Doom’s Art Gallery: Chainsaw Replaced by Cheese Knife

Doom’s Art Gallery: Trade Chainsaw for Cheese Knife

Imagine Doom, but instead of demons, you’ve got paintings, and wine glasses replace shotguns. That’s exactly what Doom: The Gallery Experience offers.

A Unique Doom Experience

This free browser game, created by Filippo Meozzi and Liam Stone, transforms the first level of the classic 1993 Doom into a virtual art gallery. Players, as a glasses-wearing Doomguy, navigate halls of art while classical music plays. Each artwork links to its Metropolitan Museum of Art page.

The game includes a “cheese meter,” functioning like health packs, that fills as players consume hors d’oeuvres. Money collected allows purchases from a virtual gift shop. The game uses Construct 3, not the original Doom engine, and the developers spent seven hours studying Doom to replicate the original feel.

From Student Project to Parody

Initially a student assignment, the game is described as a parody of art gallery culture. Meozzi’s real-world experience as an artist’s assistant heavily influenced the game’s design, as he noted in a VG247 interview. The unusual juxtaposition of high art with Doom‘s typically violent graphics creates a unique and fun experience.

Play Doom: The Gallery Experience for free on itch.io and Newgrounds