Source port Playable

Doom / Heretic / Hexen (Russian Doom)

Games: Doom → (DOS, 1993) · Heretic → (DOS, 1994) · Hexen: Beyond Heretic → (DOS, 1995)

Russian Doom: a limit-removing source port of Doom, Heretic, and Hexen. It continues the Russian Doom and International Doom codebase maintained by Leonid Murin (Dasperal), builds on Chocolate Doom and Crispy Doom with significant additions from Doom Retro, and is distributed with their authors’ approval. It fixes numerous bugs of the original games, renders at enhanced 640×400 and 1280×800 resolutions, has improved palettes and many optional aesthetic enhancements, and offers the most complete translation into Russian possible. The latest numbered version is 6.3 (October 29, 2023), which gathers the changes made before International Doom 7.0 abandoned this code; its builds are for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, and on Linux there is an AUR package or you compile it. The repository is still active (last change on May 11, 2026). A separate version exists for DOS. Besides the code, the repository includes about twenty WAD files in src/base with resources for the three games; among them, doom-beta.wad, doom-jaguar.wad, and hexen-psx.wad (4 to 6 MB each) carry maps and graphics from the Doom beta, Doom for the Jaguar, and Hexen for the PlayStation. test_data also holds three test WADs (DOOM1.WAD, HERETIC1.WAD, and hexen.wad, about 19 MB).

You needThe files (IWAD) from your own copy of Doom, Doom II, Heretic, or Hexen, depending on which game you want to play; the README points to the project’s wiki for details. Plus 32-bit or 64-bit Windows, or Linux.

How it gets to PC: Port of the released source code
Console: MS-DOS
Original studio: id Software, Raven Software
Year: 1993
Author: Russian-Doom
Stars: 89
Last activity: 2026-05-11 · 5 months ago
Latest version: 6.3 · 2023-10-29
License: GPL-2.0
Language: C