Temple of Death

A hard survival-style map, with a mix of gimmicky tricks (you'll understand that as soon as you start) and some quasi-slaughter situations. What prevents this from being an actual/enjoyable slaughtermap though, is the extreme stinginess with ammo and health, and more than once you'lll find yourself in a situation where you have to trade one for the other or otherwise take trial & error kinds of risks. Also SSG is acquired relatively late in the map (in an optional area that could be also marked  as a secret, no less), making an already hard map even harder, and forcing you to plough halfway through it in Doom 1 shotgun guru-style. Speaking of secrets there are plenty of (IMO) unmarked ones. Interesting map, but frustrating to play. This would be even more so in 1995, without all the source port trickery like freelook, freeaim, decorations blocking projectiles...

P.S. Since this is a highly non-linear map, there are multiple progression paths that can make this either a resonable challenge or a chore, depending on how early you manage to access the SSG and a backpack and/or berserk pack. On my first playthrough it seems I painted myself into a corner, having to clear most of the map with the shotty. Even with much better ammo efficiency, it's still not the best strategy to try and kill everything, even after using the chainsaw/berserk first whenever possible.

First Kvernmo wad, fourth on the Cabal series, large map full of traps, I found a shortcut so I missed some of the battles. Unlike the previous 400+ monsters.