Mars base, Union Aerospace Corporation experiments opened a portal to Hell. You appear to be the last human, fight your way out!

Beaming up the virtual feed from Mars takes about 20s, be patient while loading the battle simulator soldier.
If experiencing slowdowns, prefer desktop browser or beefy mobile.

How to Play

HTML player: click on game to enable mouse support (browser security)

Desktop controls (recommended):

automatically selected if mouse is detected

Mouse sensitivity control from controls menu:

Alternate controls schemes (without mouse):

from title screen, go to controls menu to switch between control schemes
prefer control scheme 2

mobile menu controls: use left paddle to navigate, use up/down from right paddle to cancel/selec

Linux Version

Pre-requisite: download the zip archive (say in $HOME)

How to unzip/launch:

# open shell at $HOME
# replace <version> with proper release number
unzip poom_<version>_linux.zip
cd poom_<version>_linux/
# change execution bit
chmod +x poom_<version>
# launch game
./poom_<version>

Standalone Version

In you own Pico8 "devkit", you can download standalone zip package.

Recommended setup (adjust to your OS):

mkdir poom
<path to pico>\pico.exe -home .
cd poom\carts
REM change xx to actual version number
unzip poom_standalone.xx.zip

From Pico8 console:

load poom_0
run

Soundtrack

OST (@ParanoidCactus Youtube channel)

Release Notes

(moved to devlogs)

Version 1.6:

  • fixed: wobbly textures on some areas (thanks @farbs)

Version 1.5:

  • added: in-game keyboard controls options
  • added: in-game mouse sensitivity (options menu)
  • added: standalone zip (for arcade cabinets/devices)

Version 1.2:

  • Fixed: crash when pressing fire during load (thanks @Rhoq)
  • Changed: minor texture fixes

Version 1.1:

  • Changed: šŸ…¾ļø=fire/ok āŽ=open/cancel
  • Added linux + Mac OS X binaries (with mouse lock support)

Version 1.0:

  • HTML player with mouse lock support
  • Windows binaries with mouse lock support (new upcoming PICO8 feature)
Mac OS X + linux binaries + standalone versions will be provided later

Credits

Original levels + art + sfx by @gamecactus

Zep for PICO-8 and support (and sneaky versions!)

ID Software for producing such a timeless game

ZDoom Wiki for their fantastic compendium of everything DOOM

LZS compression by James Bowman (https://www.excamera.com/sphinx/article-compression.html)

Beta testing & gameplay feedback by Tom Hall & Jusiv  (& my kids!)

Licence

Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Updated 22 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux, HTML5
Rating
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(764 total ratings)
Authorsfreds72, Paranoid Cactus
GenreShooter
Made withPICO-8
Tags3D, FPS, PICO-8
Code licenseMIT License
Asset licenseCreative Commons Attribution_NonCommercial v4.0 International
Average sessionAbout an hour
InputsKeyboard, Mouse

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Click download now to get access to the following files:

poom_standalone.1.8.zip 269 kB
poom_1.9_linux.zip 1,020 kB
poom_1.9_osx.zip 3 MB
poom_1.9_raspi.zip 2 MB
poom_1.9_windows.zip 1 MB
poom_1.9_standalone.zip 278 kB

Development log

Comments

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in brazilian portuguese, "poom" sounds like "pum", and that's how we say fart in Brazil

nice

damage is incredibly inconsistent and 15hp medkits do not help at all when the shotgunners and imps can easily kill you forcing you to restart the whole level, while you can stand nose-to-nose with an enemy and shoot them only for nothing to happen. im only on defiled realm but cacos have far too fast projectiles and imps have a fast fire rate but slow enough projectiles that you can hide in a corridor then dip out and immediately die to their fireballs

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this is the best game i've found on itch.io please keep making these sorts of games 10/10

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This whole game makes me jumpy and nervous, such as the dark environments, the enemies, and for some reason the 3D graphics too. I am scared of rounding a corner in this game because who knows what will jump at me.8/10 Rubber Chickens. P.S, how do you acquire new weapons?

