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⬆️ Doomworld Community Top WADs of All Time (resurrected)

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brendondle, thank you for voting!

Tally updated.

 

Experiment: list Community Top WADs in reverse order. Incentive: make less popular WADs more visible.

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I think I should update my votes a bit:

 

Full Tally with changes bolded

10 - Ozonia

9 - 180 Minutes pour Vivre

7 - Struggle: Antaresian Legacy

6 - Eviternity

4 - Ray Mohawk 2 - Ray Wrecks Havoc!

4 - Uprising

4 - Tangerine Nightmare

2 - Judgment

2 - 3 Heures d'Agonie 2

2 - Antaresian Reliquary

2 - Fractured Worlds

1 - Sunlust

1 - Doom Zero

1 - Bourgeois Megawad


(Honorable mentions, if anybody is interested)

Spoiler

 

Doom Negative One - Beyond the experiment

Lost Civilization

Doom 1 the Way Id Did

Ancient Aliens

Going Down

Malevolence

Valiant

1000 lines 3

Cydonia

Vanguard

 

 

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For people who wish to replay with the latest version for better judging your votes, here are some wads that you may not know were updated:

 

Obituary (1995) -  Obticfix-v2 (3rd party fixes) (year ?)
STRAIN (1997) -  StrainFix + Strain_Jive (3rd party fixes) (2005)
NEIS (2016) -  NEIS v1.4 (2018)
Death Tormention (year ?) -  Death Tormention Complete Trilogy (with Simple Phobos as E1)
 (2019)
2002ado (2002) -  2002ad10 (10th anniversary) (2012)
Jenesis (2011) -  + Jenefix (additional file) (2013)
Simplicity (2005) -  Ultimate Simplicity (2007)
Simplicity (2005) -  sp_fail (scrapped maps) (2007)
Dark7 (2002) -  Dark7 v1.3 SE (2008)
Dark7MPK (2002) -  Dark7MPK SE (2008)
Valiant (2015) -  Sawdust (scrapped maps) (2016)
Valiant (2015) -  ValVE (Valiant Vaccinated Edition, for playing with gameplay mods) (2015)
NDCP2 (2009) -  NDCP2_2010 (fixes) (2010)
Doom Core (year ?) -  Doom Core Delta (10th anniversary) (2021?)
Caverns of Darkness (2002) -  + cod_zd (additional file to play it properly on ZDoom) (2008)
Zen Dynamics (2005) -  Zen Dynamics v2.5 (2006)
DTWID (2011) -  Ultimate DTWID (E4 only) (2019)
DTWID-LE (2014?) -  DTWID-LE v1.666 (2016)

Breach beta (2015) -  Breach v1.0 (2017)
Doom Raider (2003) -  Doom Raider 2020 (2020)

Tormentor667's: TCOTD, Sapphire, Austerity (2020 releases need GZDoom v4.4+, 2022 releases need GZDoom v4.8.2)

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Finally getting around to play BTSX E1, so vote update, plz :)

 

5 points: Darkening E2; Scythe 2; Plutonia 2

4 points: Requiem; Memento Mori 2; IC2005

3 points: Back To Saturn X - E1; Ultimate Simplicity; Phobos: Anomaly Reborn; Chex Quest 3; Batman Doom

2 points: No End In Sight; Zen Dynamics; All Hell Is Breaking Loose; Dark7MPK; 10 Sectors

1 point: Eternal Doom IV: Return from Oblivion; Crusades; Decade

Edited by doombedoom : missed one last point

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Alien Vendetta - 10

Community Chest 1 - 10

Community Chest 4 - 10

Hell Revealed - 10

Eternal - 10

TNT - 5

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doombedoom, thanks for the update!

Bob9001, thanks for voting!

 

Tally updated.

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Tally update

(the final tally for 2022, unless I happen to play something mindblowing)

 

New main tally with changes bolded

10 - Ozonia

9 - 180 Minutes pour Vivre

7 - Struggle: Antaresian Legacy

5 - Eviternity

4 - Ray Mohawk 2 - Ray Wrecks Havoc!

