Recommended WADs
Here’s a curated list of the very best PWADs available, made by talented members of the DOOM community over the past 30 years or so that can be played using DOOM Retro.
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The 10×10 Project | lunchlunch |
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Abandon | Benjogami |
| Alien Bastards! | Various | |
| Ancient Aliens | Paul “skillsaw” DeBruyne | |
| Arceon | DMPhobos | |
| Arrival | Pavera | |
| Atmospheric Extinction | Kevin “Velvetic” Martins | |
| Attack On IO | Brian “Bri” Irving | |
| Avactor: End Of The Fifth Circle | Eradrop | |
| Axiom | Didy | |
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Back To Basics | Esa “Espi” Repo |
| Back To Saturn X E1: Get Out Of My Stations | Sarah “Esselfortium” Mancuso and others | |
| Back To Saturn X E2: Tower In The Fountain Of Sparks | Sarah “Esselfortium” Mancuso and others | |
| Back To Saturn X E3: Instructions to the Rusty Time Machine (Preview) | Sarah “Esselfortium” Mancuso and others | |
| Base Ganymede | Adam “Khorus” Woodmansey | |
| Bijou DOOM | Philnemba | |
| Biotech Is Godzilla | doomerboardskrew4lyfe | |
| Black Ops | VGA | |
| Bloodcore Base | Doom_Dude | |
| Bloodspeed | StormCatcher.77 and others | |
| Bloodstain | Pavel “Pipicz” Tvrzník | |
| Bloody Steel | Big Memka | |
| Bond Of Hatred | Chris Hansen | |
| BOOMER: Beyond Vanilla | Fernito | |
| Breach | Alun “Viggles” Bestor | |
| Brigandine | Alun “Viggles” Bestor | |
| The Brotherhood Of Ruin | Kristian Aro | |
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Candlemass | Obsidian |
| Cipher | Scotty | |
| The Cognition Engine | Snowy44 | |
| Crossbearer | Henry “HAK3180” Korver | |
| Crucified Dreams | Various | |
| The Cursed Hangar | Jonathan Dowland | |
| Cyb’s Freaky Colonoscopy | Big Ol’ Billy | |
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DBP37: AUGER;ZENITH | Doomer Boards |
| DBP39: Lunar Strain | Doomer Boards | |
| DBP47: Dreamcatcher Apparatus | Doomer Boards | |
| DBP49: Mausoleum Nefarium | Doomer Boards | |
| DBP50: Emerald City | Doomer Boards | |
| DBP60: Eldritch Voyage | Doomer Boards | |
| DBP61: Tempest Enterprise | Doomer Boards | |
| DBP65: Sanguine Holy Land | Doomer Boards | |
| DBP66: Lunar Strain | Doomer Boards | |
| Deathless | James Paddock | |
| Deep Breath | EduardoAndFriends | |
| Devil’s Grip | universal-quantifier | |
| Dimension Of The Boomed | Urthar | |
| Don’t Turn Your Back On The City | Suzanne “Trashbang” Will | |
| DOOM The Way id Did | Various | |
| DOOM 2 The Way id Did | Various | |
| DOOM 4 VANILLA | Noiser and others | |
| DOOM 64 For DOOM II: Respawned! | Various | |
| DOOM Zero | Christopher Golden | |
| Doomguy Gets A Puppy | Big Ol’ Billy | |
| Double Impact | RottKing and Ralphis | |
| Duality | AshtralFiend | |
| Dubai | Didy | |
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Emerald Ambush | Rook |
| End Point | Alexander “Eternal” S. | |
| Epic 2 | Alexander “Eternal” S. | |
| Eraser | Matt Eldrydge | |
| Escape From Slime City and HOTFIX93 | KWC3K | |
| Estranged | Foodles | |
| Eviternity | Dragonfly and others | |
| Eviternity II | Dragonfly and others | |
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Fallen Leaves | Brian “Bri” Irving |
| Finely Crafted Fetish Film | Zachary “Ribbiks” Stephens | |
| For Whom The Bell Tolls | Didy | |
| Forsaken Compound | Ivymagnapinna | |
| Foursite | Bauul | |
| Fuel Devourer | C4tnt and Archi | |
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Goetia 1 | Tib |
| Gravity | Alexander “Eternal” S. | |
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The High Resolution DOOM Sound Effects Pack | Perkristian |
