Step into the shoes of former special agent turned real estate agent Blake Kincaid, dragged back into the game to save a friend. Fight your way through office buildings in downtown Washington D.C., October 1998, and uncover what happened over the course of one long night.
Mohrta is a nonlinear FPS game blending action, exploration, and light dungeon crawling. Explore a vast selection of unique environments, slay an enormous cast of otherworldly creatures, and upgrade your arsenal of multifaceted weapons.
Hardstrike: The Fall is a first-person shooter that puts you on the front lines of a growing global crisis. Set in a world similar to our own, extremist violence is surging, and you're tasked with stopping it.
"War. War never changes. And neither does- THE DOOM DWELLER- you were chosen by THE OVERSEER to enter VAULT 666 and locate THE WATER CHIP. If you fail, your home, your friends, and your PET BUNNY will perish. Traveling the Wasteland, your investigations lead you to a CAVE ENTRANCE. But what's this? No vault dwellers in sight, but more mutants than you can shake a boomstick at! It stinks like rotten meat! So, pump that POWER FIST, rev that RIPPER, and unload your 10MM, right into the face of HELL! Welcome to VAULT 666! Death in the Vault is about to change!"
ZBloody Hell is a standalone game made for the GZDoom engine, aiming to recreate the elements of the game Blood (1997), from monsters and weapons, to levels and atmosphere, while also providing a gameplay addon and / or a level pack that is compatible with the other Doom 2 mods out there, letting you mix different mods with the fantastic Blood levels or the unique arsenal of weapons and new enemies of Blood. Get to ZBloody Hell and Start kicking some Zombie heads today.
Eviternity is a 32-level megawad for MBF-compatible source ports, created by Joshua O'Sullivan (Dragonfly). It was released on 10 December, 2018, the 25th anniversary of Doom's release, alongside the OTEX texture pack by Ola Björling (ukiro), which the WAD uses exclusively.
You are Sanya K. Waffles, SSA of the recently de-funded Boredomdai Civil Defence. Your friends are captured by terrorists who storm a local TV station. You just happen to be the only cop in the area not in on the terrorists' plan. You decide to cut them down, and quickly you find they're not your usual mooks. With deranged dolphin demons, facsimilies of cartoon characters and other denizens helping this seige, you know this isn't a typical coup d'etat. You were supposed to be on vacation. Now you're gonna make them pay. Plus the government has a lot to answer for in the end, but that's not your place. Your place: make the fuckers who did this attack pay.
The Pink Valley is a Doom action-horror mod, a personal project by Vamvilodon that's been in development for around 3 years, where you take control as a disturbed man taking revenge on his small Chilean town.
Stronghold: On the Edge of Chaos is a Doom megawad created by a team of designers at DRD Team and Realm 667, lead by Daniel Gimmer (Tormentor667). It requires GZDoom or Skulltag to run and supports both singleplayer and multiplayer. The project was released in November of 2010.
Ashes Blackwater is an addon for Ashes: Afterglow and Ashes: Hard Reset. Though it features no new maps, Blackwater offers a different spin on 6 maps from Afterglow and Hard Reset which now form a cohesive hub structure. It features an arsenal comprised mostly of Afterglow guns with two returning weapons from Hard Reset and a certain weapon from Dead Man Walking, though behaving slightly differently and with its very own new upgrade path.
Antaresian Reliquary is a compilation of levels, designed for various community projects for the last 4 years. Seven levels with different themes and limitations were selected for this compilation, and the wad is designed as boom-compatible with some custom gameplay elements, such as new enemies and weapons. It is recommended to read the details about the gameplay changes, before you start playing this wad.
Demon Eclipse was a Doom II mod for GZDoom by Amuscaria (formerly Eriance). Originally intended to be told through the eyes of another marine escaping the invasion on Earth in during Doom II, Demon Eclipse went through multiple iterations but was ultimately dropped due to real-life and the loss of motivation for the project by the author. The project had succumbed to multiple rounds of scope-bloat and become too much to manage. The first episode of first dropped from the mod, but was later made standalone by Blue Shadow. The intent was to focus and refine the second episodes 'hell-tech' theme in the "Hell-Forged Edition", but that also fell thru in 2014. In 2017, Amuscaria had revive the project in a complete reboot of the second episode by the name of Hell-Forged, with a much narrower focus around the Gothic hell-tech theme.
Grab your bandolier and saddle up for Wanted 3D, a GZDoom-powered Spaghetti Western FPS! It's time to settle the score with your former gang and reclaim what is rightfully yours. Are you ready for the wildest showdown the Wild West has to offer?
Abysm: Dawn of Innocence is an action adventure GZDoom TC for Doom2 inspired by medieval themed games such as Diablo, Dark Souls, and Hexen. the mod features A Hub level progression where you complete quests while slaughtering demons along the way with various Medieval weapons and Spells.
DISDAIN is a fast-paced, visceral retro-styled first person shooter, inspired by the legendary FPS games of yesteryear.
Castlevania : Simon's Destiny is a standalone non-profit GZDOOM based fan game born as a love letter to this legendary franchise. This game aims to reinvent the very first NES title of the franchise with a nostalgic yet brand new first person gameplay. All the levels from the classic NES era game have been reimagined like never before, experience the tale of Simon's fight against Dracula and his army of the night!
Temple of the Lizardmen 3 is a 32 map wad and the third entry of the Temple of the Lizardmen series of Doom wads known for borrowing elements from the Unreal games
Lycanthorn II: Rain of Beasts is a 3d homage to retro classics. Explore an open world and use different characters to explore dungeons and lands full of demons and beasts from legend. With First Person melee combat, you'll dash, dodge and dice around your enemies! Not a fan of melee? Try out the other characters that each have a variety of attacks.
You wake up and find yourself in the midst of a psychotic infestation, and gotta find a way out and avoid being chewed up into a red paste...
NeoCore is an enemy and weapon replacement mod with its feet deep in the sci-fi theme. Instead of (just) zombies and demons, you'll be fighting cybernetic troops with purple blood and Mutants that spew green and yellow gore, Realm 667 monsters that have been edited to paint the walls with various saturated blood colors, all the while wielding powerful- "alternatively" colored guns with absurd names a la 90s game fashion like UT99