History Videogame / DoomTheRoguelike

Kornel is working on a SpiritualSuccessor titled ''Jupiter Hell''. It has a trailer on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFXzY0AUsU4 Youtube]], and a Kickstarter campaign to fund development will start on November 15th, 2016.

** Some levels have levers that could have a number of effects when pulled; one of these is detonating all barrels present in a level at the same time. Which can be great if the resulting explosions damage or kill enemies...not so much if [[LostForever rare weapons/items get destroyed]].

Kornel is working on a SpiritualSuccessor titled ''Jupiter Hell''. It has a trailer on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFXzY0AUsU4 Youtube]], and a Kickstarter campaign to fund development is on the way.

** The most consistently useful assembly in the game? Plain old Tactical Boots. They provide absolutely no protection to acid and lava whatsoever nor have any special effects. But all that is required to make them is a pair of Agility mods on a pair of common Steel Boots, while they provide a very valuable 15% boost to your movement speed. Since you can usually just avoid walking in harmful fluids, there's little downside to wearing them, leaving no reason to wear them nearly all the time unless you're lucky enough to get boots with an even greater movespeed bonus. Pre-0.9.9.7 versions of the game even had them grant you a 10% bonus to your dodging rate, but Tactical Boots were deemed so ridiculously low cost and effective that the dodge bonus was removed.

** The Napalm Launcher. On one hand, you're [[LavaAddsAwesome drowning everything in lava]]. On the other hand, [[DidntThinkThisThrough you're drowning everything, including powerups, items and the path to the exit, in lava]].
** Also, the Acid Spitter. Twice as powerful as the napalm launcher (it does up to 100 damage!), but in addition to spreading acid around it can only be reloaded by walking around in acid for ten turns to scoop it back up. The Lava Armor can only be repaired by walking around in lava and unlike the acid spitter it doesn't even reduce the damage to compensate, but offers insane protection against explosives.

* TooDumbToLive: The demons will run through an open pool of [[LavaPit lava]] or [[HollywoodAcid acid]] if it happens to be between them and the player.

* DoNotRunWithAGun: Subjecting the player to this trope as well.
** Inverted with the Scout's Gunrunner trait... in which case, the only way to fire while moving is specifically while running.

* TrueFinalBoss: Getting to this TrueFinalBoss is a LuckBasedMission.
** Not so as of 9.9.2 because of the rewards which come with completing certain bonus levels on your way down.

** There's also the message you get if you're unfortunate (or stupid) enough to hit a lever that floods the entire level with lava: "Oh shit, oh shit, OH SHIT!"

* RareGuns: A lucky player may find guns like the Pancor Jackhammer or a Minigun, or even rare ''fictional'' guns like the aforementioned [[{{Hellsing}} Jackal]].

** The Shamblers, which are presumably the same as the ones from VideoGame/QuakeI. They're also resistant to explosives, just like Quake's Shamblers.
*** They also seem to have taken a page from Lovecraftian Dimensional Shamblers (which were alluded to in an Exit to DOS taunt in the original Doom), because they can teleport at will, making it impossible to run from them, and making cover unreliable.

** The Storm Bolter and Burst Cannon from Warhammer 40K make an appearance.

** The Spider Mastermind as well.

* EarlyGameHell: In the Angel of Berserk challenge (where you're restricted to melee weapons only), the game tends to be at its hardest early on, where the lack of equipment and levels really hurts a pure melee build, though the difficulty tapes off greatly once you get the Chainsaw and some levels. This was especially bad in early versions of DoomRL, where the player didn't get a guaranteed Combat Knife at the end of the first level (and would thus have to go through the first two or so levels with just their fists).

* FisticuffsBoss: The Angel of Death, as the arena it spawns in only allows melee weapons. Piece of cake if you're specialized in melee, not so much otherwise.

* MookMaker: Pain Elementals, which as per the original Doom spawn Lost Souls. New to this game are the Agony Elemental, which can spit out both Lost Souls as well as Pain Elementals, and the TrueFinalBoss [[spoiler:John Carmack]], who in addition to being as robust a tank as the Spider Mastermind, also has the nasty ability to summon a eight mooks around itself at the same time. Depending on how hurt it is, they can range from measly Lost Souls all the way to [[EliteMook Barons of Hell, Mancubi and Arachnotrons]].

** The Mortuary is the most infamous case: Five (or more, on higher difficulties) [[AnimateDead Arch-Viles]], and hundreds of randomly selected corpses (which could be anything from [[{{Mooks}} Former Humans]] to [[DemonicSpiders Mancubi]]).

* AnimateDead: Arch-Viles, as always.

