Doom, the Roguelike
MS-DOS Game
- Freeware (with conditions)Licence
- Kornel KisielewiczDeveloper
- 4 Oct 2026Page Updated
Details
- Developer
- Kornel Kisielewicz
- Released
- 2005
- Licence
- Freeware (with conditions)
- Original Release
- drl.chaosforge.org
- Page Updated
Screenshots
Overview
Doom, the Roguelike turns Doom into a turn-based dungeon crawl. A marine fights through Phobos and Deimos down to Hell, with the shotguns, chainsaws, imps and barons of the original, drawn in text characters. Levels are new each game and death is permanent.
Kornel Kisielewicz released it as freeware. This is the DOS version 0.9.8 from 2005, the first with sound.
How to Set It Up
- Install DOSBox Staging or another DOS emulator.
- Unzip the download into a folder of its own.
- The game needs CWSDPMI.EXE, a free DOS extender that many DOS games include. Copy it into the
doomrl-dos-098folder first. - Start DOSBox Staging and type
mount c "<folder>\doomrl-dos-098", where<folder>is where you unzipped the download, thenc:. - Type
DOOMRL.EXEto start the game.
