After its founding, id developed further shareware computer games in the Commander Keen series for Apogee Software, as well as a series of small games for Softdisk, before releasing the "grandfather …

Dec 14, 2025 · In 1992, Wolfenstein 3D would break onto the scene to establish id Software as a genre-creating game development powerhouse. A year later, Doom was released. These early, …

Aug 3, 2025 · "We had a technology that no one had yet on the PC, that had been sitting there, ready to be taken advantage of," Romero said of id's early days and the juice behind Commander Keen, its …

Apr 17, 2020 · Releasing in December 1990, the game was a massive success and made more in sales than Apogee’s monthly income by nearly tenfold. This was the team’s first game since founding id …

May 15, 2025 · The first fantasy first-person shooter from id Software since the foundational Catacomb 3-D, Orcs & Elves is a fairly solid first-person action adventure game that originally released for …

Aug 24, 2025 · Wolfenstein was also id’s first VGA game, and its use of haunting, realistic Sound Blaster effects was groundbreaking at the time. It inspired successful sequels such as Spear of Destiny— …

Wolfenstein and Doom In 1992, the highly-acclaimed Wolfenstein 3D was released, and it was the starting point for id's focus on first-person shooters. After creating a sequel, Spear of Destiny (1992), …

Aug 4, 2025 · Wolfenstein 3D was the first time we could say, ‘We’re going to take as long as it takes to make a game.’ Before that, it was always two months. We made games for two months for about a …

During its early days, id Software produced much more varied games; these include the early 3D first-person shooter experiments that led to Wolfenstein 3D and Doom – Hovertank 3D and Catacomb 3D.

id Software is an American video game developer founded in February 1991 by the former Gamer's Edge team at Softdisk (succeded by the later founders of JAM Productions), and are credited with …