The Difficulties Of Turning Doom Into A Sex Game [NSFW]

The Difficulties Of Turning Doom Into A Sex Game [NSFW]

“If only you could talk to the monsters,” a now-infamous review once said of the original Doom. Here’s a thought, though: What if you could fuck them?

(Warning: this post is very NSFW.)

The original Doom has been modded to hell and back. It’s been turned into everything from a ninja girl anime to a dang Mario game. But sex? On its face, that seems pretty incompatible with a game about reducing demons to piles of quivering mush. But here we are.

HDoom is a mod where, instead of shooting monsters until they die, you blast them with “sex lasers” until they collapse into sweaty, spent heaps that you can sleep with. The mod has become pretty well-known in the Doom modding community, beloved to some and infamous to others. Enemies are technically “monster girls”, a popular fixture in anime porn (hentai) that inspired HDoomGuy, the mod’s creator. According to HDoomGuy, the monster girl set-up gives him a way to “blend erotic human elements with monstrous elements and end up with cool, exotic designs.”

 


HDoomGuy wants the mod to be a giant, absurd orgy that the entirety of Hell is in on.


 

HDoomGuy wants the mod to be a giant, absurd orgy that the entirety of Hell is in on. The mod is full of outlandish character designs, hilariously gratuitous sex and dicks nearly as large as the people they’re attached to. Weapons include a fluffy pillow (a replacement for Doom‘s fist attack), a high-powered vibrator (standing in for the chainsaw), a TV that gets Hell’s denizens hot and bothered with “lewd content” (taking the place of the plasma gun) and a poetry book whose sticky pages are rife with “high-class literature” (the BFG, of course).

Video courtesy of Shadow Freddy.

The point, HDoomGuy said, is to create a non-violent arsenal. “[Weapons] are entirely harmless,” he said. “The ‘projectile’ weapons fire what amounts to something like ‘sex lasers’ you’d see in some cheesy ’70s/’80s porno. They were originally squirt guns, but squirt guns just aren’t much fun to press the ‘shoot’ button with. Plus, there wasn’t much I could do sound-design-wise to make them fun to use. So instead, I took a page out of Chex Quest‘s book and went for some cool, brightly-coloured, non-lethal laser things.”

But he’s also swimming in fraught waters. He wants his mod to express that all the squeezing, sucking, pounding and thrusting is consensual, but the game also features a character knocking monster ladies down and having his way with them. The mod can appear downright rape-y at times, with your character mowing down hordes of monster women who seem to be trying to fight him before the laser works its voodoo. It’s provoked strong negative reactions from some people:

The Difficulties Of Turning Doom Into A Sex Game [NSFW]

The Difficulties Of Turning Doom Into A Sex Game [NSFW]

The Difficulties Of Turning Doom Into A Sex Game [NSFW]

The Difficulties Of Turning Doom Into A Sex Game [NSFW]

The Difficulties Of Turning Doom Into A Sex Game [NSFW]

Despite imagery that can appear non-consensual, HDoomGuy insists that his mod is about humans and demons having fun, not forcing themselves upon each other. “It’s definitely weird!” he said, speaking of the dichotomy between sex and violence in his mod. According to HDoomGuy, that approach is what makes his mod interesting. “After all, sex and violence have always been kinda those ‘no-no subjects’, and Doom was pretty groundbreaking as far as the whole ‘violent video games’ thing went when it came out. I think one of my early thoughts when working on this thing was, ‘What if we took this game that was (at the time) famous for being pretty dark and violent, and made it into something lighthearted and sexy?’”

 


“Sex and violence have always been kinda those ‘no-no subjects’, and Doom was pretty groundbreaking as far as the whole ‘violent video games’ thing went when it came out.”


 

HDoom is definitely goofy, not to mention creative and, in its own way, fun. It’s hard not to chuckle at all the monstrously colossal dicks, butts and boobs. Also, you can fuck a Cacodemon! Finally! But is it sexy? Obviously, that part is subjective, but for me it does a little, not a lot. To be clear, I am into hentai. Despite how off-putting some of it can be, I do get the appeal. In HDoom’s case, some of the animations and designs are well done — not to mention very imaginative — and there’s a bath house scene that builds well before descending into sexy madness. Other parts, though, are too much. The mod, as it currently stands, is a Fuck Rampage. Much like I imagine fucking a thousand demons would, it leaves me kinda numb in places.

The Difficulties Of Turning Doom Into A Sex Game [NSFW]

Fans of this this type of mod argue that it’s all about the scenario, context and story. That’s why they go for a hentai video game and not, say, more traditional porn: They want something that feels outlandish and wholly untethered from our reality. They want a sexy story they can’t get anywhere else. HDoomGuy plans to emphasise that outlandishness with the mod’s visual novel mode. While it isn’t fully implemented yet, HDoomGuy and a system design collaborator, TheZombieKiller, plan for a mode where you can well, talk to the monsters. And then you’ll bone them, at some point, probably, because that’s just kinda how things work in HDoom.

These segments — at least, the ones that are in the game right now — feel less uncomfortable. You talk to demons, and one even tells you that you can look, but not touch. Nobody’s attacking anybody. A dialog box opens, and if a naked demon lady is DTF, you get to it. Walking up to a demon and having a chat in an interface that looks like it belongs in a dating sim emphasises how silly the mod is trying to be. The writing is pretty funny, to boot.

“The other thing I wanna add in the immediate future is something funnier/non-violent for the player’s ‘death sound’ to hammer in the non-lethal aspect of the mod,” HDoomGuy said. “Also the demon girls will screw you when you lose once we get some more animations done for ’em.”

The Difficulties Of Turning Doom Into A Sex Game [NSFW]

While HDoomGuy’s intentions and many of the plans for the mod tone down some of its more concerning aspects, HDoom still walks an exceptionally difficult line. The part about demon girls fucking you after you’ve fallen, for instance, is meant to imply that everyone’s having sex with everyone — your character isn’t the only one running around with his dick out, essentially — but it could still read as violating or non-consensual. When you’re trying to depict sex using re-skins of violent mechanics, these implications are tough to avoid.

Still, HDoom is often funny and creative, and HDoomGuy’s goal is to move the mod away from its nastier underpinnings. Is that goal achievable, given the violence at Doom‘s core, as well as some of hentai’s more troublesome tropes? It’s tough to say. HDoomGuy has been working on the idea of a sexy Doom mod since 2014. Even with all the ups and downs, he told me that making the mod has been “slow and often hard, but fun all the same”. I’m guessing the pun was intended.


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