Grey Cat
By Ear1h et al. - 25 Maps
Format: MBF21
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Started: May 31st 2026
Finished: June 2nd 2026
Status: Completed
Look, I like cats but even cats can't save this wad. Grey Cat is in the same camp as 10x10 and Constriction: 1024, being a wad centered around a specific mapping gimmick. This time around the gimmick is this: One mapper made a greybox layout with no textures or enemies, and someone completely different textured the whole thing and added guns/enemies. As a community project concept its cute, but most of these maps are very uninteresting/bad, and they suffer more by being based on a custom gameplay mod that I'm not 100% fond of. When it works it's pretty fun, but most of the time it doesn't. Episode 2 is where all the good maps are, and only like the back half of E2 are where the maps that are actually worth playing are. The credits map is INSANELY detailed for some reason, and is a fun little cat scavenger hunt except for the several random jumpscare secrets that I didn't appreciate whatsoever. Map 10 was also bugged in UZDoom with the laser gates still being impassable after they disappear, but that'll probably get fixed.
Rating - ⭐⭐⭐½
Favorite Map - Map 20: "Twisted Portrayal of Gaia"
Least Favorite Map - Map 8: "Egypt, Again?"