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About Wolfenstein 3D

Wolfenstein 3D is the game that made first-person shooters a genre. id Software released it in May 1992, and everything that followed — Doom, Quake, Half-Life — starts here: a maze of corridors seen through the eyes of B.J. Blazkowicz, an American spy shooting his way out of a Nazi castle, with a status bar showing his face getting progressively more beaten up.

There are six episodes of ten levels each, secret doors hidden in the walls, treasure to collect, and a boss at the end of every episode. By modern standards the maps are flat — no stairs, no looking up or down — and that constraint is exactly why it runs perfectly in a browser tab thirty years later.

How to play Wolfenstein 3D

Move

Arrow keys or W A S D

Strafe

Alt + arrows, or Q / E

Fire

Ctrl or left click

Open door / push wall

Space

Change weapon

Number keys 1–4

Run

Shift

1. Find the elevator switch at the end of each level to advance; the maps are mazes, so expect to backtrack.
2. Shoot guards, SS and dogs; each drops ammo you need for the next room.
3. Press space against walls that look different — secret rooms hold treasure, health and extra lives.
4. Collect gold, crosses, chalices and crowns for points, and blue keys and gold keys to open locked doors.
5. Each episode ends with a boss fight; save your chaingun ammo for it.

Wolfenstein 3D tips

• Open doors and step back rather than walking through — enemies on the other side get the first shot otherwise.
• The knife is silent but useless; the pistol is for ammo economy, the machine gun for groups, the chaingun for bosses.
• Push every wall in a dead end. Secret rooms are the difference between struggling and cruising.
• Dogs are fast and low — aim early, they close the distance quicker than guards.

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