Doomsday Engine AlternativesGame Emulators and other similar apps like Doomsday Engine

Doomsday Engine is described as 'Id Software's Doom pioneered the modern first-person shooter genre. Released in 1993, it was a quantum leap in game engine technology with fluid and — at the time — incredibly realistic 3D graphics' and is a Game Emulator in the gaming software category. There are nine alternatives to Doomsday Engine for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Doomsday Engine alternative is Crispy Doom, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Doomsday Engine are GZDoom, Chocolate Doom, DOOM Retro and Zandronum.

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  1. Crispy Doom icon
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    Crispy Doom is a source port developed by Fabian Greffrath forked from Chocolate Doom which provides a higher display resolution, removes the static limits of the Doom engine, and offers further optional visual, tactical and physical enhancements while remaining fully compatible...

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

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    • Crispy Doom is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Doomsday Engine.

    • Crispy Doom is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Doomsday Engine.

    • Crispy Doom is Free and Open SourceDoomsday Engine is also Free and Open Source
  2. GZDoom icon
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    ZDoom is a family of enhanced ports of the Doom engine for running on modern operating systems. It runs on Windows, Linux, and OS X, and adds new features not found in the games as originally published by id Software.

    18 GZDoom alternatives

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    GZDoom Features

    1.   Game Series
    2.  Single player
    3.  Moddable
    4.  Works Offline

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    1998 saw the public release of the Doom source code by its original authors, id Software. Since then, a large number of Doom "source ports" have been created by programmers, who have extended the code, adding new features and removing some of the limitations of DOS...

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    • FreeOpen Source

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    Country of Origin

    • International

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Haiku
    • AmigaOS

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  4. DOOM Retro icon
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    DOOM Retro is the classic, refined DOOM source port for Windows PC. It represents how I like my DOOM to be today, in all its dark and gritty, unapologetically pixelated glory. I have strived to craft a unique and cohesive set of compelling features, while continuing to uphold my...

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows

    DOOM Retro Features

    1.  GPLv3

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  5. Zandronum icon
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    Zandronum is a multiplayer oriented port, based off Skulltag, for Doom and Doom II by id Software.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Zandronum Features

    1.  Single player
    2.  Multiplayer
    3.  Online Gaming
    4.  Free to play

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  6. ECWolf icon
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    ECWolf is an advanced source port for Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, and Super 3D Noah's Ark based off of the Wolf4SDL code base. ECWolf pulls a substantial amount of code from ZDoom and aims to provide a wide array of mod editing capabilities without the need to modify...

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows

    ECWolf Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Single player

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  7. Odamex icon
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    Odamex is a free, cross-platform modification of the Doom engine. A copy of Doom, Doom II, Freedoom or Chex Quest is recommended to play it.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak

    Odamex Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Single player
    3.  Player vs Player
    4.  Multiplayer

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  8. Risen3D icon
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    Risen3D is an advanced Doom port by Graham Jackson based on Jaakko Keranen's Doomsday port. Risen3D should be used as a stand alone port as it does not require any of the Doomsday binaries.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows

    Risen3D Features

    1.  Portable

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  9. LZDoom icon
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    LZDoom is based on an older version of GZDoom. It does not provide all features currently supported by GZDoom but in turn is capable of running the hardware renderer on older hardware which does not support modern OpenGL features.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

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    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

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