Classifying every megawad in 2024 so far
Jun 4, 2024 18:56:19 GMT -5
Post by NuMetalManiak on Jun 4, 2024 18:56:19 GMT -5
Felt like doing a classification of every megawad in 2024 up to this point, since we're in the halfway month after all. Reminder a megawad has to have 15+ maps. Here my classification isn't specifically on ports but I'll add them in parantheses, but rather gameplay style at the very most. BECAUSE GAMEPLAY STYLE IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AND LETS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU COULD BE GETTING INTO.
Gimmicky (or mostly gimmicky): These are of course the ones that are done with some limitations or interesting ideas. I'll put them in parantheses with the engine needed.
Extra Beany Canned Doom (LR, various gimmicks)
Rise of the Triangles (Boom, 100 linedefs)
10 Line Genocide (UMAPINFO-supporting, 10 linedefs)
Alphabet Doom (vanilla/LR, letters)
Crate Expectations (LR, crates and barrels)
Doomed: By The Hour 2 (Boom, every map done in 1 hour)
PUSS 33: Die Rowdy (LR, themed like Hellevator)
30 Years Doomed (vanilla, speedmaps)
Death by 1000 Lines (LR/UMAPINFO-supporting, 1000 linedefs)
Blocked Out! (Boom, texture limitation)
150 Line Massacre: The Golden Skulls (vanilla, 150 lines)
Paint it Doom (MBF21, simple textures)
DARKZONE (Boom, dark maps)
Sunder For People Who Don't Have Time To Play Sunder (Boom, bite-size versions of Sunder)
Countdown to Death (LR, made in 1 hour or less)
30MC2: Thirty Aliens (MBF21, 30 monsters and Ancient Aliens-themed)
The Ultimate Byte Sized Doom 2 (Chocolate Doom, 32 minutes per map)
Constriction 1024 (Boom, 1024x1024)
Regular Doom action: Classic or modern
Polish Community Project (Boom)
Ultimate Return to Hadron (LR)
Maiden Voyage (LR)
Doom 2 In City Only (MBF21)
Realm of Chaos: 25th Anniversary Edition (vanilla)
Snow Wave Community Project (Boom)
Thrice Doomed (vanilla)
Do Not Enter (Boom)
WANG (vanilla)
Super Doom TV (possibly vanilla?)
Thirty Years of Doom (Boom)
HELL'S BANE (UMAPINFO-supporting)
Arriving Early (MBF21)
Doomium II (Boom)
Emergency on Planet Earth (possibly vanilla?)
Simulacrum (MBF21)
Doom Part 2: Earth in Hell (vanilla)
Road to Hades (Boom)
Freudian Slipgate 2 (Boom)
Spectrum Descent (MBF21)
Scorching Earth (LR)
Plutonic Visions (vanilla)
PUSS 32: D-30 (UMAPINFO-supporting)
PUSS Treasure Chest Vol. 6 (UMAPINFO-supporting)
Curse of Blood (MBF21)
DBP67: Marble Hill (LR)
Amateur Levels for Boom (Boom)
Community Chest 2 Remix (UMAPINFO-supporting)
Into Sandy's Cities (Chocolate Doom)
VlaDooM (GZDoom)
Mindprison Project (LR)
Partial conversions: Tends to have regular Doom action, but also does have new things like changes to existing weapons or monsters or brand new ones.
Dominus Diabolicus (MBF21)
The Quinary Conundrum (MBF21)
Headless Chicken (Boom)
Judgement: Retrial (MBF21)
DBP66: Lunar Strain (LR)
Pirate Doom II (MBF21)
Parallel Doomensions (UMAPINFO-supporting)
Frozen Heart (MBF21)
The Experiment II (GZDoom)
Neodoom 2024 Ediiton (GZDoom)
Penance 4: Arena 1.2 (Zandronum)
Over-the-top/overdone/experimental megawads: The "play at your own risk" category. These mapsets either have speedmaps that are slaughterfests, things that break your framerate even if you play with the strongest computer on DSDA-Doom, or I couldn't really classify them elsewhere.
Revenant Hallway (Boom)
Junkfood 3 (MBF21)
Hot Old Garbage (Boom)
The Esoteric Formula (Boom)
Dubzzz's 5Minute Design Assembly 4ever (DSDA-Doom, possibly Boom/MBF21?)
24TIMEBOM.wad (vanilla)
McDoomguy Slaughterific Sample Platter (MBF21)
Anniversary Under The Sea (GZDoom)
PUSS 30: Quick and Dirty (UMAPINFO-supporting)
PUSS 34: Naughty & Nice (MBF21/UMAPINFO-supporting)
Little Italo (Boom)
RRSP3 (various)
RAMP2024 (various)
Skibiditernal (vanilla)
Hard Nut to Crack (vanilla, except for one map)
60 Minute Marathon 2 (MBF21)
Technically not a megawad?:
Voice in the Abyss (this one is classified under megawads cause it has 16 maps, but it's got a NG+ version of the original 8 maps and is fashioned as a "8 map megawad")
Voices of the Neither (Doom64, same as above)
Paradise Up Above: Gold Label (Boom, 8 main levels, 8 NG+ levels and some bonus maps)
This is so far the megawads of 2024. As of this time I have counted 79 megawads for this year. This original OP for the record only includes releases listed on idgames for 2024 (minus stuff like Austrian Avian Association and Hardfest 2, those actually got cacos and DL links in 2023 despite being released on idgames in 2024 but they're not included here). This will of course be updated if I'm given more suggestions, so fire away with anything I missed or anything brand new coming out.