* CripplingOverspecialisation: Arachnotrons, in a sense. With their plasma guns and rapid-fire abilities, it's hard to tank or dodge them, but if you can get into close combat range, they're practically helpless.
* DesignItYourselfEquipment: Since version 0.9.9.2, certain combinations of equipment and mods can result in special equipment being created. Some of them are so-so upgrades for your normal gadgets of destruction, others are true behemoths that will help you greatly in raining fiery death on the hordes of hell.

* DoNotSpoilThisEnding: Anyone reading spoilers knows about the TrueFinalBoss, and the official wiki provides the full details on how to get a [[GoldenEnding full win]] instead of a standard win. However, a couple of the secret items, Dragonslayer and the Berserker Armor, require the player to [[GuideDangIt meet specific conditions]] to pick up and use, and the few people in the community who have figured it out have all agreed not to reveal the secret. The same goes for the highest player rank, Apostle.

* RPGElements: You get to pick a "trait" every level, which have effects ranging from "more HP" to "reload your shotgun while you move".
* SecretLevel: There are "special levels", signified by their entrances having red stairs, that are completely optional for entering and completing for a standard win. These levels are non random (or have a few spots of specific randomness) with a gimmick that the player must overcome (such as Hell's Arena having three different waves of enemies the player must defeat), often having a boss at the end, and great rewards for the player should they complete the stage. In difficulty, they run the gamut from BreatherLevel (Halls of Carnage), to BrutalBonusLevel (The Mortuary), to being [[UnwinnableByDesign unwinnable]] if the player did not come into the level with the required items (The Wall), though in this case, unwinnable just means the player can't get 100% kills and the level's max reward. The difficulty of a special level can also greatly depend on the build a player is running (City of Skulls is a BreatherLevel for Shotgun builds, while being a BrutalBonusLevel for Pistol builds).

** There's also the message you get if you hit a lever that floods the entire level with lava: "Oh shit, oh shit, OH SHIT!"

** There's also the message you get if you hit a switch that turns the floor in the entire level into lava: "Oh shit, oh shit, OH SHIT!"

* ChainsawGOOD: Not only does it deal incredible damage, you get a free berserk pack effect the first time you pick it up.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: One of the messages that can occur on entering a new level is "Where the hell is the way out of here?" If by chance the exit stairs are within sight of your starting position, this is followed by a silly message as your character notices it.

* MagikarpPower: The pistol is the earliest and weakest weapon in the game, and better weapons become available very quickly. However, if you take a couple of levels in the "Son of a Gun" trait, you can become a "Dualgunner", which lets you wield and reload ''two'' pistols at the same time. Combined with the pistol prowess you gain from all these traits, the pistol suddenly becomes a surprisingly deadly weapon.

* DoNotSpoilThisEnding: Anyone reading spoilers knows about the TrueFinalBoss, and the official wiki provides the full details on how to get a [[GoldenEnding full win]] instead of a standard win. However, a couple of the secret items, Dragonslayer and the Berserker Armor, require the player to [[GuideDangIt meet specific conditions]] to pick up and use, and the few people in the community who know have figured it out have all agreed not to reveal the secret. The same goes for the highest player rank, Apostle.

* ExplodingBarrels: It wouldn't be Doom without 'em. Most of them are just Fuel Barrels that simply explode and could take out doors or a wall if pushed near them. A later update introduced 2 more types of barrels, Acid and Napalm, that could leave Acid or Lava tiles after they explode. The latter must be that [[{{Contra}} Contra 3]] napalm.

** The Shamblers, which are presumably the same as the ones from VideoGame/QuakeI. They're also resistant to explosives, just like Quake's Shamblers. They also seem to have taken a page from Lovecraftian Dimensional Shamblers (which were alluded to in an Exit to DOS taunt in the original Doom), because they can teleport at will, making it impossible to run from them, and making cover unreliable.

** The Shamblers, which are presumably the same as the ones from VideoGame/QuakeI. They're also resistant to explosives, just like Quake's Shamblers.

* MookMaker: Pain Elementals, which as per the original Doom spawns Lost Souls, and the Agony Elemental, which spits out more Pain Elementals. In addition there is the TrueFinalBoss [[spoiler:John Carmack]], who in addition to being as robust a tank as the Spider Mastermind, also has the nasty ability to summon a full eight [[EliteMooks Barons of Hell]]. ''At the same time''.

** Taken further if you get this trait ''and'' you're lucky enough to find a [[{{Equilibrium}} Grammaton Cleric Beretta]].

* ShoutOut: Some of the traits are headed by quotes from the infamous [[Comicbook/{{Doom}} Doom comic]]; many of the unique weapons such as the [[{{Equilibrium}} Grammaton Cleric Beretta]] or the [[VideoGame/QuakeII Ra]][[VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena il]][[VideoGame/QuakeIV gun]].