4 - Uprising

4 - Tangerine Nightmare

3 - Doom Negative One - Beyond the experiment

2 - Wormwood ]I[ The Horror

2 - 3 Heures d'Agonie 2

1 - Judgment

1 - Fractured Worlds

1 - Doom Zero

1 - Bourgeois Megawad

1 - 1000 lines 3

 

Top 5 6 Honorable Mentions

Going Down

Overboard

Ancient Aliens

Sunlust

Ad Mortem

Lost Civilization

 

Other Honorable Mentions

Spoiler

Antaresian Reliquary

Malevolence

Valiant

Vanguard

Vesper (weapon mod for MBF 21)

Cydonia

Plutonia Experiment

Ray Mohawk 1

Roudy Rudy 2

Down the Drain

Doom 1 the way ID did

Scythe 1

Doom 2 : Hell on Earth

Zone400

 

Edited by Azure_Horror : added Overboard, Vesper & Ray Mohawk 1 to honorable mentions

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Ancient Aliens, Sunlust and Eviternity are my top 3 picks to recommend to other people whenever Im on topic of best wads made.

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Ok, time to do this before I probably have no time, lol.

 

9 points to 180 Minutes Pour Vivre

9 points to Alien Vendetta

8 points to Ancient Aliens

6 points to Eviternity

4 points to Memento Mori II

4 points to Eternal Doom

4 points to Grove

3 points to Going Down

2 points to Hellbound

2 points to Plutonia 2

2 points to Arrival

1 point to 1000 Lines 3

1 point to Memento Mori

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Sunder 10

Sunlust 9
Eviternity 9
Deus Vult II 9

Unloved 6
Lost Civilisation 6
Going Down 6

 

You might not want to count my vote since I didn’t play the wads by the rules… I mean, I played a LOT of theses wad’s maps with invulnerability cheat code. Nevertheless, whether it be simple stressless catharsis, deep esthetic contemplation, pure admiration for the mapper’s skills and tricks (and most of the time for other player’s skills to finish the maps), lovecraftian love or anything else (I went through a lot of feelings playing again Doom nearly 30 years after the first time), these are the wads that made me come back in this world (even though I’m far from being a gamer).
My choices are, simultaneously, classical and very modernish… no deep cut here, almost everyone knows these ones, but they are also very far from the original doom and doom II (which I still love a lot !).
Got a lot of shocks with the last 6 but the full discover of the Sunder maps (without the stress of being killed but with the exquisite pleasure of platforming (maps 11, 17, 18, 16 and of course 5…)) was tremendous to me. Every map is like a short novel and the difficulty with short novels is to find coherence when you put them together, here it’s an impressive success with gigantic decadence and melancholy as link, these maps all taste like collapsed ancient arches.

So, from a total newbie but with deep consideration, thanks to the community, the mappers, the musicians, the texturers, etc, for the four last months I spent were greats because of your talents !

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Figured I'd update this for the last time this year.

 

Old votes:

On 7/6/2022 at 12:43 AM, Andromeda said:

Stardate 20X6 - 10 points

Stardate 20X7 - 9 points

Haste - 8 points

Crumpets - 7 points

Uprising - 6 points

Rush - 5 points

Sunlust - 4 points

Speed of Doom - 3 points

Micro Slaughter Community Project - 2 points

Newgothic Movement 2 - 1 point

 

New votes:

 

Fractured Worlds - 10 points

Stardate 20X6 - 9 points

Ray Mohawk 2 - 8 points

Stardate 20X7 - 7 points

Haste - 6 points

Crumpets - 5 points

Uprising - 4 points

Rush - 3 points

Sunlust - 2 points

Speed of Doom - 1 point

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10 points - Hell Revealed (hr.wad)

9 points - Scythe 2 (scythe2.wad)

8 points - Combat-Shock 2 (c-shock2.wad)

7 points - Rowdy Rudy 2: POWERTRIP! (rudy2.wad)

6 points - Back to Saturn X Episode 1 (btsx_e1a.wad, btsx_e1b.wad)

5 points - Hell Revealed 2 (hr2final.wad)

4 points - Rowdy Rudy's Revenge (rwdyrudy.wad)

3 points - Alien Vendetta (av.wad)

2 points - Scythe (scythe.wad)

1 point - The Plutonia Experiment (plutonia.wad)

 

Yes, considering Hell Revealed to be my favorite WAD of all time means I have atrocious taste. What about it?

