Doom II: Pirate Doom (2012/2013)

March 11, 2022

Pirate Doom has to be one of the most ridiculous yet ambitious custom Doom WADs that I have played. It comes across more of a total conversion than a level set, with a complete overhaul of the entire game to feature pirate-based landscapes and levelling, weapons and most hilariously, demons. Fighting the swashbuckling hordes genuinely had me in stitches at points, especially when a new monster was introduced. Some of the new game mechanics are class too, like the underwater movement for example.

Some of the levels are not far from TES II: Daggerfall in their labyrinthine scale, which made finding keys etc. a bit of a slog, but for the most part, this is an amazing example of what the Doom community can offer.