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!

Fight your way through this cartoony FPS with insane characters, intense level design, and verticality like never before! This fully-voice acted FPS will push you to new levels.

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.

Project Brutality is an expansion of the Brutal Doom gore-themed WAD for Zandronum and GZDoom (only engines with known support so far). It is a standalone mod based on Brutal Doom version v20b, and further continues its gameplay expansion and references to the Doom comic. This mod is compatible with Doom / The Ultimate Doom, Doom II, and Final Doom.

Somewhere in Napoleonic Sweden, explosives heiress Dinah Wyck awakens in a strange garden, with an equally strange robot maid insisting that she is sick and must go back to bed. Dinah has no memory of how she came to enter Castle Quarantine, nor why its bizarre inhabitants are so hostile toward her. And somewhere in the distance she hears the voice of her father calling to her. Armed only with a cricket bat and a handful of cherry bombs, Dinah sets out on a quest to rescue her father and find a way out of Castle Quarantine...

An upcoming fan sequel to Ken Silverman's all time classic, Ken's Labyrinth, Powered by GZDoom.

Pirate Doom is a megawad and partial conversion for Doom II. It is heavily inspired by the Monkey Island series and features reskinned enemies, custom music and new weapons as well as new textures and 18 new maps. It was created by Arch, also known as Darch. The full version was released on the 4th September, 2013 and received one of the 20th Annual Cacowards, with the final update being on the 6th June, 2014.

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.

Hell-Forged is a Doom spin-off for Doom 2 and the reboot, and sort of a sequel, to Demon Eclipse's second episode.

Deluge: Onset is a total conversion mod demo for GZDoom containing six maps and many new gameplay elements like time magic, climbing, prop movement, adjustable AI and more. Players must use their agility, firepower and sorcery to survive against a hostile ecosystem of flesh monsters.

"A long long time ago... An ancient mansion full of beautiful paintings was discovered..." Explore magical new lands in Doom: The Golden Souls! The first game of the retro-inspired Doom mod saga! Find the Golden Souls hidden in magical paintings to unlock new areas in the hub and continue your adventure! Every painting is a different level with unique aesthetics and gimmicks! Stop the demons from obtaining the souls and save the world!

In 2017, an expansion pack to Skulldash, entitled Skulldash: Expanded Edition was released, allowing the mod to be played in GZDoom, and featuring an additional eighteen levels created by O'Sullivan and various mappers from across the Doom community. The mod is intended to be played using the OpenGL renderer, with the effects of the software renderer ranging from sub-optimal visuals to major graphical glitches on some maps.

Beer Drinkin' Terrorist Hunter is challenging, fast-paced, 2d shooter. Inspired by games like Wolfenstein 3d, Doom, and Duke Nukem. Fight your way to downtown by collecting and unleashing a full arsenal of 2d weapons. Visit places like the mall, downtown, and a factory. Fight on highways, in warehouses, and on rooftops. Shoot a variety of enemies including bosses.

Fallout: Bakersfield, the new fan creation from Alexander and Denis Berezin using Doom Total Conversion. A retro-inspired FPS using Doom Total Conversion, Fallout Bakersfield pulls from the classic Fallout aesthetic of Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 and carries with it the gunplay of Fallout 3 and Fallout 4, with a splash of original Doom.

"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!"

A dark and arid hellscape inspired by the likes of Metroid Prime and Dark Souls, Vomitoreum is an FPS Metroidvania set in an interconnected and nightmarish world. Explore a land that has been plagued with an eldritch infection, a horrible fog that blankets the world and turns it’s denizens into wretched mutants. Delve deep into the ruins of this plagued world and find a cure for this horrid blight. You are the Nephilem, a vessel born of cosmic ash and the churning souls trapped within graves. Created as a being able to survive the hellish environment and search for a way to make the fog recede, you will scour the lands in search of tools and weaponry that will be useful on your journey. The Nephilem’s end goal is to make the infection and the fog recede, destroy the horrible demons plaguing the land, and let life flourish once again.

Afterlands is a 10 Level Single-Player Hub which is a sequel to Cyrgoth's Revenge. While being Single-Player oriented, Afterlands can also be played in Co-op and Deathmatch modes, however due to the large map sizes, the latter is discouraged. Like in it's predecessors, there are numerous unmarked secrets throughout the span of the Hub, as well as two secret levels, one you can access early in the game, and another that is accessible towards the end of the WAD.

Temple of the Lizardmen 2 is a ten-level PWAD by Alando1, released in 2010. It received mention in the Cacowards feature that year as not quite a runner-up, but a recommended play as well-made and "really fun". The mod includes a complete set of replacement weapons and monsters, and a handful of new powerups. Dead marines with PDAs are also encountered. Difficulty settings have been renamed to Easy, Medium, Hard, and Hell Revealed. The author states that gameplay is meant to meld Doom with Unreal, although some resources are obviously copied from Doom-related titles, e.g. the Super Minotaur (Maulotaur), invulnerability ring (Ring of Invincibility), and Serpent Staff. According to its readme, Temple of the Lizardmen 2 is compatible with GZDoom versions 1.3.7 through 1.4.2.

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.

A Metroidvania Doom map featuring enemies from the Metroid series.

Quake 4 Lightning Fast Mod is a Doom mod for both single and multiplayer modes based on Quake 4

This is an atmospheric map set (45 levels) based on the works of H P Lovecraft, and inspired by a Doom clone I designed when I was a kid. Reunite with your dead son by traveling through your dreams and conquering four nightmarish realms: a shattered planet floating in aether, a dilapitated fortress of the future, the badlands of prehistoric earth, and the frozen Plateau of Leng. Now includes a fifth bonus episode, Out of the Aeons, set in the Underworld and the City of R’lyeh!