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24 alternatives to Classic FPS Wolfenstein 3D brought in the browser via Emscripten
Emscripten-Port of Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny - midzer/wolf4sdl
Classic FPS Wolfenstein 3D is a browser-based version of the original first-person shooter, compiled using Emscripten technology to run in web browsers. It recreates the 1992 game that pioneered the FPS genre, allowing… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Classic FPS Wolfenstein 3D brought in the browser via Emscripten launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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The goal is to have a pixel, mod-friendly perfect recreation of Wolfenstein 3D in Rust.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Play this classic game in your browser
2016 · wolf3d.atw.hu · its alternatives →
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I made a Doom source port that runs within a PDF file. I was inspired by the recent HN post about Tetris in a PDF (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42645218) and I wondered if I could get Doom to run using a similar method. It turns out that old versions of Emscripten can compile C to asm.js code that will happily run inside the limited JS runtime of the PDF engine. I used the doomgeneric (https://github.com/ozkl/doomgeneric) fork of the original Doom source, as that made writing the IO fairly easy. All I had to do was implement a framebuffer and…
2025 · doompdf.pages.dev · its alternatives →
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A 3D game rendered entirely in CSS/HTML. Relying as much as possible on traditional html/css features instead of modern graphic APIs. Supports lighting, shadows, culling, etc. Can you escape the dungeon?
2020 · pantel.is · its alternatives →
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I've been working on an MMORPG that is now in alpha as a solo developer. Here are the major open source technologies that I use: Blender - 3D modeling software for creating the overall environment and every game object. I've gotten a lot of CC and Public Domain assets from https://poly.pizza GLTF - I export assets from blender to the GLTF asset format JSON - I write a JSON config for every game object that describes things like its name, its interactions, its collisions, etc. Node.js exporter - I iterate over the environment and every asset to create a scene hierarchy. I use…
2024 · alpha.reconquer.online · its alternatives →
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Quake (1996), faithfully ported to dependency-free safe Rust and compiled to WebAssembly — play the shareware episode in your browser.
15d ago · quake-srp.pages.dev · its alternatives →
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DEFUNCT: HTML5 and Node.js multiplayer browser game from 2013 - tlhunter/Cobalt-Calibur-3
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · urk-3d-multi-space-game.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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A liminal brush-based CSG editor and game engine with unified (forward) renderer inspired by Radiant and Worldcraft/Hammer Compact and lightweight (target: Snapdragon 8CX, OpenGL 3.3) Real-time lighting with stencil shadows without the need for pre-baked compilation
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PS2 games in the browser: static recompilation to WebAssembly with a native runtime - snuri00/ps2-web-recomp
12d ago · github.com · its alternatives →
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My background project for the last two years has been re-implementing my 2004 C++ shoot'em up game in TypeScript + WebGL, and it's finally done (just in time for the 20th anniversary!) Play the game online: https://nicollet.net/blog/darklaga/darklaga.html Technical article about the remake: https://nicollet.net/blog/darklaga/remake.html I have tested Firefox, Chrome and Edge on desktop and mobile (no access to a device capable of running Safari). It's amazing how much difference 20 years makes: the hardware is so much more powerful, the web…
2024 · nicollet.net · its alternatives →
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I've posted this game here before, hopefully a repost is fine as the game has changed quite a bit (improved AI, improved mapeditor, much quicker gameplay, etc). Game is based on JavaScript/Canvas and WebSockets. On the browser side the map is pre-rendered (as a background image), just the mobile units/buildings and animations are dynamically rendered. The lobby server is made in node.js, but the game server is C++ for performance reasons (mainly the pathfinding). I found the C++ WebSocket libraries out there to be too difficult to use so I made my own based on the rfc. Overall I…
2022 · battle-of-flags.com · its alternatives →
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Pseudo-3D shooter written completely in gawk using raycasting technique - TheMozg/awk-raycaster
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Playground for the fire effect from DOOM. Really simple algorithm and all experiments are welcome! - filipedeschamps/doom-fire-algorithm
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The game that changed everything converted to a 1 pixel line
2015 · wonder-tonic.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’ve been working on Gore – a port of the classic Doom engine written in pure Go, based on a ccgo C-to-Go translation of Doom Generic. It loads original WAD files, uses a software renderer (no SDL or CGO, or Go dependencies outside the standard library). Still has a bit of unsafe code that I'm trying to get rid of, and various other caveats. In the examples is a terminal-based renderer, which is entertaining, even though it's very hard to play with terminal-style input/output. The goal is a clean, cross-platform, Go-native take on the Doom engine – fun to hack on, easy to read,…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Render 3D models (OBJ, glTF, GLB, STL, .vox) as ASCII art — in the browser, in React or Vue, or straight in your terminal. A three.js-style API with no WebGL and no canvas: just text in a single <pre>.
Jun 2026 · glyphcss.com · its alternatives →
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I open sourced my HTML5 multiplayer 3D voxel browser game engine.
2023 · kevzettler.com · its alternatives →
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After 25 years of writing software, I was feeling nostalgic for the kinds of things that got me into programming in the first place: the old DOS demoscene. I spent a weekend seeing if I could recapture some of that INT 13H VGA magic using today's web tech, but with the old-school constraints of doing it from scratch. The result is this portfolio of ten classic effects running in a single HTML file. It's all vanilla JavaScript writing to a element, with no external libraries. It was a fun challenge to implement things like: * The color palette cycling and smooth fading in the Plasma demo. *…
2025 · jdfio.com · its alternatives →
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The classic multiplayer FPS remade for the PC (unofficially)
2016 · geshl2.com · its alternatives →
- 22MI
A charming multiplayer browser MMORPG sandbox retro 8-bit game where you fight monsters and do quests to level up 8 different skills. Free to play! PvP allowed.
2013 · aberoth.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · affectionate-minsky-072f4c.netlify.com · its alternatives →
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A Wolfenstein3D-like raycaster made in Windows Batch. - nTh0rn/batch-raycaster
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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