GZDoom

Games: Doom → (DOS, 1993) · Doom II: Hell on Earth → (DOS, 1994) · Heretic → (DOS, 1994) · Hexen: Beyond Heretic → (DOS, 1995) · Strife: Quest for the Sigil (DOS, 1996)

GZDoom: a “feature-centric” port for all Doom engine games, based on ZDoom, which adds an OpenGL and Vulkan renderer and scripting capabilities aimed at modders. The code is released under the GPL v3, with copyright held by the ZDoom and GZDoom teams since 1998 and their contributors; the original Doom code belongs to id Software, Raven Software, and contributors. The latest release, 4.14.2 (May 3, 2025), has builds for Windows and macOS and .deb packages for amd64 and arm64; the repository is still receiving changes (the latest commit reviewed is from August 2026). To build it, the README points to the ZDoom wiki.

You needThe WAD files from your own copy of whichever Doom engine game you want to play; the README doesn’t list them. Windows, macOS, or Linux.

How it gets to PC

Port of the released source code

Original studio

id Software

Author

ZDoom

Stars

3.1k

Last activity

2026-08-10 · 2 months ago

Latest version

g4.14.2 · 2025-05-03

License

GPL-3.0

Language

C++

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