GZDoom

GZDoom is a classic first-person shooter engine for all classic Id games. A free and open source game

Review

GZDoom is a source port that supports modern hardware and operating systems, as well as offering a wide range of user options. It runs on Windows, Linux and OS X and adds new features not found in games originally released by id Software.

Notable features:

• 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;
• Many more all-new editing features such as:
  • Colored lighting.
  • 3D floors.
  • Portals.
  • Advanced polyobjects free from the restrictions of their original implementation in Hexen.
  • Custom monsters, weapons, items, player classes, and other entities.
  • High resolution textures and sprites.
  • Translucency (regular and additive).
  • Many, many extensions to ACS that were not present in Hexen.
  • More music formats: Ogg Vorbis, MOD, XM, IT, S3M, MIDI, and MP3 as well as old-fashioned MUS all work.
  • More sound formats: FLAC and WAVE can both be used for sound effects.
  • More texture formats: PNG and JPEG are both useable for artwork.
• 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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Installation

Install Game via Deb package

Download deb package

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Install Game via RPM package

Download RPM package

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Install Game via Flatpak package

flatpak install flathub org.zdoom.GZDoom

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Install Game via Portable package on Windows

Download Portable package

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Install Game via .App package for macOS

Download .App package

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Game Information