⬆️ Doomworld Community Top WADs of All Time (resurrected)

[dosboot]

I'm updating my list:

 

    10 Doom 2 the Way Id Did
    10 Plutonia AD (plut_ad_112616.wad)
    10 Lunar Catastrophe
    10 Sigil
    10 The Ledge (pavledge.zip)
    1 Ultimate Doom the Way Id Did
    1 Doom the Way Id Did
    1 Incineration
    1 Dystopia 3
    1 Requiem

 

Honorable Mentions only:

    Waste Abandonment (pavwaste.zip)
    Thy Flesh Turned into a draft-excluder
    Brutana (pc_brut.zip)

    No End In Sight
 

[m8f]

Arbys550, dosboot, thank you for updating your votes!
Azure_Horror, BohdanZPM, thank you for voting!

 

The tally in the OP has been updated.

[SCF]

Hope you don't mind that I'm updating my list again after less than a month.

On 5/23/2021 at 12:42 AM, SCF said:

This is hard, and I'd have to replay a lot of wads to get a really accurate ranking, but this should be close enough.

 

10: Eviternity
10: Sunlust
9: Sunder
6: Counterattack
6: Antaresian Reliquary
5: Back to Saturn X Episode 2
4: Ancient Aliens
2: Dimension of the Boomed
1: Hell Ground
1: Preacher
1: Micro-Slaughter Community Project

 

10: Eviternity
8: Sunder (-1)

7: Sunlust (-3)
6: Antaresian Reliquary

6: Going Down (New)
5: Counterattack (-1)

4: Back to Saturn X Episode 2 (-1)
4: Ancient Aliens
2: Dimension of the Boomed
1: Hell Ground
1: Preacher
1: Micro-Slaughter Community Project

 

I revisted Sunlust recently, and when I gave it a 10 I was clearly only remembering the highlights. It's still a great wad, but I wouldn't call it my favorite one to play. The early levels are great fun, and the later ones have some impressively clever design, but there were still parts that I didn't really enjoy playing. Maps 13-15(+31/32) were kind of a slog and some fights are just too much for me.

 

I also played Going Down for the first time, and it's a work of mad genius. The level of detail is amazing, and I was blown away by the dynamic environments (like in Insanity). Cyriak made great use of the limited space with his combat as well. On the other hand, some of the maps are just cruel or obtuse, and not very fun. But overall it was a really memorable experience and well worth playing.

 

In order to make space for Going Down, I had to take some points away from a few other entries but no significant changes there.

[Ragu]

I never really got into PWADs until recently; I've been starting from 1994 so I can experience the early days and not spoil myself with the refinements of 27 years (also to gradually get good enough at Doom that I can handle the new stuff). This is 1994/1995 so far, so is very subject to change as I progress through the years:

The Enigma Episode - 10
Aliens TC - 9
Gather2 - 8
Memento Mori - 8 (probably will go higher, but I'm only on MAP08)
Galaxia (The Ultimate Czech Level) - 6
The Artifact - 5
Obituary - 4
Nostromo's Run - 3
The Evil Unleashed - 1
Doomsday of UAC - 1

[Deadwing]

On 5/7/2020 at 11:20 AM, Deadwing said:

Plutonia - 10

Eviternity - 8
Mano Laikas - 8
SIGIL - 6
Scythe - 6
Jenesis - 6
Struggle - 6
Deathless - 2
Ancient Aliens - 2
Plutonia 2 - 1

 

Small Update

 

Plutonia - 10

Eviternity - 6
Mass Extinction - 6
Struggle - 6
Running Late 2 - 6
Scythe - 5
Jenesis - 5

BTSX2 - 5
Ancient Aliens - 4
Plutonia 2 - 2

[lokbustam257]

Long list coming

 

Spoiler

10 - Ultimate Doom 2

 

10 - Ancient Aliens

 

7 - TNT: Revilution

 

9 - Scythe 2

 

7 - Wonderful Doom

 

10 - Antaresian Reliquary

 

5 - Plutonia (does this count?)

