Play Catacomb Abyss Online

Catacomb Abyss is that weird, early-90s dungeon crawler where you play as a wizard blasting skeletons and demons in first-person. It’s the sequel to Catacomb 3-D, but honestly, it feels more like a polished version of the same idea—same creepy corridors, same chunky pixel art, same satisfying fireball noises when you take down a monster.

What’s cool is how much it feels like a prototype for later id Software games (they helped with the 3D effects, which were mind-blowing for MS-DOS at the time). You’ve got this simple magic system—just point and shoot—but the levels twist and turn in ways that make you second-guess every corner. And yeah, it was shareware, so chances are you played the first few levels over and over unless you tracked down the full version.

It’s janky by today’s standards, but there’s something charming about how raw it is. You can practically smell the floppy disks.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".