There was this. A cursed little mod I stitched together over a decade ago under the pseudonym Maxim Enotovski. It was never meant to be serious.

Back in 2012, in that glorious age when everything could be a Doom mod and everything shouldn’t be a terry wad, I took the infamous VID mask—that horrifying stone-faced logo from Russian TV—and shoved it straight into the Doom engine. First as a joke, a quick cacodemon sprite swap with creepy new sounds.

May 2015 I went off the rails.

For the uninitiated: VID (ВИD) was a Russian television company, and its intro was the stuff of childhood trauma. A slow pan on a bald stone face in pitch black, paired with cold ambient synths. That logo haunts generations. It’s been burned into the psyche of kids from the ‘90s and early 2000s not just in Russia, but across post-Soviet space—and somehow even beyond. This thing’s got international scare power. There’s something universally uncanny about a corporate stone idol staring into your soul.

The concept of the mod was simple: walk around a flickering TV maze and turn off evil floating VID heads before they scream your soul out. The sound design was criminally stupid in a good way—every head moved with that dreadful droning VID intro sound. If you screwed up and let one get too close, it would scream loud enough to blow out your speakers and take a quarter of your health. Game design? More like cultural PTSD therapy.

I’m not proud. But I’m not sorry either.

Huge shout-out to the Викискримия 2.0 fandom wiki who somehow immortalized this fever dream in a detailed article back when the internet still had pockets of weird. I forgot this existed and it felt like someone had dug up an embarrassing zine from my emo era—but for mods. Honestly, respect.

The project never got past version 1.4.1b and was mostly passed around in VK posts and nocens.ru forum no one remembers anymore. And yet—it lives. I still occasionally get comments on my ancient gameplay videos from people discovering this monstrosity for the first time. Somehow, the stone face continues to scream.

Doom of VID isn’t art. It’s not even a game in the traditional sense. It’s a perfectly Russian, extremely janky, deeply cursed relic of modding culture—and that’s exactly what makes it worth remembering.

Downloads!

🧷 doom_of_vid_1.2.4.exe
A completely random mid-dev build I found while digging through some old drives. No changelog, no context. Pure chaos.

🎮 dovinstall.exe
Final release: Version 1.4.1b with multiplayer support. Launch on modern systems at your own risk.
(No viruses included. Probably. I was broke, not evil.)