DOOM Retro is intentionally minimalist in its approach, and so it does a few things differently
 if compared with other modern DOOM source ports. Open the ¥ DOOM Retro Wiki for details.

DOOM Retro v6.1.1 is now available to download as a 64-bit Windows app. Here’s a list of what’s changed since the last version:

• DOOM Retro is now built using v18.7.0 of Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2026.
• Minor changes have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
• Minor changes have been made to DOOM Retro’s splash screen.
• Minor changes have been made to text that is output to the console.
• A bug is fixed whereby the player’s view would spin as the screen faded to black when quitting using the quit CCMD in the console.
• The very top line of the console now displays correctly.
• The correct sprite for the strength symbiote power-up is now displayed when playing Freedoom: Phase 1 or Freedoom: Phase 2.
• Music is now heard again when playing DOOM’s fourth episode, Thy Flesh Consumed.
• Several improvements have been made to the support of the Master Levels.
• The correct map names are now used when playing Final DOOM: The Plutonia Experiment and TNT – Evilution.
• The value of the alwaysrun CVAR is now retained when entering resurrect player in the console.
• Pressing the END key in the console now moves the text caret to the end of the input first, before scrolling to the bottom of the console.
• Dithered lighting when the r_ditheredlighting CVAR is on now appears correctly when the r_detail CVAR is low and the r_lowpixelsize CVAR is not its default of 2×2.