Washington Prime is a new shooter running on GZDoom, but instead of demons or medieval cults, it leans hard into movies like Heat, Cop Land, and Clear and Present Danger for its tone and pacing. The result is a more grounded, paranoid conspiracy story that still lets you blow a lot of things to pieces.
You play Blake Kincaid, a former special agent who left the life behind to become a real estate guy, only to get dragged back in when a friend disappears in Washington State. Missions are built around stakeouts, tense infiltrations, and urban shootouts rather than monster closets, with locations like malls, construction sites, and corporate campuses standing in for the usual hellscapes. There is a clear love for that mid-budget “adult thriller” vibe here, right down to the clean typography and rainy night lighting in the trailer.
Under the hood, it is still GZDoom, which means modern resolutions and plenty of room for tricksy level design. The Steam page promises partial controller support, and flags it firmly as an indie project, but the presentation is well above “weekend WAD jam,” helped by experience from previous map work and community projects. Ultra CDG is keeping the release date TBA for now, but there is already a Discord and social presence spinning up around it.
What makes Washington Prime interesting is not just that it is another retro FPS, but one that probably contains a parking garage shootout. Plus, look at those delightfully cheap FMVs in the trailer. If the final game sticks the landing, this could be the rare GZDoom project that rises above “DOOM-like.”
Source: Steam via Time Extension
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