Doom Shinobi turns Doom into an acrobatic action game where you’re a ninja

Stretching Doom to its conceptual limits.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.

You could make the case that almostallthe games of today are made with the tools Carmack and Romero forged back in 1994. We live in a post-Doom world, and even a wildly different game like the Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice owes a lot of its basic assumptions about level design and 3D space to Doom.

You could also, of course, just literally make a ninja game in Doom (or the open-sourceGZDoom, to be more specific,) which is just what modder Edy Pagaza has set out to do withDoom Shinobi, turning the classic FPS into a third-person action game complete with katanas, throwing stars, and wall running.

It’s an extremely impressive conversion, and looks like a fun time. The current release lets you play all the way through Doom’s initial campaign with the Shinobi arsenal, but Pagaza’s end goal is a full custom map pack built around the new gameplay. You can follow Doom Shinobi onModDBor the creator’sTwitterorPatreon.

In addition to Pagaza’s own audacity and creativity, I think the project really speaks to the talent of Doom’s original level designers—that their FPS maps can be turned into 3d action game levels with entirely new movement options without missing a beat.

Modders have done some incredible things with Doom over the years. I’ve been following the FEAR-inspired cyberpunk shooter conversion of Doom,Selaco, for some time, and Doomworld’s catalog ofthe best WADs of all timeis a great resource for the intrepid player looking to dive into the world of fan-made Doom. Doom Eternal is fine, but we must never forget the simple fact that Doomiseternal.

The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals

Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.

Ted has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister’s copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer. He is obsessed with all things CRPG and CRPG-adjacent, but has also covered esports, modding, and rare game collecting. When he’s not playing or writing about games, you can find Ted lifting weights on his back porch.

Take-Two’s CEO generously calls the cataclysmically bad Borderlands movie ‘disappointing’, but it still ended up helping sales of the games

Barney Calhoun goes to Xen in Black Mesa: Blue Shift’s latest chapter, coming later this month

SteelSeries Apex Pro TKL Gen 3 review