enhanced clone of the classic first-person shooter Doom

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Arch Linux (recommended)

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This is a fork of prboom+ with many new features, including: * Heretic, Hexen, MBF21, and Doom-in-Hexen support * In-game console and scripting * Full controller support * Palette-based lightmode for opengl * Debugging features for testing * Strict mode for speedrunning * Various quality of life improvements * Advanced tools for TASing * Rewind DSDA-Doom requires game data to run. Free game data is available in the freedoom package. Commercial game data can be packaged using game-data-packager. DSDA-Doom supports all flavors of Doom, including The Ultimate Doom, Doom 2 and Final Doom as well as Chex(R) Quest, HacX, Freedoom: Phase 1 and Phase 2 and FreeDM. Additionally, DSDA-Doom supports Heretic and Hexen.

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License
GPL-2.0-or-later AND BSD-3-Clause AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain AND Zlib

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Available via
Arch Linux (2) · Debian · Ubuntu · Fedora · openSUSE · Void Linux · Gentoo · Nixpkgs
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AUR, AUR (Git build), Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Nixpkgs, openSUSE, Void Linux, Gentoo (Candidate build)

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11 independent sources agree
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October 12, 2026
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SourceNameVersionBuilt byLicenseDescription
AURdsda-doom0.30.1-2—GPL-2.0-or-laterFork of PrBoom+ with extra tooling for demo recording and playback, with a focus on speedrunning
AUR (Git build)dsda-doom-gitr9539.e443ff7a3-1—GPLFork of PrBoom+ with extra tooling for demo recording and playback, with a focus on speedrunning (git version)
Debiandsda-doom0.29.0+dfsg-1Distribution build—Doom source port with a focus on demo recording and speedrunning
Ubuntudsda-doom0.29.4+dfsg-4Distribution build—Doom source port with a focus on demo recording and speedrunning
Fedoradsda-doom0.29.4Distribution buildGPL-2.0-or-later AND BSD-3-Clause AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain AND ZlibSpeedrun-oriented Doom source port
Nixpkgsdsda-doom0.30.0Distribution buildGPL-2.0-or-laterAdvanced Doom source port with a focus on speedrunning, successor of PrBoom+
openSUSEdsda-doom0.29.4Distribution buildGPL-2.0-or-laterDOOM source port with Hexen support and demo compatibility
Void Linuxdsda-doom0.29.3_1Distribution buildGPL-2.0-or-laterFork of prboom+ with extra tooling for demo recording and playback
Gentoo (Candidate build)dsda-doom0.29.4Distribution buildGPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-with-disclosure AND CC-BY-3.0 AND CC0-1.0 AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND MIT AND public-domainSuccessor to the PrBoom+ Doom source port
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