On the 10th anniversary of
Doom's release, a bunch of Doomworld regulars got together and came up with a list of the
Top 100 WADs of All Time, with ten representatives from every year. Unofficially, this feature constitutes the first ten years of Doomworld's current annual institution, the
Cacowards, though the Cacowards are a bit more extended. Because these WADs come so highly recommended, they're part of my review itinerary. And, well, I figured I'd slap together a master list for visitors to leaf through. The lists are hidden via javascript; click on the headings to reveal them.
Doomworld's Cacowards aren't a definitive list of the ten best WADs of their eras, a fact detractors take care to point out. They're a good starting point, though, for those wishing to sample the cream of the crop with regards to PWADs.
1994 Top Ten WADs 
1995 Top Ten WADs
1996 Top Ten WADs
1997 Top Ten WADs
1998 Top Ten WADs
1999 Top Ten WADs
2000 Top Ten WADs
2001 Top Ten WADs
2002 Top Ten WADs
2003 Top Ten WADs
2004 Cacowards
| The Top Ten | Best DM Level | Honorable Mentions |
| Action Doom | 8-Bit DM | Super Sonic Doom |
| Decade | Worst WAD | Deus Vult |
| RTC-3057 | Doom: Rampage Edition | Massmouthmas |
| Grove | Mordeth Award | Daedalus |
| Tremor | Hellcore |
| Chosen | Mockaward |
| Phobos Revisited | Doomworld Forums 3 |
| Hell Revealed 2 | Mapper of the Year |
| Community Chest 2 | B.P.R.D. |
| ZDoom Community Map |
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2005 Cacowards
| The Top Ten | Best DM Level |
| Simplicity | Nimrod: Project Doom |
| Scythe 2 | Worst WAD |
| HedRox | 1994 WADs |
| Suspended in Dusk | Mordeth Award |
| Kama Sutra | Jägermörder 02: Terra Nova |
| Congestion 1024 | Mockaward |
| Hi-Tech Hell 2: Alien Tech | Kama Sutra |
| Temple of Chaos 2: Warped Reality | Mapper of the Year |
| Crimson Canyon | AgentSpork |
| Total Control | |
| Honorable Mentions |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Altar of Evil |
2006 Cacowards
| The Top Ten | Best DM Level |
| Phocas Island 2 | Dynamite Deathmatch |
| IC2005 | Worst WAD |
| Hellcore v2.0 | Auferstehung |
| Newdoom Community Map Project | Mordeth Award |
| Operation Overlord | Crucified Dreams |
| Vae Victus 2 | Mockaward |
| Phobia: The Age | How Not to Be Seen |
| Foreverhood v1.0 | TurboCharged Arcade! |
| Classic Episode 2: Singularity Complex | Mapper of the Year |
| Crucified Dreams | Dutch Devil |
| Honorable Mentions |
| Impossible: A New Reality | Oniria |
| Zen Dynamics |
2007 Cacowards
| The Top Ten | Best DM Level |
| Genesis of Descent | 32in24-5 |
| Cheogsh | Worst WAD |
| Songs of the Damned | Anything Gamarra |
| The Dying End | Mordeth Award |
| Sine Die | Knee Deep in ZDoom |
| Knee Deep in ZDoom | Mockaward |
| Community Chest 3 | It Only Gets Worse |
| Epic | Mapper of the Year |
| Ultimate Torment and Torture | Alexander "Eternal" S. |
| The Outer Darkness | |
| Honorable Mentions |
| Demons of Problematique | Wonderful Doom |
2008 Cacowards
| The Top Ten | Best DM Level |
| Deus Vult II | 32in24-7 |
| Gravity | Worst WAD |
| Urban Brawl: Action Doom II | UAC Military Nightmare |
| Eternal Doom IV | Mordeth Award |
| Thunderpeak | Deus Vult II |
| Back to Basics | Mockaward |
| BGPA Missions: Liberation | Community is Falling 3 |
| Chex Quest 3 | Mapper of the Year |
| Escape from Castle Chezcrea | Björn "Vader" Ostmann |
| Cold as Hell | |
| Honorable Mentions |
| Remain III | XXXI Cybersky |
| Diaz: Last Hours of Purity |
2009 Cacowards
