The battle is over. One ship with a skeleton crew of warriors is all the left alive. barely. You included.
The war has been going bad, and in a desperate move the king apparently decided to your clan on a suicide mission. The ocean growls, threatening to make it a certainty.
The Earth under the waves rises up through the deck of the boat. You sink.
Between breaths you see smoke pour from your home island. The battle isn't over.
REKKR is a total conversion mod for Doom created by Revae.
The game takes place in a fantasy world that feels vaguely Norse or Celtic. You are a viking warrior, and your family and hometown were massacred by hellish creatures. Now you set out to find revenge.
It can be downloaded here
, and requires a copy of Ultimate Doom or Freedoom Phase 1 to play.
In September 2020, this mod was added as one of the official addons.
In October 2021, it became a standalone game, available to buy on Steam, complete with a new 4th episode.
REKKR contains examples of:
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer: In E2M2, you explore the sewer of the city. It's huge and filled with water, poisonous liquid, and lava.
- Bilingual Bonus: REKKR is Old Norse for "warrior".
- Bloodstained Glass Windows: E1M3 takes place in chapel, and this place is full of enemies.
- Censored Child Death: The protagonist's newborn baby was killed alongside their mother, but you can only see a destroyed crib in your home.
- Chest Monster: There are mimics that disguise themselves to health bottles.
- Control Room Puzzle: Two of the puzzles present in the Secret Level of the second episode are Control Room Puzzles. All the puzzles, including these two, are completely optional, but solving them will unlock passageways with lots of goodies to gather (and will also spare the player the need of facing hordes of enemies which appear in case a mistake is made).
- In the first, there are five blue switches placed respectively in five columns, which in turn surround a 3x3 grid that displays special drawings, and in turn those drawings are also represented by the aforementioned columns. In the east and south sides of the grid are purple-colored luminous chevrons. Each drawing in the grid represents a number, and the chevrons displayed at the end of a line of drawings represent the sum of the numbers provided by the drawings. This effectively results in a system of equations where the player can figure out the value represented by each drawing, and therefore the number of times each switch associated with its column's displayed drawing has to be pressed.
- The second puzzle makes use of a solution that can be figured out in a previous room that is otherwise unimportant. In that room, there are eight switches, and each one turns on a specific number of purple chevrons in the wall. It turns out the amounts are not random, as they're powers of two, going from 1 (2⁰) to 128 (2⁷). The player has to memorize how many chevrons are lit by each switch, because this indicates the order in which the eye switches in the room with the actual puzzle have to be pressed.
- Doomed Hometown: Hellish creatures destroyed the protagonist's hometown and slaughtered its residents, and many of them were transformed to zombie-like monsters.
- Fantasy Gun Control: Averted, two of REKKR's weapons are the Steelshot Launcher, a shotgun with multiple barrels and a crank for loading new rounds, and the Soul Launcher, a gun that literally shoots souls at enemies.
- The Goomba: Former Humans are zombified and mostly naked residents, and they are the weakest enemy in this game. They have low health and their only attack is hitting you with their hands.
- Grenade Launcher: The Runic Staff works like a magical grenade launcher; It launches runes that explode.
- Humanoid Abomination: Before the protagonist returns into his home, residents in your hometown were turned into horrific monsters.
- Horny Vikings: The protagonist looks like a typical viking. He wears a horned helmet, too.
- Late to the Tragedy: Everyone in the home island of the protagonist was killed before the game starts. He travels to another island to seek help after the end of Episode 1, but he eventually find that the same thing happened in the said island.
- Mook Medic: Flying eyes can resurrect dead monsters by touching their corpse.
- Short-Range Shotgun: The Steelshot Launcher deals good damage, but it's inaccurate.
- Updated Re-release: REKKR: Sunken Land, a standalone version of the game on Steam, which doesn't require a copy of Doom to run, and adds a brand new fourth episode.
- Videogame Cruelty Potential: There are wandering jackalopes. They don't attack you, but you can slaughter them for some health.
- When Trees Attack: Treebeasts are living tree stumps, and they shoot projectiles at you. They often disguise themselves as a normal-looking tree.
- Your Soul Is Mine!: You can harvest human souls from killed humanoid enemies. You can use it as ammo for your bow and soul launcher.
