It’s Doom, but wine in an art gallery instead of monsters in hell

Who knew Doomguy was so evolved? Doom: the gallery experience is a silly little recreation of Fatebut with wine and art instead of demons in hell. That’s possible play it for free directly on itch.io. Created by Filippo Meozzi and Liam Stone, Doom: the gallery experience is described as a parody of the ‘wonderfully pretentious world of gallery openings’. And it’s beautiful. Doomguy, donning goggles instead of a helmet, casually drinks wine and contemplates a variety of art from different cultures and eras. You’ll have some cash lying around that you can use to buy items in the gift shop, as well as hors d’oeuvres that will fill your cheese meter. (Essential!)

Doom: the gallery experience is actually none Fate WAD – a file that is essentially a modification of the game – but a recreation made with Construct 3, a browser-based game engine. One of the developers wrote in the itch.io comments that it was a student project. “I spent about seven hours researching E1M1 in the field in various versions of DOOM (the DOS version, the 2020s remake) and trying to nail down the level design and all the aesthetics (see bobbing, UI) exactly feel good,” one developer wrote on Newgrounds, where you can also play the game for free.

Everyone deserves a little classical art and music, even Doomguy.