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7 - Eviltech
7 - TNT: Evilution

5 - Ancient Aliens

5 - Auger; Zenith
5 - BTSX ep1

5 - Ultimate Doom
5 - Valiant

4 - Alien Vendetta
4 - Chex Quest
4 - Deus Vult
4 - Happy.wad

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Time to make my contribution!

 

10 - Lost Civilization
8 - Heartland
7 - Struggle: Antaresian Legacy
7 - Stardate 20X7
5 - Ancient Aliens
4 - Antaresian Reliquary
4 - Fractured Worlds
4 - Valiant
2 - Sunlust
2 - Eviternity
1 - Magnolia
1 - Deus Vult II

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I counted the occurrences of characters in WAD titles in the list just for fun.

 

The top 10 digits in Doomworld Community Top WADs titles:

occurrences number
     54        2
     38        0
     34        1
     24        3
     10        4
      9        6
      9        5
      5        7
      4        9
      2        8

 

The most common letter is 'e' (776 occurrences). The rarest English letter is 'q' (6 occurrences). The most popular punctuation mark is ':' (62 occurrences).

 

Amuzingly, '!' occurs 10 times, while '?' doesn't occur at all. Doom is not a question, I guess.

 

In other news, Ancient Aliens reached 502 points. That's a lot: according to the points, Ancient Aliens is more than 8 Vanguards.

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Relative IWAD popularity by points per year:

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(Bold italics - IWAD release. "Other" includes Heretic, Hexen, standalone games and wads for any Doom.)

 

 

Doom II

 

I knew that Doom II dominated the list, but I didn't realize that it started doing so right after the release, and not lowering below 60% except in 2002 and 2008. In 16 years (1995, 1997-1998, 2000-2001, 2003-2006, 2010, 2012-2013, 2015, 2018, 2020-2021) Doom II has > 90% points. In 1998 and 2005 Doom II has 100% points.

The first year when Doom II is contested is 1996, when The Plutonia Experiment, TNT: Evilution and Chex Quest are released.

 

 

Doom

 

Years without Doom points at all: 1998, 2005, 2008, 2017, 2020-2021.

 

Notable years:

1995: Fava Beans, The Lost Episodes of Doom and SQUARES are released.

1999: Crusades and wow.wad are released.

2000: The Classic Episode is released.

2002 is the only year when Doom has the majority of points. 2002: A Doom Odyssey, 007: Licence to Spell DooM and CH Retro Episode are released.

2007: Knee-Deep in ZDoom and Back to Basics are released.

2011: Doom the Way id Did (with dtwidmus.wad) and Double Impact are released.

2016: No End in Sight, Nihility: Infinite Teeth, Tech Gone Bad, Phobos Mission Control, Doom: Damnation, Alpha Accident: Terra Nova, No Sleep for the Dead, Absolutely Killed and UnAligned are released.

2019: SIGIL, Ultimate Doom the Way id Did and SINERGY are released. SIGIL has the majority of 2019 Doom points by far.

2022: Solar Struggle and Doom Beneath are released.

 

 

The Plutonia Experiment

 

Notable years:

2008: Plutonia 2 is released.

2011: Plutonia: Revisited Community Project, SkePLand and Combat Shock are released.

2021: Plutonia 7: Going to the Hell and Cydonia are released.

 

 

TNT: Evilution

 

Notable years:

2017: TNT: Revilution is released.

2022: TNT: Threevilution is released.

 

 

Other IWADs

 

Notable years:

2008: Standalone game Urban Brawl: Action Doom 2 is released.

2009: Standalone games Harmony and Freedoom: Phase 1 are released.