| The Top Ten | Best DM Level |
| Hell Ground | UDMX |
| NewDoom Community Project II | Worst WAD |
| Harmony | Tormentor667's Detail Guide |
| Mapgame | Mordeth Award |
| Legacy of Suffering | Plutonia 2 |
| Tribute | Mockaward |
| Ghouls vs. Humans | Killing Adventure |
| Whispers of Satan | Mapper of the Year |
| Demons of Problematique 2 | Brett "Mechadon" Harrell |
| Plutonia 2 | |
| Honorable Mentions |
| Happy Time Circus 2 | Cheogsh 2 |
2010 Cacowards
| The Top Ten | Best Multiplayer | Runners Up |
| No Rest for the Living | Megaman Deathmatch | Beyond Revival |
| Arcadia Demade | Worst WAD | Base Ganymede ep2 |
| Curse of D'sparil | Æons of Death | Doom: Threshold of Pain |
| UAC Ultra | Mordeth Award | Realm of Cheogsh |
| Unloved | Stronghold | Serpent: Resurrection |
| Valhalla | Mockaward | Temple of the Lizard Men 2 |
| Speed of Doom | Facepalm | Paranoid |
| Drip Feed | TurboCharged ARCADE! The Sequel Episode |
| Epic 2 | Mapper of the Year |
| Stronghold | Jon "40oz" Vail |
2011 Cacowards
2012 Cacowards
2013 Cacowards
2014 Cacowards
2015 Cacowards
2016 Cacowards
2017 Cacowards
2018 Cacowards
| The Top Ten | Best Multiplayer | Runners Up |
| Avactor | Quake Champions: | Exomoon |
| Dark Universe Part 1 | Doom Edition | Man on the Moon |
| The Adventures of Square: Episode 2 | Best Gameplay Mod | Umbra of Fate |
| Preacher | Guncaster | Port Glacia |
| Dimension of the Boomed | Netronian Chaos | Magnolia |
| Struggle: Antaresian Legacy | GMOTA | The Alfonzone |
| REKKR | Mordeth Award | Ashes 2063: Episode 1 |
| Maskim Xul | Total Chaos | Demonastery |
| Doom: The Golden Souls 2 | Machaward | Doom 404 |
| UAC Invasion: The Supply Depot | Mr. Friendly | Cryogenics |
| Codeaward | Mapper of the Year |
| Doom Builder X | Revae |
2019 Cacowards
| The Top Ten | Best Multiplayer | Runners Up |
| Eviternity | 32in24-17 | Sigil |
| Verdant Citadel | NeonDM | Doom 3: Phobos |
| Paradise | Best Gameplay Mod | Infraworld: The Hatehammer |
| Hell-Forged | Doom 4 Vanilla | Lunar Catastrophe |
| Finely Crafted Fetish Film | Lt. Typhon | The Slaughter Spectrum |
| Hocus Pocus Doom | NAKU-NARU | Darkest Room |
| Shotgun Symphony | Mordeth Award | Cyb's Freaky Colonoscopy |
| Lost Civilization | Sonic Robo Blast 2 | Alienated |
| Remnant | Machaward | Doom Zero |
| The Wayfarer | Mikoportals | Entropy |
| Codeaward | Creator of the Year |
| Doom Neural Upscale 2X | Ola "Ukiro" Bjorling |
2020 Cacowards
| The Top Ten | Best Multiplayer | Runners Up |
| Antaresian Reliquary | DoomWare | Tartarus |
| Abandon | Progressive Duel 3 | Mapwich 2 |
| Rowdy Rudy 2: Powertrip | Best Gameplay Mod | Shrine 2 |
| Ar Luminae | Nobody Told Me About id | Technicolor Antichrist Box |
| Runing Late 2 | Treasure Tech | Return to Hadron E3: Slayer's Swansong |
| Bastion of Chaos | SWWM GZ | Criticality |
| Mutabor | Mordeth Award | Freaky Panties 2: Boxers or Briefs |
| Three Is a Crowd | Pacifist speedrunning | 25 Years on Earth |
| Syringe | Machaward | 180 Minutes Pour Vivre |
| Faithless Trilogy | Arbitrary code execution | Gods & Guardians |
| Codeaward | Creator of the Year | Abysm 2: Infernal Contract |
| The Unity Port | Bridgeburner | Intergalactic Xenology |
| Dootaward | |
| Bastion of Chaos OST | |
2021 Cacowards
| The Top Ten | Best Multiplayer | Runners Up |
| Heartland | Rott!Zone | Intergalactic Xenology 2 |
| Lullaby | Insanity DM | Cydonia |
| Ashes: Afterglow | Strife Co-op Project | Time Tripper, circuit 1 |
| Tarnsman's Projectile Hell | Best Gameplay Mod | Sold Soul |
