GZDoom
Game engine for Classic Doom Source
Description
GZDoom is a source port for the modern era, supporting current hardware and operating systems and sporting a vast array of user options. Make Doom your own again!
In addition to Doom, GZDoom supports Heretic, Hexen, Strife, Chex Quest, and fan-created games like Harmony and Hacx. Meet the entire idTech 1 family!
Experience mind-bending user-created mods, made possible by ZDoom's advanced mapping features and the new ZScript language. Or make a mod of your own!
- Can play all Doom engine games, including Ultimate Doom, Doom II, Heretic, Hexen, Strife, and more
- Supports all the editing features of Hexen. (ACS, hubs, new map format, etc.)
- Supports most of the Boom editing features
- Features complete translations of Doom, Heretic, Hexen, Strife and other games into over ten different languages with Unicode support for Latin, Cyrillic, and Hangul so far
- All Doom limits are gone
- Several softsynths for MUS and MIDI playback, including an OPL softsynth for an authentic “oldschool” flavor
- High resolutions
- Quake-style console and key bindings
- Crosshairs
- Free look (look up/down)
- Jumping, crouching, swimming, and flying
- Up to 8 player network games using UDP/IP, including team-based gameplay
- Support for the Bloodbath announcer from the classic Monolith game Blood
- Walk over/under monsters and other things
Commercial data files are required to run the supported games. For more info about all supported games and their data files, see: Help -> List of supported games.
With Flatpak, all file-access is restricted to ~/.var/app/org.zdoom.GZDoom/.config/gzdoom for privacy reasons. You'll have to manually place your IWADs and PWADS there, or you should use an application like Flatseal to give GZDoom additional permissions.
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Rating
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Project status: released
This project has been developed so far, that its authors felt confident enough to create a release.
The project repository was created on 2013-06-23.
The last known commit happened on 2025-01-11.
Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2025-01-13
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Licensing and technical details
License: GPL-3.0-only Metadata: CC0-1.0
Frameworks: SDL2
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