| Hydrosphere | Brian “Bri” Irving | |
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Infection | exl |
| Infraworld - The Hatehammer | StormCatcher.77 | |
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Japanese Community Project | Tatsurd-Cacocaco and others |
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Khorus | Shadowman |
| Knee-Deep in Knee-Deep in ZDoom | Sarah “Esselfortium” Mancuso | |
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Lilywhite Lilith | Various |
| Liminal DOOM 2 | dashlet | |
| Literalism | Various | |
| Lost Civilization | Jaakko “Jaska” Impola | |
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Machete | A2Rob |
| Maskim Xul | Obsidian | |
| Mayan Reynolds | Egg Boy | |
| Memento Mori II | Denis and Thomas Möller | |
| Miasma | Tourniquet | |
| Monster Hunter Ltd (Part I) | Didy | |
| Monster Hunter Ltd (Part II) | Didy | |
| Moonlit District | Egg Boy | |
| Morituri Te Salutant | EduardoAndFriends | |
| Mutabor | Tourniquet | |
| Mutiny | 40oz and others | |
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Nex Credo | Jay X Townsend |
| Novis | jdagenet | |
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Occult Secrets Of The Third Reich On Mars | Big Ol’ Billy and others |
| One Humanity | John Romero | |
| Ozonia | Deadwing | |
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Pact Of The Damned | Blue Phoenix |
| Pagodia | Egg Boy | |
| Pathogen | Crunchynut44 | |
| Phobos Mission Control1 | John Romero | |
| Pirate DOOM II | Darch | |
| Pumping Station | VisionThing | |
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Reconstruction/Decomposition | Da Werecat |
| REKKR | Matthew “Revae” Little | |
| REKKR: Sunken Land | Matthew “Revae” Little | |
| Remnant | Aurelius | |
| rf1024 | ’rf | |
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Scythe 2 | Erik Alm |
| Scythe X | Erik Alm | |
| Sepia | Petyan | |
| SIGIL | John Romero | |
| SIGIL II | John Romero | |
| Simulacrum | Alex “myolden” Dekker and muumi | |
| Skinnyman | Obsidian | |
| Smooth DOOM MBF21 | Alaux | |
| SMOOTHED | VGA | |
| Stardate 20X6 | Zachary “Ribbiks” Stephens | |
| Stardate 20X7 | Zachary “Ribbiks” Stephens | |
| Stone Flower | ivymagnapinna | |
| Sucker Punch | Rook | |
| Summer Of ’69 | Zachary “Ribbiks” Stephens and Daniel “Dannebubinga” Jakobsson |
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| Sunlust | Zachary “Ribbiks” Stephens and Daniel “Dannebubinga” Jakobsson |
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| Super Mayhem 17 | Marcaek | |
| Suspended In Dusk | Esa “Espi” Repo | |
| Swim With The Whales | Zachary “Ribbiks” Stephens | |
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Tangerine Nightmare | CFD Team |
| Tech Gone Bad1 | John Romero | |
| Tetanus | Egg Boy and others | |
| THT: Threnody | Chris Hansen and others | |
| TNT Revilution | Jaws in Space and others | |
| Traveling To The Moon | The_trigger | |
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UAC Ultra | 40oz and Super Jamie |
| Unhallowed | CyanoBlugron | |
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Valiant | Paul “skillsaw” DeBruyne |
| Vanguard | Paul “skillsaw” DeBruyne | |
| Vesper | Xaser Acheron | |
| Vicious Realms | Horus | |
| Vile Flesh | Gwyn Williams | |
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Way 2 Many Dead Guys | Urthar |
| Whispers Of Satan | Paul Corfiatis and Kristian Aro |
1The maps E1M4B: Phobos Mission Control and E1M8B: Tech Gone Bad by John Romero are included with DOOM Retro. They can be played by entering map E1M4B or map E1M8B in the console when DOOM.WAD has been loaded.
