BCDEATH5.WAD

Funny, this plays on the e2m5 slot with the droning, edgy "Demons on the Prey," leads you off with an imposing metal fortress facade, and certainly continues with the overall floorplan of a squat fortress with all sorts of chambers and tunnels -- but, really…it's a My House map? The author itemizes its contents excitedly in the text file -- "bedrooms, bathrooms, showers, toilets, sinks, a billiard room, a pool complete with patio furniture, a library" -- and there seem to be a lot of clumsily oversized books, or folders (?). It's pretty amusing. 

With 44 monsters and 7 secrets, the experience is more about exploration than combat. You're going to want to skip the two early cacodemons and the baron unless you like plinking away at beefy monsters while greatly underarmed. Doing that at least gives a way of using the BFG you get on something, which you'll otherwise get only after everything is dead. At first I pegged the secrets as an optional sidequest, but it turns out they are more or less mandatory -- the keys are in it -- which was a bit disappointing because I thought it'd be cool to have a contender for "first ever extensive BFG sidequest in a pwad." Keys in secrets can be a scary thought, but hunting everything down was easy. Obvious humping is greatly rewarded. Even by '94 standards, it's light in the action department, which is an issue mostly because you won't get to use all the loot on much, even with foresight.