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Next Nightmare Hour
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Every Friday 21:00–22:00 London, the house turns vicious.
2×SOULS“Hell is multiplayer.”
Brutal Doom Co-op · Bring your own bullets
One server now — and it never sits still. It rotates seasons: fresh mapsets and gamemodes (co-op & survival) that cycle every few days. The roster updates live — when it's empty, the demons are just waiting.
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One zip with Zandronum 3.2.1 + the Brutal Doom Community Expansion + a smart launcher inside. Unzip it anywhere and double-click PLAY HELLHOUSE.bat — it finds your own doom2.wad automatically (Steam / GOG), grabs whatever season the server's running, and drops you straight in.
No install. No Doomseeker. No version chasing. If it genuinely can't find your Doom II, it tells you clearly and points you at the one file you need to supply.
Cooperative Doom II. MAP01 through MAP32. On rotation. Forever. Brutal Doom Community Expansion is the toolkit — chainsaw mercy, double-barrel grace, the kind of carnage Romero would bless at ninety frames a second. Bring a buddy. Bring an army. The demons multiply for everyone.
Three things you need to know before you load in.
HELLHOUSE (:10666) — Brutal Doom Community Expansion, Ultra-Violence, filler bots. It rotates seasons: new mapsets and gamemodes — co-op and survival — every few days. One install, every season.
Zandronum 3.2.1 — this exact version. Newer or older won't connect. Bundled with Doomseeker on Windows for free, or grab the portable pack above.
You supply your own doom2.wad — the commercial IWAD. Steam, GOG, your dusty '94 boxed copy. We can't (and won't) host it. Everything else? Auto-downloads.
Skipping the portable pack? Fair. Here's the manual route — four steps, most take longer to read than to do.
doom2.wad into the Zandronum install folder (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\Zandronum\). First launch, point Doomseeker's IWAD path at that folder.
94.72.111.66 port 10666. Hit OK. HELLHOUSE jumps to the top of the list, highlighted orange.Two paths into HELLHOUSE. The portable pack is the recommended one — engine + mod + a launcher in one zip that finds your own Doom II automatically. The manual files below are for power users running custom launchers or already-installed Zandronum setups.
HELLHOUSE-Portable.zip
~127 MB · Windows · recommended
Bundles Zandronum 3.2.1 and the Brutal Doom Community Expansion. Unzip it and double-click PLAY HELLHOUSE.bat — it auto-detects your doom2.wad (Steam, GOG, common install paths), grabs the current season, and drops you straight onto the server. No install.
HELLHOUSE on the public list and double-click. It auto-downloads the Brutal Doom mod (plus the season's mapset, if any). Live on 94.72.111.66:10666.
Not who's online — who's earned a place. Every soul who's put in the time and become known to the house, in or out of the server right now. No frag counts. No K/D. Just identity: tiers earned in blood, titles earned in deeds. The record remembers.
Tiers climb with time served: Fresh Meat → Marauder → Veteran → Slayer → Hellbound. Titles are earned, not bought. ● in the server now · ☠ out for now. ♛ apex of the house.
Every death in the house, tallied. This is what's actually killing you — and which demon is the worst of them all.
This isn't a brochure — it's a lever. Post a bounty and the house broadcasts it to everyone in hell, live, over Hell Radio. Leave a word for the man who runs the place. Reach in and touch the server.
Put a price on a demon's head. Accepted bounties broadcast in-game the moment you post — the players hear it on Hell Radio.
When the floor's open, the crowd picks the next map on the server. The house obeys.
Straight to the man who runs the house. No account. No Discord. Just say it.
Six things that go wrong, and how to unfuck them.
doom2.wad into the Zandronum folder. Make sure Doomseeker's IWAD path covers that folder. We can't supply it.brutalv21.50.0.pk3 from our host and drop it in the same folder as the IWAD.F5 to refresh the master.Compat_ClientsSendFullButtonInfo true server-side — if it still flickers, re-join.Paste this to a mate. Everything they need in one block.
HELLHOUSE — Brutal Doom co-op Easiest: portable pack → rigzhouse.co.uk/doom/wads/HELLHOUSE-Portable.zip unzip & double-click PLAY HELLHOUSE.bat — it finds your Doom II + connects. Manual: 1. Install Zandronum 3.2.1 → https://zandronum.com/download 2. Put your own doom2.wad in the Zandronum folder 3. Doomseeker → Custom Servers → Add → 94.72.111.66 : 10666 4. Double-click HELLHOUSE (mod auto-downloads the first time) Must be Zandronum 3.2.1. You bring doom2.wad; everything else downloads itself.