| Fractured Worlds | PainSlayer | Arceon |
| Unhallowed | Widepix | I.H.N.I. episode 1 |
| Doom 2 in Spain Only | Corruption Cards | Atmospheric Extinction |
| Infraworld: Coma Moonlight | Mordeth Award | URE2020 |
| Arrival | Doom 32X Resurrection | Old Still Life |
| Haste | Machaward | Down the Drain |
| Infested | The Unmaking | Deadly Standards 3 |
| 1000 Lines 3 | Creator of the Year | Auger;Zenith |
| Codeaward | Tarnsman | RAMP |
| kraflab | Dootaward | |
| Arrival / Ashes: Afterglow | |
21 More for 2021
| Nameless | Judgment | Boaty McBoatwad |
| The Long Trek Back Home | Uprising | Perpetual Powers |
| Skulltiverse | Dungeon Synths | Zone 400 |
| Sucker Punch 2 | Tetraptykon | Ray Mohawk 2 |
| Micro Slaughter Community Project | Wormwood ]|[ | Dereliction Derby |
| Testing Pool | Bourgeois Megawad | NoSp3 |
| Literalism | Archi-TEK | The Event Horizon |
2022 Cacowards
| The Top Ten | Best Multiplayer | Runners Up |
| The Magenta Spire | Horde and Hordamex | Bellatrix |
| Jumpwad | FrantikDM2 | Solar Struggle |
| Ozonia | Best Gameplay Mod | Altars of Madness |
| Elementalism: Phase 1 | Gun Bonsai | Capybara |
| Dust Devil | Voxel Doom | Pagodia |
| Malevolence E1 | Mordeth Award | Anomaly Report |
| Don't Turn Your Back on the City | KDiKDiZD vanilla tech | 2022: A Doom Odyssey |
| KDiKDiZD | Machaward | Shallow World E1 |
| The 10x10 Project | Doom RPG port | Declared New Apocalypse |
| Overboard | Creator of the Year | Dance on the Water |
| Codeaward | Deadwing | Greenian |
| Ultimate Doom Builder / DoomTools | Dootaward |
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| Ozonia OST |
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22 More for 2022
| Occula | Atonement | Infection |
| Poogers | Pocket Slaughter | Mapping at Warpspeed |
| Nostalgia | Nensha | Sign of Torment |
| Wretched Flesh | Plutonia Revisited Community Project 2 | Hydrosphere |
| Ante Mortem Episode 1 | Caffeine Injection | Ethereal Breakdown |
| Corrupted Cistern | Azazel's Second Descent | 100 Line Massacre |
| Elysium's Curse Episode 1 | The Box of a Thousand Demons | Relyctum |
| Irkalla | |
2023 Cacowards
| The Top Ten | Best Multiplayer | Runners Up |
| Dreamblood | Culling Strike | 1x1 |
| Pina Colada | Vesper + VesperDM | Boomer: Beyond Vanilla |
| Insanity Edged | Best Gameplay Mod | El Viaje de Diciembre |
| Hardfest 2 | Doom Infinite | Veil of Darkness |
| Austrian Avian Association | Volatile Material | Solve Et Coagula |
| DBK3: Shrine of the Silver CyberPrimate | Bring Your Own Class | What Lies Beneath |
| Sepia | Rampancy | The Settlements |
| Wormwood V | Mordeth Award | Machete |
| Godless Night | TNT2: Devilution | The Diseases, and Casualties |
| Ultimate Doom in Name Only | Machaward | of This Year Being 1632 |
| TNT2: Devilution | GOODWAD | Tetanus |
| myhouse.wad | Creator of the Year | Jaded |
| Codeaward | Pieruskwurje | Head Trauma |
| Team GEC | Dootaward | Ad Mortem |
| Doot Eternal article | Glaive 3 |
| | Corruption |
23 More for 2023
| Flesharmonic | Quoth the Raven | ABSCISSION |
| Doomed: By the Hour | Fallen Leaves | Protoslayer E2 |
| Nostalgia 2 | The Cognition Engine | Junkfood 1 and 2 |
| Wretched Flesh | Deep Breath | Mudman |
| PSX Doom: The Forgotten Chapter | Deadliest Dem(o(li)ti)on | BREAK//POINT// |
| The Lost Magic | Venturous | Oubliette Fatalis |
| I CANT GIVE YOU ANYTHING | Terminal Stages of Nostalgia | Relyctum |
| Uroboros | Crusader | |
Top 25 Missed Cacowards
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