When you’re a die-hard Duke Nukem 3D fan feeling starved for Hallowe’en themed motion, that is an oddly particular state of affairs in 2025. However I’ve one thing for you nonetheless. Duke Nukem: Horror Fortress takes the bubblegum-starved FPS titan and plonks him into an all-new episode, swapping out the unique’s sci-fi shenanigans for a spookier theme.
Created by modder WilliamGee, Horror Fortress is a sizeable affair. Its nine-level marketing campaign sees Duke discover not one however a number of gothic fortresses, providing between 3-5 hours of extra FPS enjoyable. It is not only a stage pack both. Horror Fortress introduces 24 new enemies together with wandering skeletons, vampire bats, and Nosferatu-like bloodsuckers, in addition to 4 minibosses from D3D with the added bonus of with the ability to shrink them and stomp them to dying.
Horror Fortress additionally equips Duke with 4 extra weapons. Duke can toss huge spiders to assault enemies, then blast them with skeletal shrapnel utilizing the Bone Crusher, a weapon harking back to the Ravager from Doom: The Darkish Ages. And moderately than replenishing well being utilizing medkits, Duke can increase his vitality by cracking open discarded skulls and feasting on the smooth and squishy sponge inside. Yum.
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Duke Nukem: Horror Fortress initially launched again in Could, however WilliamGee just lately launched an up to date model that garlands the mod with a extra particular Hallowe’en theme. This contains a number of newly added Hallowe’en objects, like a pumpkin and a ghost, plus a brand new secret stage that options much more bespoke enemies.
You’ll be able to obtain Duke Nukem: Horror Fortress over on ModDB. Whereas the probabilities of seeing a correct new Duke sport anytime quickly (or, for that matter, ever) are slim, the Duke modding scene has been livelier than standard recently. Solely final week, the creator of Voxel Doom revealed he is making Voxel Duke Nukem 3D, with a launch due quickly. There’s additionally an opportunity we’d see a Duke Nukem TV sequence from the producer of the Satan Could Cry and Castlevania Netflix reveals, with Adi Shankar saying he acquired the rights from Gearbox earlier this 12 months.
