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Steam👍 97%· 15KRAWG👍 88%· 487MC94OC87· 37
Year 1996Dev id Software · SEGAPlaytime ~1hOn PC · PS · Xbox
✓ Same family of first-person shooters: shooter, first-person shooting and horror tension
≠ Where it differs: brings ranged combat, setting scifi and setting medieval, while skipping stealth mechanics
id's follow-up to Doom, and the first with true 3D movement — rocket jumps, full vertical aim, and a Lovecraftian gloom scored by Nine Inch Nails. The movement still feels quicker than most modern shooters. Long-time players tend to prefer a source port to the official re-release, which quietly altered difficulty tuning and is treated as a compromised preservation job.
Where it drifts furthest from Midnight Murder Club: combat.
It predates Midnight Murder Club by 29 years, with what that implies technically.
Genre100Tone100Visuals100Game mode93Setting59Combat36
