Who knew Doomguy was so cultured? Doom: The Gallery Experience is a silly little recreation of Doom, but with wine and art instead of demons in hell. You can play it for free right 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 glasses instead of a helmet, casually sips wine and contemplates a variety of art from different cultures and eras. You’ll find some money laying around, used to purchase items in the gift shop, as well as hors d’oeuvres that’ll fill up your cheese meter. (Essential!)
Doom: The Gallery Experience isn’t actually a Doom WAD — a file that is essentially a mod of the game — but a recreation made using 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 7 hours researching E1M1 on the field across different versions of DOOM (the DOS version, the 2020s remake) and trying to nail down the level design and make all the aesthetics (view bobbing, UI) feel just right,” one developer wrote on Newgrounds, where you can also play the game for free.
Everyone deserves a little classic art and music, even Doomguy.