 

5 - Doom 2 TWID

 

5 - Doom TWID

 

8 - Struggle: Antaresian Legacy

 

3 - Slaughterfest 3

 

7 - Speed of Doom

 

9 - Sunlust

 

10 - Valiant

 

4 - JPCP

 

5 - Scythe

 

10 - Heartland

 

9 - Rowdy Rudy 2

 

7 - Going Down

 

3 - Hell Revealed 1 and 2

 

4 - TNT: Evilution

 

8 - BTSX EP1

 

6 - SIGIL (Honorable mention to Hate Machine by Jimmy for stuck in my mind for 4 months)

 

6 - Doom 2

 

5 - Doom (registered)

 

4 - Ultimate Doom: Thy Flesh Consumed (again, does commercial count?)

 

6 - No Rest for the Living

 

4 - The WOOO series by (probably) mrthejoshmon and others

 

8 - Alien Vendetta

 

Edited June 16, 2021 by lokbustam257

[m8f]

@lokbustam257, 29 WADs is too much, max is 20 WADs. 194 points is too much, max is 55 points. Yes, commercial WADs do count. Hell Revealed are two WADs, you have to vote for them separately.

[Uncle 80]

Some more points for top dogs, and a couple for some under(?)dogs

 

Alien Vendetta : 7

Requiem : 6

Eternal Doom (III) : 6

BTSX E1 : 5

BTSX E2 : 5

Memento Mori II : 5

Vanguard : 5

Dimensions Of The Boomed : 5

Ancient Aliens : 5

Batman Doom : 4

Osiris TC : 2

[lokbustam257]

13 hours ago, m8f said:

@lokbustam257, 29 WADs is too much, max is 20 WADs. 194 points is too much, max is 55 points. Yes, commercial WADs do count. Hell Revealed are two WADs, you have to vote for them separately.

ok then, here's the updated one:

 

10 - Ultimate Doom 2

10  - Ancient Aliens

3 - WOOO 2

5 - WOOO.wad

7 - No Rest for the Living

4 - Hell Revealed 1

4 - Hell Revealed 2

5 - Sigil

8 - BTSX EP1

[m8f]

SCF, Deadwing, thank you for updating your votes!
Ragu, Uncle 80, lokbustam257, thank you for voting!
lokbustam257, 10+10+3+5+7+4+4+5+8=56, which is > 55. I subtracted 1 point from BTSX EP1 because it the last in the list.

The tally in the OP has been updated. 

[lokbustam257]

28 minutes ago, m8f said:

SCF, Deadwing, thank you for updating your votes!
Ragu, Uncle 80, lokbustam257, thank you for voting!
lokbustam257, 10+10+3+5+7+4+4+5+8=56, which is > 55. I subtracted 1 point from BTSX EP1 because it the last in the list.

The tally in the OP has been updated. 

Eh, a bit nitpicking, but you placed 5 to WOOO 2 instead of 1, and vice versa

[m8f]

Fixed. Thanks for noticing!

[Dragonfly]

I'd like to amend my listing.

 

10. Scythe 2

9. Going Down

8. Congestion 1024

7. Brigandine

6. Struggle: Anteresian Legacy
5. Ultimate Simplicity
4. Pirate Doom

3. A Boy & His Barrel

2. Winter's Fury

1. Action Doom 1

[roadworx]

i'm updating my ratings

 

alien vendetta: 10

memento mori 2: 7

plutonia 2: 6

scythe 2: 5

going down: 5

obituary: 4

demonfear: 4

eviternity: 4

nilla: 3

coffee break episode 1: 2

kama sutra: 2

jenesis: 2

polygon base: 1

[Li'l devil]

I haven't played many wads, and I forgot a lot of what I played, so I'll just post everything I still remember, heh.

