


Further, on October 16, 2021, a new version of the mod was released called The Golden Souls Remastered, which reworked the player's arsenal and tweaked the gameplay elements to more closely resemble those of Golden Souls 2, and also fully integrated the extra maps from Super Golden Souls into the main mod. On June 22, 2019, salahmander2, with Batandy's supervision, released Super Golden Souls, an expansion pack for the original mod which added some quality of life improvements to bring the mod up to standards to the newer Golden Souls 2 and 3, and also added several brand new levels. Several patches followed, with the current version of the mod, 1.4, being called the "Even More Definitive Edition". The mod was originally announced on January 1, 2013, and after several public beta versions the full release was uploaded on November 18, 2014. A sequel, Doom: The Golden Souls 2 was released in 2018. The mod is heavily inspired by the Super Mario series of games, and offers several changes to the standard Doom formula to accommodate gameplay elements more commonly found in 3D and 2D platformers, as well as a host of new graphics that harken back to its main inspiration and offer a colorful, whimsical tone. Doom: The Golden Souls (or just Golden Souls for short) is an platformer-themed Doom II mod created by Andrea Gori (Batandy) for the GZDoom source port.
