Freedoom
Fan Game in the style of: Doom (1993) | Category: Classic-style games
Author: Freedoom project | Curator: Modbadger
Fan Game in the style of: Doom (1993) | Category: Classic-style games
Author: Freedoom project | Curator: Modbadger
Freedoom is a completely free game on the Doom engine. It contains its own levels, textures, music and sounds and is compatible with most custom levels and mods, allowing you to play Doom without needing to own the original game.
Localizations:
Localizations:
The fan game is localized into 1 language
(You don’t need to download anything extra to play in these languages)
Freedoom is an open-source project aimed at providing a completely free replacement for the original Doom games, which are proprietary. Although the Doom engine source code was released under the GPL license, the game assets themselves (graphics, sounds, levels, characters) remained closed. Freedoom fills this gap by creating compatible and freely distributable assets, resulting in a complete and legal free game.
Freedoom contains its own levels, textures, music and sounds compatible with the Doom engine, and allows you to play a Doom-style shooter, including thousands of custom levels and mods, without needing to own the original game.
Additionally, Freedoom contains hundreds of original textures, sound effects and music tracks that can be reused in other projects without paying royalties.
The project includes three main datasets (IWAD):
Freedoom: Phase 1 — a campaign compatible with Ultimate Doom levels.
Freedoom: Phase 2 — a campaign compatible with Doom II and Final Doom levels.
FreeDM — a set of levels for multiplayer deathmatch mode.
How to install a fan game Freedoom
It is recommended to use GZDoom or a similar engine to run the game.
If you are using GZDoom:
Move freedoom1.wad or freedoom2.wad to the GZDoom folder
Drag and drop the .wad file onto gzdoom.exe
Play!
You can also create a Launcher.bat. This is suitable for running more complex mod setups where the loading order of mods matters, 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 come 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 mod setups with a double-click on this launcher.
