Abysm X: Dance of Blood
Mod for Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994) | Category: Total Conversion
Author: jazzmaster9 | Curator: 
Modbadger
Mod for Doom II: Hell on Earth (1994) | Category: Total Conversion
Author: jazzmaster9 | Curator: Modbadger
Abysm X: Dance of Blood — a total conversion of Doom II into an action RPG in the spirit of Diablo, Dark Souls, and Strife, offering a dark adventure with world exploration, character progression, crafting, and an inventory system.
For decades, the small kingdom of Dorian has suffered under the cruel vampire lord Malakai and his demonic servants.
Localizations:
Localizations:
The mod is localized into 1 language
(You don’t need to download anything extra to play in these languages)
After the king's son is kidnapped, a bounty is placed on the vampire's head — but all who attempted to breach his castle vanished without a trace. Now Margaret sets out on a perilous journey to destroy Malakai and put an end to his bloody reign.
The player explores three dark worlds connected by a central hub with NPCs, merchants, and Archstone keepers. The combat system stays true to classic Doom — fast-paced battles, weapon hunting, and hordes of enemies — but is enhanced with RPG mechanics.
At the start, the player chooses one of three classes: Warrior, Berserker, or Sorcerer. Each class has its own weapons, starting items, and stats.
The game features a full attribute system: Strength, Agility, Intelligence, Vitality, and Endurance. Killing enemies grants experience, and leveling up allows improving stats to increase damage and survivability. Different weapons scale with specific attributes, and Intelligence additionally unlocks new crafting recipes — see the mod's PDF file for details.
Defeated enemies drop gold, iron shards, and mana. Gold is spent at merchants, while resources are used to craft ammunition, armor, and special items including fire bombs.
For the best experience, GZDoom 4.13.0 or newer is recommended, along with enabling options such as always mouselook, crosshair, jumping, alternate fire, and inventory controls.
How to install a mod Abysm X: Dance of Blood
To run the mod, you will need the GZDoom engine and doom.wad, doom2.wad, or one of the FreeDoom IWADs
Make sure that doom.wad / doom2.wad or freedoom1.wad / freedoom2.wad is located in the GZDoom folder
Move the mod's .pk3 file to the GZDoom folder
Drag and drop the .pk3 file onto gzdoom.exe
Play!
You can also create a Launcher.bat. This is useful for launching more complex mod builds where the loading order of mods is important, or to launch the game via a shortcut.
How to create a launcher for running mods based on GZDoom
Create a text file in the GZDoom folder, you can name it Launcher. The text can look like this, depending on which files you're using:
gzdoom.exe -iwad freedoom2.wad -file "brutalv22test4.pk3"-iwad must always be first, and the number of files after -file can be unlimited, just write them in quotes separated by spaces, like this:
gzdoom.exe -iwad doom2.wad -file "addon1.pk3" "addon2.pk3" "addon3.pk3" "addon4.pk3"Change its format from .txt to .bat by simply renaming it. Now you can launch your builds with a double-click on this launcher.
