Obscure or underated as hell WADs/mods

[Ningen666]

Anyone have any obscure, hard to find, almost completely unheard of wads out there that deserve to be mentioned?
Maps, Total conversions, or even gameplay mods?

[continuum.mid]

Nothing too obscure, it's a Cacoward honorable mention, but...

 

Water Spirit by Manbou. If you haven't played his contributions to JPCP (as burabojunior), you should; and then play this beautiful mini-adventure through blue and beige temples suspended in the sky.

 

 

[Somniac]

I used to love playing with this SiN weapons mod years ago, just be careful with the BFG replacement as its pretty easy to blow yourself up with IIRC.

[RichardDS90]

 

 

I've said this before, and I will say it again, this map deserves FAR more attention. It's an absolute blast and I can never get enough of it!

[Gothic]

Mine :)

 

But seriously, check Scientist 2 (it's not a sequel, it's just the same as the previous one with more maps)

[Naarok0fkor]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/gzdoom-launcher/downloads/naarok0fkors-walpurgis-frag-2023

[LadyMistDragon]

Area 666

 

It's kind of messy and feels incredibly late 90s but is actually really fun. Jagermorder I from the same year is also pretty good, but this one's in your face.

[thestarrover]

Maybe you can try the " Defender"  Doom II wads by Imperializer. Originally released on archives.3dgamers.com are available on his blog.

 

The Defender  9 levels

The Defender II  9 levels

The Defender III  5 levels

The Defender IV  ( and standalone soundtrack) 10 levels

 

[Pegleg]

@Polyg0n

 

Here's a collection of some maps and mapsets that I thought were solid and that I don't hear a lot about. They cover a range of styles and difficulties.

 

A Taste for Blood (Doom 2, 6 maps, 2012)

Absolute Dishonor (Doom 2, 8 maps, 2016)

Abyssion (Doom 2, 1 map, 2009)

Castle of the Renegades (Doom, 1 map, 1995; there's also a Doom 2 version)

Curse of Blood (Doom 2, 11 maps, 2015)

Disciples of Darkness (Doom 2, 4 maps, 2017)

Fracture (Doom 2, 5 maps, 1999)

Outpost 21 (Doom, 1 map, 1994; there's also a Doom 2 version)

Realm of Shades (Doom 2, 7 maps, 1998)

Riot Control (Doom 2, 4 maps, 2011)

Shaitan's Luck (Doom 2, 11 maps, 2009)

Siteline (Doom, 1 map, revised in 2020)

Sprawllbase (Doom 2, 1 map, revised in 2020)

Tyrant (Doom 2, 5 maps, 2017)

 

You can also check out the Doom wad archeology thread for other long-lost maps and mapsets and a recent thread about 90's megawads.

[Anarkzie]

On 4/25/2023 at 3:11 PM, RichardDS90 said:

 

 

I've said this before, and I will say it again, this map deserves FAR more attention. It's an absolute blast and I can never get enough of it!

 

Thanks for the recommendation, this level is brilliant.

[Ningen666]

these maps are awesome!
Keep more coming, I will post some if I find any.

Edited May 5, 2023 by Polyg0n

[OceanMadman]

I played once a horror wad for skulltag called Nightmare Maze v6 which was surprisingly fun to play. It had a similar vibe to silent hill and different game modes.

[thestarrover]

MGANT.WAD

I found the download link on a post on Twitter some days ago

 

Glorious Trainwreck DOOM WADS.

Some Doom levels I found on Glorious Trainwreck site some time ago

The quality of the wads is highly variable.

 

Very nice is fivezone.wad