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move on to the next levels - about 1 new weapon per level to find

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I cant get past the first part? theres only 1 guy and after killing him nothing happens and thats it, i need help

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After you kill the first-of-many shotgun-wielding mainiacs, there should be a door. press space.

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This is an incredible demake/remake of the original doom

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I know this engine you are so talented!

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It's a great fun demake or remake... idk but it's a fun doom game. I just don't know why it is esdf instead of wasd

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This game is a 8.5/10 for me. still impressive and fun but if you have it you should probably just play the OG doom

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in France, WASD isn't a thing on their keyboard layout. Since the dev is french, it's ESDF (I assume).

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Yes but France does not exist

PS: just a joke

a classic!

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It's funny)

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Good game, Now I dont have to get a virus if I look up doom free šŸ˜šŸ˜šŸ˜šŸ˜/silly

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But seriously. LOVE THIS GAME!!! 5/5!!!

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amazing,sound track helped me win lol

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ĀæPara cuĆ”ndo la versiĆ³n en Android?

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no native Android version - sorry.

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F

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Were is the 1.9 standalone version

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good point - never published :/

will do that soon!

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THIS IS SWEET i can see the love put into this

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Everybody gangsta until someone makes SRB2 in Pico8 Doom.

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Is there any way I can get this game to launch in retroarch?

see ā€˜standalone instructionsā€™ on main page

multiple reports of game working ok

Damn, looks like I gotta pay for the engine then...

??

if you want Pico-8 on ur PC, not in browser, you need to pay for it

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no - download the binaries for your platform.

I think you forgot to make your macos v1.9 executable before packaging.

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Such a great game, i had a lot of fun playing it, the only thing i would report is that maybe the gbc filter is a little bit too much, my eyes felt a little unconfortable, but maybe it's because i was playing it fullscreen.

But that's a really good and fun demake

Doom GIFs | GIFDB.com

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thanks - and itā€™s not a gbc ā€˜filterā€™, the underlying game engine is limited to 128x128 (and yeah, full screen is a bit too much).

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WASD doesnā€™t work on non-Us/non-UK keyboards, the engine I am using favors portability for a modest shift of habits.

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This is such a weak cornball response to a developer explaining the limitations of their development.

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THIS IS AWESOME AND PLS HELP!First of all this game is awesome but I really need help because I really want to download it bc playing in browser is annoying. I own a MacBook and checked several times if I have the right version, however any time I have it on my Laptop it just refuses to open and yes I tried to delete it and install again multiple times but it won't work (and yes I always removed it from the trash bin bc I thought that might be the problem but it is still not working) Please I'd really appreciate help as I really love to play this, Thanks in advance :)

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Context: Any Time I click it or click open it just says that the Programm can't be opened, I never had this problem 

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install? there is no install, only a compressed archive that you need to store on your hard drive.

can you post an error screenshot or logs?

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Thank you for your answer, I am a bit confused I am not tech-savvy and English is not my primary language, I'm sorry about that. I guess my problem is that I automatically dragged the file to programs and I'll try without doing that. The Error Message is simply that the program can't open, nothing else (Maybe bc it is not a program and I am stupid) 

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No okay, it is still not working, if I download it without putting it into programs the error message says that there is no program able to open the file :( Will still try tho 

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THIS IS SICK
i love pico 8 sooo much

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hehe - thanks

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I like this game. It's like a doom demake and I'm all for it. My only issue is that I can't find the yellow key on Eternal hall of pain (i think thats the name)

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walk slowly :)

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make the shotgun a sniper rifle that insta kills from halfway across the map like the original doom. 

WHY CAN'T I INSTA KILL AN IMP HALWAY ACROSS THE MAP WITH THE SHOTGUN???

how do i get rid of the frog

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Love it, thought ESDF controls are a weird choice. Any chance we could get the classic WASD implemented as a choice?

