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GZDoom

Classic first-person-shooter engine for all classical Id games 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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License: GPL-3.0-only Metadata: CC0-1.0

Frameworks: SDL2

AppStream Metadata URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flathub/org.zdoom.GZDoom/master/org.zdoom.GZDoom.appdata.xml