Hexen
Hexen: Beyond Heretic is a 1995 first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software and published by id Software for MS-DOS. It is the sequel to 1994's Heretic, and the second game in Raven Software's "Serpent Riders" trilogy, which culminated with Hexen II. The title comes from the German noun Hexen, which means "witches", and/or the verb hexen, which means "to cast a spell". Game producer John Romero stated that a third, unreleased game in this series was to be called Hecatomb.
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Original game imageGZDoom is a modder-friendly source port of the Doom engine covering Doom, Heretic, and Hexen, with OpenGL and Vulkan rendering support.
Platforms:WindowsLinux
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Updated3 months ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2013
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A source port that reproduces the original DOS Doom, Heretic, Hexen, and Strife with their original bugs intact on modern systems.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
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LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2009
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Original game imageA modern GPLv3 source port continuing the ZDoom/GZDoom lineage for Doom, Heretic, and Hexen.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
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Release2025
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Crispy Doom is a limit-removing Doom source port with higher resolution, widescreen, and uncapped framerate, staying demo-compatible.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
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Updated2 months ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2014
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A portable, enhanced source port supporting Doom I/II, Heretic, and Hexen, built as cross-platform C++ libraries.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
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Updated5 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2011
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Original game imageA client/server Doom source port for Internet multiplayer with up to 255 players and many competitive game modes.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
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Updated1 month ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2015
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Original game imageAn advanced Doom-engine source port descended from SMMU, built with SDL2 and actively maintained across major platforms.
Platforms:WindowsOSX
Stars268
Updated2 months ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2014
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A pure Java source port of Doom, nearly complete but still missing network multiplayer.
Platforms:Linux
Stars217
Updated9 months ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2015
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Original game imageRaven Software's official release of the Hexen source code, published for learning and modification; the DMX sound library is excluded.
Platforms:DOS
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Updated13 years ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2013
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HHexen is a source port of Hexen from the Hammer of Thyrion team, requiring the player's own WAD data and supporting OpenGL rendering.
Platforms:Linux
Stars15
Updated11 months ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2019
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Original game imageAn experimental Vulkan learning-project port of Hexen; currently not functional and crashes on startup.
Platforms:Windows
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Updated3 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2023
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