Listing every Cacowards feature on Backloggd

[MundyC]

Any of you guys use Backloggd? It allows users to log, rate, review, and list video games and their various related mediums - mods, DLC, free expansions, bundles, and so on. Basically, if you use Letterboxd or RateYourMusic, then Backloggd is essentially their equivalent for gaming.

 

The website - or rather, the database it runs off of, IGDB - has a wide variety of Doom WADs cataloged. You've got single levels like Tech Gone Bad, megawads like Scythe II, gameplay mods like Reelism, total conversions like Batman Doom, and other types that I'm surely forgetting. As a result, there are quite a few lists dedicated to cataloging just Doom mods, though none of them compile all of the WADs that were featured on the Cacowards.

 

So, I took up the challenge. Here's a link to my list, containing over 450 Cacoward-featured and Cacoward-adjacent WADs!

 

Some notes and caveats:

1. The list is comprised of three sources - the Cacowards themselves, the Top 100 WADs of All Time, and the Top 25 Missed Cacowards. I am considering adding the WADs from the Top 100 Most Memorable Maps and Doot Eternal lists, but we'll see.
2. Not every Cacoward-featured WAD is on Backloggd. Of the 628(!) unique WADs I sorted, 162 aren't on the site - roughly 25%. Many of these are the earliest or most recent WADs as well as many multiplayer WADs, though there's a few I wasn't expecting like Crossing Acheron, Mordeth, and Cold as Hell.
3. There might be a few incorrect listings that feature completely different games w/ identical titles and release years to the WADs I was looking for. Let me know about these mistakes, as well as any missing WADs that have been added in the meantime.

[PasokonDeacon]

As an on-and-off Backloggd wonk (see my Doomsday of UAC review), I noticed and liked your Cacowards list about a week or so ago while going through WADs I need to log. I should also get some more WADs added to IGDB. There's going to be a lot more entries on those BL lists if we take the effort, and IGDB's pretty lenient on what data they'll take for new submissions (ex. copying from Doom Wiki).

[Maribo]

Anyone who clicks on this thread might also be interested in this massive list of Doom, Heretic, and Hexen WADs in the IGDB. I'm pretty sure a lot of this was added by @Retro, but they don't seem to post here much.

[Retro]

I'm just a lurker here but yeah I added most of them from that list. They're only the ones that interested me at a glance so a lot of multiplayer ones are missing especially. There's some links to other games/mods or you can use this one to see all I specifically added. I've been a bit burnt though and didn't really add lots of details to each submission either.

[MundyC]

Awesome! Thanks for your contributions to the site - I definitely wouldn't have made the Cacowards Backloggd list without them.

 

Speaking of, I've created two more Doom-related Backloggd lists since the OP was posted:

• Doomworld's Top 100 Most Memorable Maps
• The Doom Unity Port's Official Add-ons