Sorry about the lack of links, I might add them later. Might.
Gimmicky (or mostly gimmicky): These are of course the ones that are done with some limitations or interesting ideas. I'll put them in parantheses with the engine needed.
Extra Beany Canned Doom (LR, various gimmicks)
Rise of the Triangles (Boom, 100 linedefs)
10 Line Genocide (UMAPINFO-supporting, 10 linedefs)
Alphabet Doom (vanilla/LR, letters)
Crate Expectations (LR, crates and barrels)
Doomed: By The Hour 2 (Boom, every map done in 1 hour)
PUSS 33: Die Rowdy (LR, themed like Hellevator)
30 Years Doomed (vanilla, speedmaps)
Death by 1000 Lines (LR/UMAPINFO-supporting, 1000 linedefs)
Blocked Out! (Boom, texture limitation)
150 Line Massacre: The Golden Skulls (vanilla, 150 lines)
Paint it Doom (MBF21, simple textures)
DARKZONE (Boom, dark maps)
Sunder For People Who Don't Have Time To Play Sunder (Boom, bite-size versions of Sunder)
Countdown to Death (LR, made in 1 hour or less)
30MC2: Thirty Aliens (MBF21, 30 monsters and Ancient Aliens-themed)
The Ultimate Byte Sized Doom 2 (Chocolate Doom, 32 minutes per map)
Constriction 1024 (Boom, 1024x1024)
Regular Doom action: Classic or modern
Polish Community Project (Boom)
Ultimate Return to Hadron (LR)
Maiden Voyage (LR)
Doom 2 In City Only (MBF21)
Realm of Chaos: 25th Anniversary Edition (vanilla)
Snow Wave Community Project (Boom)
Thrice Doomed (vanilla)
Do Not Enter (Boom)
WANG (vanilla)
Super Doom TV (possibly vanilla?)
Thirty Years of Doom (Boom)
HELL'S BANE (UMAPINFO-supporting)
Arriving Early (MBF21)
Doomium II (Boom)
Emergency on Planet Earth (possibly vanilla?)
Simulacrum (MBF21)
Doom Part 2: Earth in Hell (vanilla)
Road to Hades (Boom)
Freudian Slipgate 2 (Boom)
Spectrum Descent (MBF21)
Scorching Earth (LR)
Plutonic Visions (vanilla)
PUSS 32: D-30 (UMAPINFO-supporting)
PUSS Treasure Chest Vol. 6 (UMAPINFO-supporting)
Curse of Blood (MBF21)
DBP67: Marble Hill (LR)
Amateur Levels for Boom (Boom)
Community Chest 2 Remix (UMAPINFO-supporting)
Into Sandy's Cities (Chocolate Doom)
VlaDooM (GZDoom)
Mindprison Project (LR)
Partial conversions: Tends to have regular Doom action, but also does have new things like changes to existing weapons or monsters or brand new ones.
Dominus Diabolicus (MBF21)
The Quinary Conundrum (MBF21)
Headless Chicken (Boom)
Judgement: Retrial (MBF21)
DBP66: Lunar Strain (LR)
Pirate Doom II (MBF21)
Parallel Doomensions (UMAPINFO-supporting)
Frozen Heart (MBF21)
The Experiment II (GZDoom)
Neodoom 2024 Ediiton (GZDoom)
Penance 4: Arena 1.2 (Zandronum)
Over-the-top/overdone/experimental megawads: The "play at your own risk" category. These mapsets either have speedmaps that are slaughterfests, things that break your framerate even if you play with the strongest computer on DSDA-Doom, or I couldn't really classify them elsewhere.
Revenant Hallway (Boom)
Junkfood 3 (MBF21)
Hot Old Garbage (Boom)
The Esoteric Formula (Boom)
Dubzzz's 5Minute Design Assembly 4ever (DSDA-Doom, possibly Boom/MBF21?)
24TIMEBOM.wad (vanilla)
McDoomguy Slaughterific Sample Platter (MBF21)
Anniversary Under The Sea (GZDoom)
PUSS 30: Quick and Dirty (UMAPINFO-supporting)
PUSS 34: Naughty & Nice (MBF21/UMAPINFO-supporting)
Little Italo (Boom)
RRSP3 (various)
RAMP2024 (various)
Skibiditernal (vanilla)
Hard Nut to Crack (vanilla, except for one map)
60 Minute Marathon 2 (MBF21)
Technically not a megawad?:
Voice in the Abyss (this one is classified under megawads cause it has 16 maps, but it's got a NG+ version of the original 8 maps and is fashioned as a "8 map megawad")
Voices of the Neither (Doom64, same as above)
Paradise Up Above: Gold Label (Boom, 8 main levels, 8 NG+ levels and some bonus maps)
This is so far the megawads of 2024. As of this time I have counted 79 megawads for this year. This original OP for the record only includes releases listed on idgames for 2024 (minus stuff like Austrian Avian Association and Hardfest 2, those actually got cacos and DL links in 2023 despite being released on idgames in 2024 but they're not included here). This will of course be updated if I'm given more suggestions, so fire away with anything I missed or anything brand new coming out.
Sorry about the lack of links, I might add them later. Might.