I've played countless Doom engine games, so believe me when I say this one that combines the FPS with JRPG combat might be the coolest one in 30 years

I know my Doom, and its many derivatives. I've been covering it for years. It has almost never left my PC in over three decades, so I do not say this lightly. End of Starchild—a completely free, standalone game from prolific musician and indie dev Em Essex—might be the single coolest thing built on Doom's venerable, time-tested foundations.

Play it.

If that's not enough to convince you to download a whole 36 megabytes of game, then how about this; End Of Starchild (standalone sequel to 2021's Time Tripper, which you should also play) is Doom refined and polarized into a finely tuned, ultra-stylish bullet hell arcade game. It's...