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Wolfenstein 3D (1992)

id Software

DOS

3.52 from 957 ratings

2587 members have it in their collection · 36 playing now · 752 backlogged · 128 wish listed

How long? Main story 6h · with extras 7h (from 8 logged playthroughs)

Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter presented with rudimentary 3D graphics and a follow-up to the top-down infiltration game Castle Wolfenstein. The game is broken up into levels, each of which is a flat plane divided into areas and rooms by a grid-based pattern of walls and doors, all of equal height. Each level is themed after Nazi bunkers and … Read more
Wolfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter presented with rudimentary 3D graphics and a follow-up to the top-down infiltration game Castle Wolfenstein. The game is broken up into levels, each of which is a flat plane divided into areas and rooms by a grid-based pattern of walls and doors, all of equal height. Each level is themed after Nazi bunkers and buildings. To finish a level, the player must traverse through the area to reach an elevator. Levels are grouped together into named episodes, with the final level focusing on a boss fight with a particularly difficult enemy. While traversing the levels, the player must fight Nazi guards and soldiers, dogs, and other enemies while managing supplies of ammunition and health. While later releases of the game included the Nocturnal Missions expansion, this initial release did not. Read less
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Developers
id Software
Publishers
Apogee Software, id Software
Genres
Shooter
Themes
Action, Fantasy, Historical, Horror, Science fiction
Franchises
Wolfenstein
Series
Wolfenstein
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Release dates

  • May 05, 1992 (Full Release) (North_America) DOS

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  • Wolfenstein 3D (May 1992) · ACRN, DOS, GBA, PC, PC98, PS3, X360, XONE

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Featured in lists

Gamestar Magazine's 300 best PC games of all time by Human_Traffic · 300 games · 5
Fully completed games by Luitenant_Gruber · 229 games · 0

Rating distribution

5 stars
147
4 stars
315
3 stars
391
2 stars
92
1 star
12
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kingbk83

Status kingbk83 May 24, 2024

Playing this one again via Super NES emulation. Hot take: the Super NES version is not terrible, all things considered. Yes, some censorship, but still some bumping music and the gameplay is about the same as the PC classic.

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Chovus

Status Chovus Apr 29, 2019

Played the shareware version back in the 90s. I cannot remember whether or not I played the full game or if I owned it. Beat SNES version recently on Hard, and the enemies and bosses were familiar. Did not bother too much with finding secrets and mostly used the chaingun. Flamethrower occasionally and rockets for bosses. The game is not …

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Played the shareware version back in the 90s. I cannot remember whether or not I played the full game or if I owned it. Beat SNES version recently on Hard, and the enemies and bosses were familiar. Did not bother too much with finding secrets and mostly used the chaingun. Flamethrower occasionally and rockets for bosses. The game is not nearly as good as Doom but is still a lot of fun. PC version is better I think. I found the look speed on SNES to be far too slow and made dealing with all the corner camping enemies in tight mazes much more difficult than it needed to be, which was the biggest challenge of the game. Otherwise, I had too much ammo.

I find the fact that they censored out the attack dogs and replaced them with giant rats to be laughable. Props for putting in the effort to make new graphics and sounds though.

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AndTheBeanStalk

Status AndTheBeanStalk Nov 15, 2018

One of the first games I played (start 'em young on establishing nazis are the bad guys), but oof--those hallways and quick turns are barf-city.

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