STRAIN - 10
1 Monster Megawad - 8
TNT: Evilution - 6

Back to Saturn X Episode 1 - 3

Balls - 3

Bloody Steel - 3

Enjay's Marine Assault - 3

Ghoul's Forest 3 - 3

Knee-Deep in ZDoom - 3

Sunlust - 3

Alien Vendetta - 2

Ancient Aliens - 2

Requiem - 2

5till L1 Complex - 1

Scuba Steve's: Action Doom - 1

Congestion: 64 - 1

The Sky May Be - 1

 

Meh, I need to play more wads...

 

Edit: changed my opinion after replaying a couple of these wads. It looks like I'll have to update this once more soon, since I'm planning to playing many new wads and replaying these ones as well.

Edited June 20, 2021 by Li'l devil

[m8f]

Dragonfly, roadworx, thank you for updating your votes!

Li'l devil, thank you for voting!

 

The tally in the OP has been updated. 

 

I added base IWADs to the spreadsheet. Not sure about adding it to the list, it may be too much clutter already. I realized that Doom II IWAD not only is most used, it is actually used by 79% of WADs in the list! And this is not counting TNT and Plutonia. Three most voted Doom I WADs are Sigil, No End in Sight and Doom the Way id Did.

Edited June 21, 2021 by m8f : formatting test

[TheGreenZap]

Rowdy Rudy 2: Powertrip - 10
TNT - Revilution - 6
Community Chest 4 - 6
No End In Sight - 6
Breach - 6
Bourgeois Megawad - 6
Scythe 2 - 4
UAC Ultra - 2
Area 51 - 2
Bermuda Triangle - 2

Edited June 22, 2021 by TheGreenZap

[vdgg]

16 hours ago, TheGreenZap said:

Rowdy Rudy 2: Powertrip - 12

 

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

you can vote for 10 to 20 of your favorite WADs and you have up to 55 points to allocate any way you wish, with a maximum of 10 points for any particular release.

 

[TheGreenZap]

6 hours ago, vdgg said:

 

 

 

Oh man, I'm an idiot! Thank you for pointing that out.

Fixed.

 

[whybmonotacrab]

Valiant - 10

Scythe 2 - 8

Paradise - 8

Crumpets - 7

Eviternity - 7

Struggle: Antaresian Legacy - 7

Plutonia 2 - 4

Hellground - 2

Khorus Speedy Shit - 1

Back to Saturn X E1 - 1 

 

[dei_eldren]

On 4/15/2021 at 9:55 AM, dei_eldren said:

SiGil - 8

Moonblood - 7

Doom Zero - 7

TNT Goes Boom! Episode 1 - 7

Endless Torture - 7

Hellish Rogues - 6

Lunar Outpost 359 - 5

180 Minutes Pour Vivre - 3

Eviternity - 3

Kama Sutra - 2

 

Oh dear, i see no option but to update.  i'm also going to have to dilute, thus increasing value of a single point, since i can't keep the number of WADs at ten only anymore.

 

SiGil - 7

Moonblood - 6

Ozonia - 6

Sign of Torment - 6

TNT Goes Boom! Episode 1 - 5

Lunar Outpost 359 - 5

Endless Torture - 4

Hellish Rogues - 4
TNT: Revilution - 4 (surprised by the consistent quality from so many great mappers, might be first community project i'm playing)

Eternal Doom - 3

Kama Sutra - 3

Eviternity - 2

 

Honorable mentions, that i wish i could include on the list, but don't want to detract even more points from the very top ones:

Hell Revealed

Scythe

Serenity

Favillesco Episode 1: Genuflected on Io (plan to play all of Monti's work based on this)

Exomoon (open combat style that i still find a bit too difficult, killed too much by far away enemies)

180 Minutes Pour Vivre (i love most of it, but parts of it is just too brutal to fit into the top for me)

 

It's also been nice to see Si666il steadily rising in the rankings!

[m8f]

TheGreenZap, thank you for voting! You still have 5 points left.

whybmonotacrab, thank you for voting!

dei_eldren, thank you for updating your votes!

 

The tally in the OP has been updated.

