Welcome to Wad Archive
Wad Archive is the largest collection of WAD information on the web. Instantly search over 66,000 WADs and 21,000 read me files for WAD links, screenshots, map listings and more with the index growing daily. The most recent 100 WADs can be viewed on the Latest WADs page or via a RSS reader with the Latest WADs RSS Feed.
Do you have a WAD that isn't in the index or want to have your site added to the index? Head over to the contact page.
Need WAD hosting? At the moment we don't have a way to upload WADs but you can upload WADs at The Ultimate Doom or at Doomshack.
Archive Size
WADs 66,179 Discs 58 Downloadable WADs 59,092 (427.34 GB) Total Downloaded 74,743 (1.56 TB) Screenshots 211,786 Links 48,360News
More formats and WAD Wall
5 May 18
There is now basic WAD2 (Quake) and WAD3 (Half-Life/Goldsrc) support. Some existing WADs have been updated to have the new format.
Also checkout WAD Wall to view a 'screensaver' style collection of random WAD screenshots. Every few seconds a new image will appear and it supports fullscreen mode
PK7 and more downloads
3 Apr 18
PK7 files are now supported and available on Wad Archive.
There is also now over 400GB of WADs that can be downloaded!
New Server
7 Mar 18
Wad Archive has been migrated to a new server and the underlying code has been completely re-written. It should now be more quicker, more stable and easier to maintain. There might still be a few issues to do with the changes so if you see any please get in contact
With the new server there is now a new category called idGames
More WADs
16 May 16
There is now over 42,000 WADs that can now be downloaded. That is a total of over 220GB in size! More are still being added every day.
In other news, Doom 4 is out now!
Downloads and comments!
15 Mar 16
Downloads are now available for nearly 35,000 WADs and PK3s directly from Wad Archive (with more being added all the time). Downloading requires a free account that can be created over on the sign up page
With an account it is also possible to post comments at the bottom of each WAD, PK3 or Disc.
