Wolfenstein 3D

Didn't age very well. Controls make it almost impossible to play.

Bethesda needs to Remaster this game. If Doom and Quake got a big update. Then let have the classic as well!

A mega classic cultural game where we have to kill the Nazis and also the boss Hitler?!
WONDERFUL AND SATISFYING!

4/10 it's playable and sharp

the granddad of all FPS games.

While I have massive respect for this game and understand it's importance in gaming history as the first fps I simply cannot recommend any1 buy it cause of it's clunky and frustrating controls that don't make sense (like controlling and aiming both with the mouse??) and the maze like level with each room looking exactly the same as the last, which makes trying to get through the levels a chore. Imo if you wanna experience this era of games play the original doom, it looks and plays a shit ton better and is actually fun to play as apposed to this mess.

ha ha prrr

I Love this game, such a classic. if you haven't played the Wolfenstein series, but you like classic arcade style games, this is definitely the game to play.

It's the 1990's again! After the original Escape from Castle Wolfenstein (released on the Commodore 64 - remember that platform??), Wolfeinstein 3D was one of the (if not the first) first person shooter games. It spawned many other games, including DOOM, but W3D was always my favorite. Great to see it on Steam!

I have big respect for Wolfenstein. It shaped the genre. Unfortunately, it did not age well.

Usually I don't mind old games at all but there's some that just don't stand the test of time.

Honestly, the music's alright. I was even fine with the original controls for a while before installing ECWolf. The main problem was the maze-like floors. And I only beat the first 6ish floors of chapter 1 and was already getting a headache from trying to orient myself. Wouldn't be TOO much of a problem if getting to the end of a floor didn't require finding a key. Even with ECWolf's automap, it was a hassle finding what tiny room you missed on the (surprisingly big) maps.

Steam reviews are for whether you recommend the game to others, and I can't. It's worth a try if you're curious about it but if you were looking for a fun game, this hasn't been it since DOOM came out.

please would id software go back and add the the spear of destiny mission packs return to danger and the ultimate challenge

Yeah it's still pretty fun.

To play, you're gonna want to download ECWolf for greater screen resolution and more options, then turn up mouse sensitivity and "disable y-axis" on your mouse. Basically, in vanilla Wolf3D, moving the mouse backwards and forwards moves your character backwards and forwards. There's a reason this movement scheme was abandoned in the '90s. Disabling the y-axis gives you a rough equivalent to a modern WASD + Mouselook control scheme, and you're good to go.

You'll also probably want to download ECWolf RMST, which updates textures, sprites, and sound effects in a way that is faithful to the 1992 artstyle. In particular, the weapon sounds are MUCH better, the vanilla sound effects are very much a product of 1992. However, this is a matter of taste and players who want the retro experience may not like it. (ECWolf RMST can be downloaded from the "Addons" section of ModDB, and is NOT in the "Mods" section).

Gameplay is straightforward--crawl through levels, kill natsies, collect treasure, find secrets. A few tips: All damage is dealt via hitscans. This means for every shot that is fired by you or the enemy, a dice is rolled to determine if you hit, and then a second dice is rolled to determine damage. Being closer increases the chance of hitting and also increases damage--for both you and your enemy. Looking at an enemy when they're firing at you and sprinting also both decrease your odds of being hit, but in practice this isn't very useful in-game. Victory will largely be determined by your reflexes and how many enemies have you in their line of sight at any given moment.

There are four difficulty levels, and their primary effect is determining number of enemy spawns. Higher difficulty, more enemies. A few enemies also can get a little bonus health, and "Can I Play Daddy" difficulty reduces the damage taken by the player significantly, but by far the most noticeable difference will be the number of enemies. Secrets are not mandatory to find (with a few prominently marked exceptions), which is good, because they are also tedious to find (spamming spacebar while looking at walls is the only guaranteed technique).

There are Six Episodes with 10 levels each (8 normal levels, a boss level, and a secret level), as well as a sequel "Spear of Destiny" which is 20 levels. The first three episodes are absolutely worth playing. Episode 2: Operation Eisenfaust is by far the most annoying because of the introduction of a brutally difficult enemy. You should feel no shame cranking the difficulty down for that one. Episodes 4-6 are also good, but a little more tedious and not nearly as necessary. The climax of episode 3 is a great way to end your game. Spear of Destiny is, in my opinion, not fun and not worth playing, but it has some unique features that fans might like to see and a climax that is unforgettable.

If you're only going to play one id software '90s shooter, just play Doom. Wolf3D, being the earlier attempt, has less to offer and shows its age more. But if you're really curious to see what it looked like, check it out.

Feels like home.
Shooting feels better that many games today.

Childhood classic, still playable. I wouldn't make myself play through to the end, but it's fun to explore as a piece of gaming history.

hi

Great childhood nostalgia. Gives me nausea from the movements but well worth it.

mein leben

perfect game to play while listening to the Dead Kennedys 1981 classic "Nazi Punks F#ck Off!" on repeat

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To my surprise, pretty enjoyable. I just played the Easteregg levels in "The New Order" and always thought that they were pretty boring and bad... But no, the original is genuinely a fun game! Even after all this years! You just have to quit using the mouse and just use the keyboard for this game. It feels much better and you don't get sick after every turn. Thank me later.

(also, just decide for a wall and hug it the entire time, there is no way that you remember all the level layouts till the end)

This games RNG for damage taken, the fact that enemies can (and will) shoot you through each other, almost every enemy is hitscan, you take more damage if an enemy is behind you and the map designers knew that so they'd place nazi's on each side of a door to fuck with you. The horrible never ending maze-like level structure, this game is horrible but it scratches that little itch in my brain so I keep playing it

Unlike "Doom" and its sequel, which are still a blast to play, "Wolfenstein 3D" has not aged well at all.

