Odamex

Odamex is a multiplayer-oriented DOOM port with a focus on classic DOOM gameplay. Perfect for playing with friends or alone, Odamex is faithful to the original DOOM games. It has the ability to play back vanilla demos, while also providing an enhanced experience with modern quality-of-life features and expanded modding capabilities.

Features include:

General Improvements on the Original Games:

• Can play many DOOM engine games, including Ultimate DOOM, DOOM II, Final DOOM, Freedoom, Chex Quest, Hacx, and REKKR
• Supports many modern editing features, such as “limit removing”, Boom, MBF, MBF21, and ID24
• Supports Hexen format and older ZDoom format maps
• Uncapped framerate
• High resolutions
• Widescreen support up to 32:9 ratio (ultra widescreen)
• 32-bit color renderer
• Multiple ways to playback MIDI music, including an FM Synth emulator to rekindle those 1990s memories
• Supports MOD and other tracker music, MP3, and OGG in custom wads
• Quake-style console and key bindings
• Crosshairs
• Extended HUD
• Mouselook, jumping, swimming, and flying
• Walk over/under monsters and other things

Unmatched Online Experience:

• Support for up to 255 players at once
• Top tier network code. Play with your friends on the other side of the world!
• Unlagged - Odamex will compensate for poor network conditions
• In-game wad downloading
• On-the-fly wad loading (servers can run hundreds of wads without you disconnecting!)
• Vote to change server settings such as fraglimit, timelimit, map, and more (must be enabled on server)
• Custom player colors

Exciting Multiplayer Gamemodes:

• Cooperative & Survival
• Deathmatch / Team Deathmatch
• Last Man Standing / Team Last Man Standing
• Capture the Flag
• The Cacoward winning Horde mode
• And more!

To use your own Timidity config file, use this command: flatpak override net.odamex.Odamex --env=TIMIDITY_CFG=<config location>

Note: The included version of Timidity does NOT support soundfonts, only GUS patches.

A copy of DOOM, DOOM II, Final DOOM, Freedoom, Hacx, REKKR, or Chex Quest is required. If you do not own DOOM, it can be purchased on GOG or Steam.