2014: Standalone games The Adventures of Square and Urban Brawl: Dead of Winter are released. Gene-Tech: Before the Storm and 1993 are released for any Doom. Shadows of Chronos for Hexen is released.

2017: Standalone game Rise of the Wool Ball is released.

2018: Standalone game REKKR and Ashes 2063 for any Doom are released.

2020: Faithless: Trilogy for Heretic and standalone game Shrine II are released.

Edited by m8f

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5 - Doom II: Hell on Earth by id Software

5 - The Ultimate Doom by id Software

5 - TNT: Evilution by TeamTNT

5 - Sigil by John Romero

5 - Doom Center by @Doorhenge

5 - Auger;Zenith by Doomer Boards Community

5 - Doom Zero by @DASI-I

5 - DIY by DIY Community

5 - Doom: The Golden Souls 2 by @Batandy

5 - Elementalism by @Bauul

5 - Antaresian Reliquary by @antares031

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50 most voted wads by points per map, excluding megawads and single-map wads:

Spoiler
  1. Suspended in Dusk

  2. Swim With the Whales
  3. Magnolia
  4. Lunatic
  5. SIGIL
  6. Hell Ground
  7. No Rest for the Living
  8. Heartland
  9. Unloved
  10. Sunder
  11. Stardate 20X6
  12. Deus Vult II
  13. Stardate 20X7
  14. Bauhaus
  15. Violence
  16. Urban Brawl: Dead of Winter
  17. Deus Vult
  18. Fractured Worlds
  19. Wormwood
  20. Antaresian Reliquary
  21. Vanguard
  22. The Sky May Be
  23. Vela Pax
  24. JUMPWAD
  25. Knee-Deep in ZDoom (KDiZD)
  26. Counterattack
  27. The Ultimate Torment & Torture (TUTNT)
  28. Dimension of the Boomed
  29. Finely Crafted Fetish Film
  30. Pirate Doom
  31. Equinox
  32. Winter's Fury
  33. Tangerine Nightmare
  34. Insanity's Edge
  35. Nihility: Infinite Teeth
  36. Lost Civilization
  37. Crumpets
  38. Doom: One
  39. Chex Quest
  40. Phobos: Anomaly Reborn
  41. Eternal DOOM IV: Return from Oblivion
  42. The Event Horizon
  43. A Fistful of Doom
  44. Arrival
  45. Mutabor
  46. Wormwood ]|[ - The Horror
  47. Action Doom
  48. Urban Brawl: Action Doom 2
  49. The Brotherhood of Ruin
  50. Paradise

 

50 most voted single-map wads:

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  1. Miasma
  2. Disturbia
  3. Breach
  4. Tech Gone Bad
  5. ZDoom Community Map Project II (ZDCMP2)
  6. Grove
  7. Elysion
  8. Hurt
  9. Nuts
  10. Arcadia Demade
  11. Phobos Mission Control
  12. Brigandine
  13. Castle of Evil
  14. Wow
  15. ZDoom Community Map Project: Take 1 (ZDCMP)
  16. Comatose
  17. Foursite
  18. No Chance
  19. Doom Center
  20. Extreme Terror
  21. City of the Damned: Apocalypse
  22. Doomsday of UAC
  23. Grime
  24. Redemption Of The Slain
  25. The Given
  26. Torment and Torture
  27. Hellrun
  28. Doom City
  29. Mangle
  30. Doomguy's Pimp Ventures
  31. Holy Hell
  32. The Beesong
  33. Monster Hunter Ltd Part I
  34. Monster Hunter Ltd Part II
  35. Odessa 1
  36. HSFC
  37. Eden
  38. Waterlab GZD
  39. Crossing Acheron
  40. Castle of the Damned
  41. Doom U.H.S.
  42. Judas
  43. SSL2
  44. Valhalla
  45. Dante's Gate
  46. Island
  47. SELFISH5
  48. The Ghoul's Forest 3
  49. Dawn of Reality
  50. Drip Feed

 

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On 10/8/2019 at 4:22 PM, m8f said:

Edited 22 minutes ago by m8f : updated (Geniraul, thanks!) 

