Blood
2 ports
Raze
ZDoom/Raze
Raze: a port of the Build engine games backed by GZDoom technology that brings Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Redneck Rampage, Shadow Warrior, and Exhumed/PowerSlave together in a single program, and can also play NAM and WW2 GI. Each game builds on an earlier port: Duke Nukem 3D on JFDuke and EDuke 2.0, with World Tour extensions from DukeGDX; Redneck Rampage on Nuke.YKT’s reconstructed source (Rednukem); Blood on NBlood; Shadow Warrior on SWP and VoidSW; and Exhumed on PCExhumed, with enhancements inspired by PowerslaveGDX. It recognizes each game’s versions and add-ons, such as Duke Nukem 3D’s Atomic Edition, Plutonium Pak, and World Tour with Duke It Out in D.C., Duke Caribbean, and Nuclear Winter, One Unit Whole Blood and Cryptic Passage, Redneck Rampage Rides Again and Route 66, or Shadow Warrior’s Wanton Destruction and Twin Dragon, plus the shareware versions. From GZDoom it inherits OpenGL, Vulkan, and OpenGL ES renderers and a game picker at startup. Version 1.11.0 (February 22, 2025) brought fixes for every game and a widescreen menu background for Shadow Warrior. There are builds for Windows and macOS, and it builds on Linux.
You needThe data files from your own copy of one of the games (Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Redneck Rampage, Shadow Warrior, Exhumed/PowerSlave, NAM, or WW2 GI), with their add-ons if you have them; the free shareware versions work too. Plus Windows, macOS, or Linux.
Blood (NBlood)
NBlood/NBlood
NBlood: a port of Blood and its Cryptic Passage expansion, rebuilt through reverse engineering on top of the technology of EDuke32, the Duke Nukem 3D port that uses Ken Silverman’s Build engine; EDuke32 developers such as Hendricks266 and TerminX work on it too. If you have the digital Steam or GOG release installed, it finds it without copying anything, and it supports the Blood: Fresh Supply data. It can use the CD music as FLAC or OGG instead of MIDI and the original CD’s cutscenes, and it ships graphics adapted to widescreen made by community members. It has a strict vanilla mode, optional voxels, controller rumble, and multiplayer. The same repository holds Rednukem, for Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition, Redneck Rampage, Redneck Rampage: Rides Again, Duke Nukem 64, NAM, and World War II GI, and PCExhumed, for the PC version of Exhumed (PowerSlave). It publishes 32- and 64-bit Windows builds; the latest, r14388, is from September 14.
You needThe files from your own copy of Blood 1.21: BLOOD.INI, BLOOD.RFF, GUI.RFF, SOUNDS.RFF, SURFACE.DAT, TILES000.ART to TILES017.ART, and VOXEL.DAT, plus Cryptic Passage’s if you want to play it; with the Steam or GOG release installed, nothing needs copying. Plus Windows; on Linux and other systems you have to build it.
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Questions
What projects are there for Blood?
The catalog has 2 ports for Blood, all on this page with their status.
What do I need to play it?
Your own copy of Blood (DOS). Recompendium only links projects that don’t distribute the game, and each entry says which version or region you need.
Which one is the most popular?
Raze, with 891 stars on GitHub.