As most of you already know by now, I (Robin Ek, TGG) am a huge fan of “Doom” and “Brutal Doom“. So as you might remember, I did a review for Sergeant Mark IV’s “Brutal Doom 64” last year  where I gave the game a 4.5/5 grade (don’t forget to check out my “Brutal Doom 64” gameplay video!). Well, guess what? I just found out via Andrew Hulshult that “Brutal Doom 64” won the “Fan Creation Of The Year” award at SXSW Gaming Awards 17:

“Thanks to everyone who voted and gave Brutal Doom 64 the win for SGtMarkIV!  Accepting the “Fan Creation Of The Year” award at the IGN SXSW awards for SGtMarkIV” – Andrew Hulshult

I’m very happy to hear this, but I can’t say that I’m all that surprised. Because “Brutal Doom 64” became extremely popular in a very short period of time (the mod has an 8.3/10 average grade and a 113 of 28,998 popularity ranking via modDB.com). Furthermore, people who weren’t even interested in “Doom 64” gave “Brutal Doom 64” a try, and they loved the game! (like my brothers, for example). In other words, it was just a matter of time before “Brutal Doom 64” were to win an award for something. Anyways, congratulations to Sergeant Mark IV to his “Fan Creation Of The Year” award =) And may he create many more awesome mods and games in the future.

Source:
SXSW Gaming Awards

Robin “V-Act” Ek
Editor in chief
The Gaming Ground
Twitter: @TheGamingGround

More by Robin Ek:

• New Old Pixels is to bring the original ‘Toki’ arcade game, to original retro hardware
• The 2D pixel art PvPvE extraction shooter, ‘Project S.U.N.D.I.A.L.’, is coming to Steam on April 27th
• The 1-4 player egg cracking adventure, ‘CRACK’, is coming to Steam on October 26th
• The unique horror game ‘Hoarder’ is coming to Steam in 2027
• The cozy first-person warehouse sim ‘BOB LOGISTICS’ is coming to Steam in Q4 2026

Tags: Andrew Hulshult, Brutal Doom, Brutal Doom 64, Indie games, Sergeant Mark IV, SXSW Gaming Awards 17