r/boomershooters

With the supposed rise of the genre, in theory, we should have an endless list of good indie boomer shooters by now. But after spending a lot of time (and I mean a lot) browsing through the current catalog, I'm frankly rather taken aback by how few options there really are.

I should clarify that I'm defining 'boomer shooter' as games like Doom, Quake, Duke 3D, and Blood. This does not include stuff like arena shooters, Painkiller clones, Half-Life-style story-driven games, open-world sandboxes, etc. which are now apparently also often called boomer shooters, even though this isn't accurate at all.

Despite my best attempts at finding them, I'm having a shockingly hard time finding anything that interests me. There's lots of cool-looking games with retro-style graphics, but a large number of them aren't truly boomer shooters (see my earlier point about the other genres not counting), and the few that actually are tend to be simple Wolfenstein clones.

It seems to me that the only noteworthy games are older releases like Dusk and a few others. It's frankly making me thirsty af. At this point, I'd accept even a well-executed Wolf clone, insofar as it actually gave me what I wanted (e.g., an actual boomer shooter and not Painkiller arena nonsense or a Doom 2016 rip-off).

Anybody got any recommendations? To be more specific, my criteria are:

- Must use the "look for keys to unlock doors and find the exit" gameplay formula.

- Can't be an open-world sandbox, a Painkiller-style arena shooter, a Doom 2016/Eternal-style movement shooter, an Ultrakill clone, etc.

- Must use 2.5D graphics or low-poly 3D models.

I should note that I've already checked out the following (EDIT: I've updated this list since it's actually longer than I thought):

- All the classics (Doom, Quake, Duke 3, Blood, etc)

- Project Warlock

-Prodeus

- Dusk

- Amid Evil

- HROT

- Ion Fury

- Zortch

- Chasm: the Rift

I'm 42 and grew up playing boomer shooters. How did the coiner of phrases skip 2 generations!

Is one necessarily much better than the other?

Your consciousness is condemned to remain eternally imprisoned within the universe of a single boomer shooter, with no hope of escape, no promise of salvation, and no existence beyond its relentless confines. You are granted but one final privilege: to choose the world in which your eternal damnation shall unfold. Which shall it be?

I chose Duke Nukem 3D. (Because of chicks!) What's your choice and why?

It is 25 years old now, being Irish I had to make a video on one of my faves

Is it a boomer shooter? ehhhh... probably overall not but its more so than I remember

Big fan of this sub so I know some of you love this game

Nightdive.. remaster please?

https://www.moddb.com/mods/librequake-for-kex

Showcase of a mod I made of the LibreQuake campaign for the Quake remaster, I call if "LibreMaps"... Yeah the name sucks but plays beautifully

I realized that unless you're quite deep into the Quake modding scene or are a game dev yourself, you probably don't know about LibreQuake... I was talking to a bunch of friends that are all fans of Quake and Doom and not one of them knew what LibreQuake was, then I watched ThatTravGuy's video about Brazilian Drug Dealer 3 and they also said they've never heard of it!! So the more I can spread the word about it the better!

Overall, if you're not a modder, Quake mapper or dev but are still a fan of Quake, this is basically, just even more Quake expansions

Mod includes:

• All 5 episodes of the LibreQuake Campaign

• Original Quake ammo and health pickups

• LibreQuake's weapons, monsters, animated items (like the armor and backpacks) and power-up pickups that you can replace on the Display menu by toggling "Enhanced models" on and off

• LibreQuake's original soundtrack

• LibreQuake's original sounds, HUD, main menu, pause, end game score and mission status bar all had to go in favor of the original Quake assets due to KEX's size restrictions and slightly different sound mixing than other source ports

Hope you like it and please let me know what can i improve or add on a future release