 

No problem :) Thank you for keeping the DW community top WADs up to date!

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Updated list:

10 - Jumpwad

10 - Sunlust

10 - Elysion

5 - Wormwood: Expanded Universe

5 - Magnolia

5 - Deus Vult

1 - Grove

1 - Unloved

1 - No Chance

1 - Cyberdreams

1 - Saturnine Chapel

1 - Liminal Doom

1 - Scythe 2

1 - Black Room

1 - Italo-Doom

1 - Wormwood

 

Old list:

On 7/4/2022 at 7:34 PM, Maribo said:
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Jumpwad - 9
Sunlust - 9

Elysion - 9

Deus Vult - 5

Wormwood - 5
No Chance - 5

Lost Civilization - 4
Grove - 4
Unloved - 2

Pagodia - 2
Cyberdreams - 1

 

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On 8/2/2022 at 7:29 PM, Astro X said:

I'd like to add 1 point to each of these wads:

 

Doom Beneath (by Esperpento)

32 Piece Cliptucky Fried Chicken (by Clippy)

Slith (by Pistoolkip)

Doomkid's Mega Episode 1 (wip, I think)

Azazel's Second Descent (by Bloodbath Giraffe)

Sunlust

Stardate 20x6

Stardate 20x7

Swim With The Whales

 I'd like to add 1 point to the following wads:

 

Antaresian reliquary

Hardfest

Haste

Micro slaughter community project

Shades of azure (by KeaganDunn)

Solar struggle

Sunder

The Plutonia experiment

Wad.wad (by fai1025)

 

Edit: my 500th post :)

Edited by Astro X

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50 most voted wads by points per monster:

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  1. 13.000  Wow (obviously)
  2. 0.361    Grove
  3. 0.173    Cyberdreams
  4. 0.138    Breach
  5. 0.125    City of the Damned: Apocalypse
  6. 0.107    SIGIL
  7. 0.103    Tech Gone Bad
  8. 0.098    Arcadia Demade
  9. 0.097    Phobos Mission Control
  10. 0.091    Scythe
  11. 0.086    Suspended in Dusk
  12. 0.075    Brigandine
  13. 0.073    Ancient Aliens
  14. 0.071    Scythe 2
  15. 0.061    No Rest for the Living
  16. 0.057    Back to Saturn X E1: Get Out of My Stations (BTSX Episode 1)
  17. 0.052    Valiant
  18. 0.047    Hell Ground
  19. 0.047    Winter's Fury
  20. 0.045    Crumpets
  21. 0.045    Miasma
  22. 0.044    Going Down
  23. 0.039    Sunlust
  24. 0.038    Alien Vendetta
  25. 0.038    Elysion
  26. 0.038    Pirate Doom!
  27. 0.038    Eviternity
  28. 0.038    Lunatic
  29. 0.037    Bauhaus
  30. 0.035    Arch-Vile Jump
  31. 0.034    Comatose
  32. 0.031    Castle of Evil
  33. 0.031    Swim With the Whales
  34. 0.031    Magnolia
  35. 0.030    Plutonia 2
  36. 0.029    Hell Revealed
  37. 0.029    The Plutonia Experiment
  38. 0.028    Disturbia
  39. 0.027    Hurt
  40. 0.025    Doom the Way id Did (DTWiD)
  41. 0.024    Eternal Doom
  42. 0.024    Requiem
  43. 0.024    Congestion 1024
  44. 0.023    Violence
  45. 0.021    Memento Mori
  46. 0.021    Dimension of the Boomed
  47. 0.021    ZDoom Community Map Project II (ZDCMP2)
  48. 0.020    Doom II the Way id Did (D2TWiD)
  49. 0.020    Phobos: Anomaly Reborn
  50. 0.019    Memento Mori II

 

Monster count data collected by @Captain POLAND here (thanks!). It doesn't cover the whole Doomworld Community Top and I haven't transferred all the counts yet, so this list may be updated in the future.

