Cacowards 2019

The 2019 Cacowards is the sixteenth annual Cacowards feature, released by Doomworld on December 10, 2019. It was written by Andrew Stine (Linguica), Boris Klimeš (dew), Demon of the Well, Major Arlene, Not Jabba, rdwpa, Marisa Kirisame, and Stephen Browning (Scuba Steve). There were ten runners-up.

Winners

 * Eviternity - Dragonfly et al.
 * Verdant Citadel - exl
 * Paradise - Tango
 * Hell-Forged - Amuscaria
 * Finely Crafted Fetish Film - Ribbiks
 * Hocus Pocus Doom - rf
 * Shotgun Symphony - Steve D
 * Lost Civilization - Jaska
 * Remnant - Aurelius
 * The Wayfarer - Not Jabba

Runners-up

 * Infraworld: The Hatehammer - StormCatcher.77
 * Lunar Catastrophe - Miss Bubbles and Count651
 * The Slaughter Spectrum - Bridgeburner56
 * Darkest Room - Paul977
 * Cyb's Freaky Colonoscopy - Big Ol Billy et al.
 * Alienated - Lorenz0
 * Doom Zero - DASI-I
 * Entropy - Nirvana
 * SIGIL - John Romero
 * Doom 3: Phobos - Team Future

Multiplayer award

 * 32in24-17 - YEDS
 * NeonDM - Mechanix Union

Gameplay mod awards

 * Doom 4 Vanilla - Noiser et al.
 * Lt. Typhoon - Skelegant
 * NAKU-NARU - Naku Team

Codeaward

 * Doom Neural Upscale 2X - hidfan et al.

Mordeth award

 * Sonic Robo Blast 2 - Sonic Team Junior

Machaward

 * Mikoportals - Mikolah

Spaceship of Theseus

 * Hedon - Zan

Most promising newcomers

 * Aurelius
 * Bridgeburner56
 * Miss Bubbles & Count651
 * elend
 * RustyGold
 * NoReason
 * depr4vity

Creator of the Year

 * Ola Björling (ukiro)

Espi award

 * James Paddock (Jimmy)