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!
Time Tripper is a WAD developed by em essex. The game features a custom protagonist, Doomelph, who must defeat many of DOOM's monsters alongside new ones and traverse spacetime.
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.
This a gzdoom mod that contains all of the weapons and items from Half-Life and Half-Life: Opposing-Force, also includes some extra sutff from other mods to fill the item holes. With a focus on fast-paced combat and visual fidelity, Lambda transforms Doom into a hybrid sci-fi shooter with classic mechanics and upgraded graphics.
Doom: The Golden Souls 2 is the sequel of the groundbreaking mario styled hub-based mod, this time you'll travel through levels with a world map, unlocking new paths by reaching secret exits or by collecting big coins. You must retrieve 7 Golden Souls stolen by the Cyberdemon's minions in order to save the world... once again! Featuring improved platforming mechanics, weapons, levels, Golden Souls 2 is an experience any Doom fan should try!
Originally designed for ResistJam, and then Infinity Jam after that fell apart, Super Dude-Shooter is a single-player one-level tech demo of platformers on the GZDGPL engine, using Freedoom as a base. There's also the start of a poignant story of unfair separation between a robot and his true love, and his rising up to resist against the bourgeois that's forced him into action, but we mostly cut it to make room for more dudes to shoot.
Sonic: Lock & Load is a hyper-fast stylish action first-person shooter based on the Sonic the Hedgehog series of games and built on GZDoom. It's heavily inspired by the high-speed platforming of Sonic Robo Blast 2, the heavily movement-based FPS gameplay of ULTRAKILL and the stylish action of Devil May Cry.
Insanity's Requiem is a Doom gameplay mod based around magazine-based weapon reloading and an expanded enemy roster.
In this First Person Shooter, take on a dangerous mission in infiltration and battling Autonomous Drones. Will you uncover the conspiracy?
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.
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!
Ghost Recon meets Ghosts & Goblins. In Doom. A gameplay mod that: Slows the player down to more anatomically plausible speeds; Adds and modifies weapons and adds numerous options to better emulate the behaviour of real-life counterparts; and Beefs up various monsters and items for verisimilitude and difficulty.
MetaDoom is a randomizer gameplay mod for GZDoom-based source ports that attempts to unite all Doom games from the Doom alpha builds to Doom 2016. It is developed by Kinsie.
dead.air is a single-level PK3 for Doom II that requires GZDoom source port to play. It was designed by Xaser Acheron. It was released in December 2016 and is the spiritual sequel to his map dead.wire. It received one of the 2017 Cacowards and reached second place in the Vine Mapping Contest 2016.
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...
Gholazon X is a goofy, over the top, 90s comics as fuck helper mod, ideal for huge maps/slaughterwads or folks who are still workin on their doom skills, and is compatible with most weaponsets, monster packs and mapsets.
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.
A weapons and gameplay modification for Doom 1 and 2, Combined_Arms offers more outlandish and unorthodox weaponry without going completely overkill.
Trench Foot is a brutal Warhammer 40k inspired grimdark trench warfare DOOM 2 Total conversion mod where a Templar rallies behind his troops as a rebellion threatens to return the land to its ancient aberrant rulers.