R.A.C.Kill
By RaphaelMode - 34 Maps
Format: Vanilla
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Started: September 9th 2026
Finished: September 9th 2026
Status: Abandoned
Special shoutout to BizzareIdeaMan for recommending me this! They've got their own blog here with some very well written reviews (both of Doom stuff and other things) which are way longer and more detailed than anything I've done. Give it a look sometime!
Unfortunately while I greatly appreciate the suggestion, it makes me feel REALLY bad about what I'm going to say regarding R.A.C.Kill. It sucks. It feels like the playable definition of "shitpost", a mishmash of 90s shovelware mapping slathered in custom textures with nonsensical graffiti and billboards everywhere, and maps that rival the Master Levels for their mixture of boredom and painfully obtuse progression. You'll spend far longer than you want in these maps puzzling out where to go, not helped by RaphaelMode's constant usage of "what the hell did that switch do" syndrome and some of the most backtrackingest backtracking I've seen since... well the Master Levels. The custom weapons and enemies are pretty neat at least, I like the Hyper Shotgun, which is even beefier than your usual Super Shotgun and eats 4 shells per shot while obliterating anything in front of it, and there's a good number of very solid midis here among some weird jank. I at least played far enough to see the secret maps which are... VERY interesting. Even if you don't end up enjoying R.A.C.Kill very much I'd say it's at least worth it to take a peek at them. Map 31 is pretty abrasive and frustrating to figure out but it is VERY cool provided you manage to understand it, and exploits some underutilized bits of Doom's internal logic in a very creative way. As a playable Doom experience, R.A.C.Kill is pretty annoying and not particularly fun, but as a piece of creative work it's FASCINATING. The creator set up an eyebleedingly ugly Neocities page to host all his stuff, intentionally inverts the placement of "ea" in any words he types (ex: turning "early" into "aerly" or "treatise" into "traetise"), and is apparently working on ANOTHER wad that seems even more incomprehensible than R.A.C.Kill is. If you've got any degree of nostalgia for 90s shovelware, have extreme tolerance for weird bullshit/strange artistic expression, and don't mind maybe not having all that much fun, R.A.C.Kill might prove more interesting for you than it was for me.
Rating - N/A
Favorite/Least Favorite Map skipped because the WAD wasn't completed.