John Romero’s Doom ‘Mod’ Sigil Has Been Delayed Until Early May

John Romero, one of the programmers behind the original 25-year-old shooter game Doom, reports that the Sigil game has been completed, but that the game won’t be released until early May. Sigil is more or less the unofficial sequel to the episode where the original Doom ended.

John Romero let us know that Sigil is finished, but that there are still some production problems with the so-called Beast Box version. This is the most expensive paid limited edition of the game, costing $166 and includes all sorts of physical extras, such as a 16GB stick containing the game that looks like a 3.5″ floppy disk. There will also be a cheaper Big Box version and a free version of the game.

Romero says he won’t be able to release the free version until the Beast Box versions ship out. These will be shipped in the first week of May. The free version will be released a week after that, so that paying customers will be the first to get the chance to get started with Sigil. The game should have been released in February, but that was then postponed to April. Production problems were also mentioned at that time.

Sigil picks up the story where the fourth episode of the original game ended. Romero previously indicated that the game can be considered the ‘unofficial successor’ to this fourth episode. The game contains nine maps for single player and nine fields for multiplayer. Sigil comes in the form of a Doom megawad file, allowing only owners of the original 1993 version of Doom to play it.