Recommended WADs

Here’s a curated list of just some of the very best PWADs available, made by talented members of the DOOM community over the past 30 years or so that you can play using DOOM Retro.

	The 10×10 Project	lunchlunch
	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
	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
	Blight	JamesBone
	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
	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
	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
	DBP68: Outposts Of The Wasteland	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
	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
	Fallen Leaves	Brian “Bri” Irving
	Finely Crafted Fetish Film	Zachary “Ribbiks” Stephens
	For Whom The Bell Tolls	Didy
	Formless Mother	Treehouseminis
	Forsaken Compound	Ivymagnapinna
	Foursite	Bauul
	Fuel Devourer	C4tnt and Archi
	Goetia 1	Tib
	Going Down Turbo	mouldy
	Gravity	Alexander “Eternal” S.
	Habitat Complex	AshtralFiend
	Head Trauma	AshtralFiend
	The High Resolution DOOM Sound Effects Pack	Perkristian
	Hydrosphere	Brian “Bri” Irving
	Infection	exl
	Infraworld - The Hatehammer	StormCatcher.77
	Japanese Community Project	Tatsurd-Cacocaco and others
	Khorus	Shadowman
	Knee-Deep in Knee-Deep in ZDoom	Sarah “Esselfortium” Mancuso
	Kreatura	Nicolas Monti
	Lilywhite Lilith	Various
	Liminal DOOM 2	dashlet
	Literalism	Various
	Lost Civilization	Jaakko “Jaska” Impola
	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
	Necromantic Thirst	franckFRAG
	Nex Credo	Jay X Townsend
	Nostalgic Entropy: Neo Retro	AshtralFiend
	Novis	jdagenet
	Occult Secrets Of The Third Reich On Mars	Big Ol’ Billy and others
	One Humanity	John Romero
	Otherworldly Ossuary	AshtralFiend
	Ozonia	Deadwing
	Pact Of The Damned	Blue Phoenix
	Pagodia	Egg Boy
	Pathogen	Crunchynut44
	Phobos Mission Control1	John Romero
	Pirate DOOM II	Darch
	Pumping Station	VisionThing
	Reconstruction/Decomposition	Da Werecat
	REKKR	Matthew “Revae” Little
	REKKR: Sunken Land	Matthew “Revae” Little
	Remnant	Aurelius
	rf1024	’rf
	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
	Sunlust	Zachary “Ribbiks” Stephens and Daniel “Dannebubinga” Jakobsson
	Super Mayhem 17	Marcaek
	Suspended In Dusk	Esa “Espi” Repo
	Swim With The Whales	Zachary “Ribbiks” Stephens
	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
	UAC Ultra	40oz and Super Jamie
	Unhallowed	CyanoBlugron
	Valiant	Paul “skillsaw” DeBruyne
	Vanguard	Paul “skillsaw” DeBruyne
	Venom Vendetta	AshtralFiend
	Vesper	Xaser Acheron
	Vicious Realms	Horus
	Vile Flesh	Gwyn Williams
	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.