Otherwise, I love the game and will be playing more of it

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I think ESDF actually might be the more classic control scheme from the early FPS era. I'm not sure which came first but they both seem to have been common around that time, especially after the release of Quake. According to this quote attributed to someone named Jon A., the rise in popularity of WASD was somewhat arbitrary:

"Quake did not default to WASD. The default controls in quake were actually the arrow keys. The Quake community started using ESDF and WASD (as did Doom before Quake). However, the big push toward WASD happened when Thresh (Dennis Fong) won John Carmack's Ferrari in the first big Quake tournament. After that people started sending his Quake cfg file around and using his settings in hopes of being as good as him. He used WASD and the rest is history."

I don't have anything to say about this game we're commenting underneath in particular (and nothing against WASD as a choice), this just caught my interest. My dad is a Gen X gamer who loved Quake and Unreal and he always uses ESDF for movement so I had a feeling it was an older thing.

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thanks for that history bit!

(btw - I am french, WASD is not a thing - ESDF works natively on all/most keyboards)

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any help in getting this to run on Powkiddy RGB30 running Jelos? I have placed the Rasppi PNG file in both cart and bbs/cart folders and it doesn not show up? 

Any help welcome and thanks in advance.

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have you tried the binaries instead?

Iā€™d recommend that method 

note: putting files in the bbs folder will do nothing. as per instructions, create a poom folder under ./carts and cd from pico8

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Thanksfor the help. I can get it to recognise the file but still unable to load. I'm very new to all this, i shall scower the web for how to get it to work. 

All running fine on PC and love it. Great Job!

post your steps here - I may be able to help

So Iā€™m running the raspberry pi version of pico-8 on the RGB30. It runs fine, Splore works great. I downloaded the raspberry pi version of this game. Initially I just installed the png file in the cart folder. This then showed up on the main menu before running splore. When trying to round it directly I get an error ā€œunable to openā€. If I open the pico-8 and look for the file through splore it does not see it, I also tried adding all the rasp pi files for POOM into the carts file in a file called poom. But it just behaves exactly the same. 

Iā€™m sure Iā€™m doing something wrong but canā€™t seem to find any help on this. 

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you are mixing up packages

- the raspi.zip file contains an executable, no need to use pico8. see ā€˜linux Versionā€™ instructione

- the standalone zip package requires pico8 to run. See ā€˜Standalone Versionā€™ instructions

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As the holder of the speedrun.com world record for this game for a year now... I think this game is really fun. This is such an amazing demake, to the point of me playing this more than actual doom once I bought it.

Thanks for the amazing game :)

thanks!

any ā€˜officialā€™ link to the poom speedrun page? could not find anything solid

Doom Hombrew Ports board has this port. The record is really old by now, and I'm working to improve it :)

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poom [AKA] poor doom

I like these doom-like and doom-clone games,this one is pretty cool,fun,and nostalgic,i had a great time playing it,5\5

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thanks!

Great Doom clone! Our German-language review can be found in our recorded livestream starting at 03:01:10. Subscription to our YouTube or Twitch channel is welcome. šŸ™‚

Could this theoretically run on a 3DS?

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Doom would run natively on a 3ds.

if question is could a Pico8 game run on 3ds, yes also but using ā€˜unofficialā€™ emulators like: https://github.com/jtothebell/fake-08

shirt

Can you mod it, like doom?

somehow but essentially creating a new game

see SDK doc

I though that i'd never play doom or games like this, cuz i don't like all the stuff about demons, moncters etc. but after playing this game i liked both Poom and Doom. Gotta play Doom someday. Thanks a lot

you can play doom online on dos.zone, i think it runs natively there. 

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Can someone pls tell me how to download this on a Linux device in a step by step solution?

what have you got so far?

did you download and unzip the correct package?

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I'm pretty sure I was supposed to unzip the poom_1.9_linux.zip and find the poom_1.9. I tried to run it but it never worked. I don't know if you have to either download something else or if I did something wrong.

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what error message do you get?

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I tried to run Poom like in the picture shown below like any other games I know and I don't know why it's showing me this error.Is there something wrong that I'm doing? FYI I did unzip the file

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I added a "linux version" section in game page

Follow instruction to fix your install.

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HOW.

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see: https://freds72.itch.io/poom/devlog/241700/journey-to-poom

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