[dosboot]

I'm updating my list again:

    10 Doom 2 the Way Id Did
    10 Plutonia AD (plut_ad_112616.wad)
    10 Arrival
    10 Lunar Catastrophe
    10 Sigil
    1 Ultimate Doom the Way Id Did
    1 Thy Flesh Turned into a draft-excluder
    1 Incineration
    1 Dystopia 3
    1 Syringe
   
Honorable Mentions only:
    Requiem
    Brutana (pc_brut.zip)
    No End In Sight

    The Ultimate NMD
 

Edited June 29, 2021 by dosboot

[m8f]

dosboot, thanks for updating your votes!

 

The tally in the OP has been updated.

[Xeogred]

10 Alien Vendetta

6 Valiant

5 Arrival
5 Back to Saturn X EP1
5 Cydonia
5 Hellbound
5 TNT Revilution

3 Community Chest 4

3 Doom II the Way id Did
2 No Rest for the Living

2 Lunar Catastrophe

2 Sigil
2 Syringe

 

Honorable Mentions:
- Ancient Aliens
- Back to Saturn X EP2

- Community Chest 3
- Fava Beans
- Japanese Community Project
- Plutonia

- Plutonia 2

- TNT Evilution

- Auger;Zenith

 

---

 

The big hitters for me this year would be Arrival and Cydonia. Syringe was really cool. Lunar Catastrophe is an excellent Doom 1 megawad as well. This was also my second time playing Doom II the Way id Did and it feels like a grower like Doom II itself for me, great stuff.

 

The rest I've played over the years and those look like a good set of favorites. I wanted to crown one champion so that's Alien Vendetta, even though it's admittedly been over a decade since I played it. Whenever I look up videos though, I bet it'll hold up just fine for me. Valiant is my second favorite.

 

I love both Ancient Aliens and Back to Saturn X EP2, but I gave the points to Valiant and X EP1 in those cases. They win out by a bit, but I'd consider these kind of a combo deal. If you like one, definitely check out the other. First time playing Fava Beans this year in 2021 and wow, it holds up. Then it was fascinating to replay No Rest for the Living and notice, it kind of feels like Doom II Fava Beans. Similar design in a lot of the maps, tons of tucked away secrets and non-linear paths/keys, etc. Interesting. Japanese Community Project definitely brought some fresh and creative ideas to the table and left a mark. As for Plutonia, I finally did a pistol start UV run of it this year and it's still this awesome love/hate relationship to me, but I think I really would call it a favorite that holds up. I just want to give the points to other fan projects over the years now. And Plutonia 2 is pretty solid, maybe it'll grow on me with another replay someday. I still have a soft spot for the original TNT, since it's packaged in with a lot of Doom releases I've replayed it a lot. Real mixed bag but it's comfort food. Revilution is definitely a more refined and consistent package with killer music.

Edited July 10, 2021 by Xeogred

[Nembras]

My current list is very temporary due to the fact that there are many wads that I haven't played yet that I'm convinced will make my top 10. I will definitely change my votes as I get to play those wads over time.

 

10 - Valiant
10 - Doom 2 the Way ID Did
10 - Suspended in Dusk
8 - Strange Aeons
7 - Scythe 2
5 - A Fistful of Doom
5 - Shrine II

[m8f]

@Nembras, I cannot accept your list until you

On 10/8/2019 at 9:22 PM, m8f said:

vote for 10 to 20 of your favorite WADs

 

[m8f]

Xeogred, thank you for voting!

 

Updated the OP.

[Michael Jensen]

Old: 

Spoiler

Icarus: Alien Vanguard - 10

Daedalus: Alien Defense - 10

Eternal Doom - 8

Equinox - 7

2002: A Doom Odyssey - 6

TNT: Revilution - 5

THT: Threnody - 3

Sunlust - 2

Going Down - 2

Double Impact- 2 

 

Update:

Icarus: Alien Vanguard - 10

Equinox - 10

Eternal Doom - 10

Daedalus: Alien Defense - 10

Cleimos II - 10

Sunlust - 1

Galaxia - 1

Echelon - 1

Going Down - 1

THT: Threnody - 1

[m8f]

A.H. Sankhatayan, thanks for updating your points!

 

Tally updated.