Russian Doom

Translated games

Russian Doom is aimed to full and proper Russian translation of Doom, Heretic and Hexen games, as well as its setup executable and online help. Additionally it has numerous vanilla bug fixes, enhanced 640x400 display resolution, improved game palettes, removed limits and offers many optional aesthetic game enhancements.

Language choosing between English and Russian is available in the game options menu, as well as in the Setup executable.

The project is based on Chocolate Doom and Crispy Doom, with additions from Doom Retro.

Supported games

The following games are supported:

• DOOM (Press Release Beta, shareware, registered, The Ultimate Doom)
• Doom II
  • No Rest for the Living
  • Master Levels for Doom II
• Final Doom
• SIGIL
• Atari Jaguar (as a recreation)
• Freedoom (Phase 1 and 2, FreeDM)
• Heretic (shareware beta, shareware, commercial, Shadow of the Serpent Riders)
• Hexen (shareware, commercial, Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel)

Press Beta is available with command line parameter “-beta”, and translation of Doom for Atari Jaguar is available as a total conversion with command line parameter “-jaguar”. Both games are available "from the box", no need to download anything.

Gameplay enhancements

Russian Doom offers many different visual enhancements like colored blood, transparency, mouse look and brightmaps. All of them can be toggled in Gameplay options menu.

Most of features are available for Doom, many features are available for Heretic, and just few are available for Hexen.

Besides, there is also available “-vanilla” command line parameter, which will disable all enhancements without any changes in configuration file, making the game visual appearance as close as possible to original executables.

Download

Windows version is compatible with Windows XP/Vista/7/8.1/10/11 (32-bit binaries compatible with both x86 and x64 editions).
DOS version is compatible with MS-DOS, FreeDOS and DOSBox emulator.

Russian Doom 5.1 (released: December 26, 2021)

Windows (32-bit): russian-doom-5.1-win32.zip
Windows (64-bit): russian-doom-5.1-win64.zip
Source code available in zip and tar.gz formats

Russian Heretic 5.0 (released: September 16, 2021)

Windows (32-bit): russian-heretic-5.0-win32.zip
Windows (64-bit): russian-heretic-5.0-win64.zip
Source code available in zip and tar.gz formats

Russian Hexen 4.2 (released: July 3, 2021)

Windows (32-bit): russian-hexen-4.2-win32.zip
Windows (64-bit): russian-hexen-4.2-win64.zip
Source code available in zip and tar.gz formats

Russian Doom for DOS 1.8 (released: June 9, 2020)

DOS: russian-doom-dos-1.8.zip
Source code available on GitHub

Other

PNG font atlases: russian-doom-fonts-png.zip

Contact

The project's homepage is: https://jnechaevsky.github.io/rusdoom
Russian Doom is created by Julian Nechaevsky.

Please feel free to contact author with any questions.