It was one of the first real FPS games and it deserves all the credit it can get for that. I still play it occasionally just to remind myself how far video games have come, but that's it. The controls are stiff and the graphics strain my eyes. It's like when you try to focus on something, but it just keep being blurry. It gives me a headache. I usually don't have this problem, but in this case, I do.

As a historic artifact, "Wolfenstein 3D" is a mandatory experience. We owe a great deal to this game, perhaps even more than "Doom", but that's up for debate. After this, FPS games were never the same. I recommend that every gamer play this game at least once.

Other than that, I personally don't find much enjoyment in playing it. I respect "Wolfenstein 3D", but I just don't enjoy playing it.

The game that started a genre a true classic through and through would recommend to anyone a fan of the shooters.

Remaster Wolf3D Nightdive!!

Archaic and simplistic in design, but it's the simplicity that makes it so fun. Wolf 3D is FPS games distilled down to the absolute basics. As far as gameplay goes, you get to shoot nazis, shoot some more nazis, shoot zombie nazis, shoot nazi dogs and then shoot some more nazis. Occasionally you shoot Hitler (Mecha Nazi). Also find some keys, open some doors. You know, the basics.

Despite being essentially the first FPS, the shooting is incredibly satisfying, enemies blow up into piles of gore, the chaingun sounds chunky and deadly and clears rooms out like nothing. All good fun.

To get around the archaic nature of the game and bring it somewhat closer to this century, definitely download ECWolf. Having built in strafing is a godsend because this game is hard as shit. Automapping is also a godsend because some of the map designs are downright diabolical.

Completing the game on the hardest difficulties is probably up there in the top 5 most difficult but satisfying gaming accomplishments I have under my belt.

Fuck 6-7 and 6-8 man.

nostalgic, and running on modern machine, classic game

For anybody on here saying "its good but you cant walk left and right". You can strafe left and right by holding alt, and then using the buttons you use to look left and right to instead step in those directions.

Pls like this comment so more people see it and can enjoy the game. A lot of old FPS games used the alt to strafe style, including doom 93.

This is where it all started.

story is fun but the gameplay is kinda annoying since u cant go sideways like pressing A and D on ur keyboard makes you look to the sides instead of walking sideways and i never knew how useful that was in games until i played this

rlly fun tho

fuck nazis

I'm shit at this game

first time i played this was in 1992 when it came out, definitely the best shooter ever.

yeah

If you never have played very many Vids, this game will tax your mind and get you into the mindset of solving problems. I am a basket case, this is an old game,but it is new to me

Like most people who have this I imagine, ignore the playtime. It can't account for the hundreds of hours I spent playing the copy I got off of MAW and ISOZone (RIP) when I was in middle school, nor the dozens of hours spent playing mods from WolfenVault or DHW as recently as this week.

There's basically nothing I can say about this game's impact that hasn't already been said a thousand times over by everyone even casually into the history of video games, so I'll just focus on how it is today.

Answer: Despite it's limitations that turn off some people, it holds up perfectly and is just as fun as it was at release. the only minor complaint I could lobby is that the weapon roster is limited to a fault. Once you get the Chaingun, all other weapons are useless unless you're running very low on ammo. But in fairness, Doom and most other FPS games that followed Wolf 3D have the same issue of having multiple weapons that are totally pointless once you get stronger ones (the pistol in doom, the shotgun and axe in quake, the Wand in Heretic, anything other than the MP40 in ROTT, etc.). It's just much more noticeable in Wolf 3D since there are only 4 weapons, and 3 of them all use the same ammo pool.

And clearly id realized this later on, since the SNES, Jaguar, and Mac-Family versions all have the addition of the Flame Thrower and Bazooka to spice things up, with the Mac and 3DO versions even adding them back into the original 60 levels. But those also make considerable sacrifices for their given platforms or dude to porting restrictions, so it's a mixed bag. The BEST option I can recommend if it makes things a bit too bland would be to download the recent 30th Anniversary mod that uses a custom Wolf4SDL binary to add the Flame Thrower and Bazooka (among others) back into the original DOS version, along with a ton of QOL features like an automap, stats counters, vertical mouse toggle, removal of collision and use sounds, and a bunch of other extras.
That, or get a copy of MacenWolf... but still buy this out of principle!

Other than that though, the core game still holds up perfectly as a fun arcadey romp through WWII. And clearly its limitations in level design aren't really what holds it back, since modern games like Intrude, Project Warlock, Extraneum, Brotherhood, and GUNGODZ are able to make great takes on the formula while still keeping to most of it's limitations (90 degree walls, no verticality, etc.). Not to mention the HUNDREDS of wolf4SDL and ECWolf mods.

Overall, it's a great game and a great piece of video game history, but you probably didn't need me to tell you that. Just figured I'd give my 2 cents as a fan though.

MEIN LEBEN!

Better than Youngblood

I killed Hitler

floor 6 sucks

cd c:\games\wolf3d.exe

Classic. Great first person shooter.

You get to kill hitler and nazis : )

Also the soundtrack is fucking amazing

My very first FPS game, had so much with it back then. yes, controls are really a bit janky because you can move using wasd and moving the mouse at same time, but still it's fun to play. A true classic game, makes me feel young again.

Memory unlocked used to play that game a lot when I was a kid on MS-DOS. I remember when I completed a level I would print a score for my friends.