Freedoom
A complete set of freely licensed levels, graphics and sounds that lets Doom engines run without id Software's data files.
Clean-room Human-led released playableFacts
- Original
- Doom (game data) (1993)
- Platform
- MS-DOS
- Method
- Clean-room
- Provenance
- Human-led · Started 2003 by a known volunteer team, predating AI coding agents (repository history) what this means
- Status
- released
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
- Team
- freedoom
- Started
- 2003
- First release
- 2014-11
- Runs on
- Any Doom source port
- Needs the original
- No
How to get it legally
Free original. Freedoom data is BSD-licensed and runs on GPL Doom engines
This project was rebuilt clean-room by freedoom. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.
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