 

Regarding all such mini-lists that appear in this thread from time to time: I'll post updates for them if there is demand.

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After a year and many wads later, I have decided to update the list again. And this time, expand the list to 15 wads.

 

6: Ancient Aliens

6: Valiant

6: Struggle: Antaresian Legacy

5: Heartland

5: Eviternity

5: Speed of Doom

5: Faithless/ Faithless Trilogy

3: TNT2: Devilution

3: TNT: Revilution

2: Plutonia 2

2: Good Morning Phobos

2: 1000 Lines 3 CP

2: Alien Vendetta

2: Going Down

1: Overboard

 

Older List:

Spoiler

10: Heartland

9: Valiant

8: Eviternity

7: Ancient Aliens

6: 1000 Lines 3 CP

5: Good Morning Phobos

4: Faithless/ Faithless Trilogy

3: Plutonia 2

2: TNT: Revilution

1: Alien Vendetta

 

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I should probably update this now that I'm getting back into Doom.

 

10 points to Japanese Community Project - Still my all-time favorite.

9 points to Struggle: Antaresian Legacy - Best combat in any WAD I've played, and it looks absolutely gorgeous too.

8 points to Eviternity.

7 points to Valiant.

6 points to Going Down.

5 points to Freedom: Phase 1.

4 points to Sigil.

3 points to Freedoom Phase 2.

2 points to Atmospheric Extinction.

1 point to Ancient Aliens.

 

Old list:
 

Spoiler

 

10 points to Japanese Community Project

9 points to Eviternity.

8 points to Valiant.

7 points to Going Down.

6 points to Freedom: Phase 1.

5 points to Sigil.

4 points to The Plutonia Experiment.

3 points to Freedom Phase 2.

2 points to Atmospheric Extinction

1 point to Ancient Aliens.

 

 

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This was difficult.

 

10 - Lost Civilization

5 - BTSX Episode 1

5 - Going Down

5 - Japanese Community Project

5 - Avactor: End of the Fifth Circle

3 - Brigandine

3 - Ray Mohawk 2: Ray Wreaks Havoc

3 - Overboard

3 - Temporal Tantrum

3 - Arrival

2 - Hadephobia

2 - Haste

2 - Literalism

1 - Exomoon

1 - Hydrosphere

1 - TNT 2: Devilution

1 - The Long Trek Back Home

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Might as well update this. I've thought about it and a rigid list of 'favorite to nth favorite' has only a loose fit for how I engage with the game, so the order is pretty much whatever after the first few and I just gave points to what I felt like. Also mixed in some authors who evade having their own projects or who I most appreciate for body of work rather than one map in particular. Comments on added.

 

Sunlust (5)
Lost Civilization (5)
Counterattack (5)
Ancient Aliens (5) / Heartland (5) / Valiant  
Machete (5) - favorite ever easy Doom + moderate-difficulty parts are very good too
Jumpwad (5) - vibe <3

Ozonia (5)
Abandon (5) 
Fractured Worlds (5)
Overboard (5) / Going Down - taught me maybe the most about how to make levels/sets

I.H.N.I. episode 1 - I adore m03's atmosphere + inventiveness
Tarnsman's Projectile Hell / Doom in Spain Only
Nihility
The Wayfarer 
Back to Basics
10x10 Project / Jaded - really fun light slaughter (or what I think of as light) 
lupinx-Kassman's assorted one-off maps - favorite approach to creativity
dobu's assorted one-off maps - keeps revolutionizing what is possible in Doom to me
AD_79's assorted one-off maps - top-notch craftmanship

Death-Destiny's assorted one-off maps - (also play Elysion)
The Adventures of Square
JPCP

Speed of Doom - when I did this before I overvalued consistent quality, which I've grown to feel is kind of silly 
Arrival

KDIKDIZD / BTSX e3 (what I've played of it) - KDIKDIZD: full of bad posting
No End in Sight - seeped into my mind and won't let go

180mpv - the Wilou and Roofi maps in this would be one of my favorite episodes 

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