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Doom 64

Play the enhanced version of the original game released on the Nintendo 64 in 1997. Years have passed since you stopped Hell’s invasion of Earth. Quarantined for humanity’s safety, the UAC research facilities on Mars were abandoned and forgotten...until now.

First-Person ShooterHorror

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Would you recommend it?
Player score
9.3/10
8,793 reviews
Released
1997
Developer
Midway Games
Platforms
2 systems
Critics
Not scored
Steam Deck
playable
Download
Not stated
We have not written a full review of this game.This is a catalogue entry: everything below comes from a source we can link, checked on a stated date. There is no score and no verdict here, because we only publish those after a reviewer has played the game and written it up properly. Our team may well have played this one. Until someone writes the review, we are not going to imply a verdict we have not put our name to.

What is Doom 64?

Play the enhanced version of the original game released on the Nintendo 64 in 1997. Years have passed since you stopped Hell’s invasion of Earth. Quarantined for humanity’s safety, the UAC research facilities on Mars were abandoned and forgotten...until now.

Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.

The record

Catalogue facts
First released31 March 1997
DeveloperMidway Games
PublisherBethesda Softworks, Midway Games
PlatformsNintendo 64, Steam Deck
GenresFirst-Person Shooter, Horror
Languages5 supported

Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q1071278, seeded 30 August 2026. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.

How was Doom 64 received?

Players93%positive of 8,793 · Very Positive
Achievements10on Steam

Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.

Accessibility

6 declared features

Seeing

None declared

Hearing

  • Stereo Sound
  • Surround Sound

Input

  • Partial Controller Support
  • Keyboard Only Option
  • Playable without Timed Input

Difficulty

  • Save Anytime

Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.

What does it support?

Technical support
CapabilitySupport
Controllerpartial support
Cloud savesYes
Cross-platform playNo
Mod supportNo official workshop
Online playSingle-player only
In-game purchasesNo
Steam Deckplayable
Download sizeNot stated
Add-on contentNone listed
Age gate17+

Content descriptors

  • Frequent violence or gore
  • General mature content

Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.

What does it cost?

$4.99

Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.

Is Doom 64 worth it?

93% of 8,793 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. It costs $4.99 on Steam.

That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. Players do report problems — see the reported-problems section below before buying. We have not published our own review of this game.

How long is Doom 64? How long to beat it

Total play time for Doom 64 is about 10.5 hours to do everything, and around 7.1 hours to reach the end of the main story. These are player-submitted times from HowLongToBeat, not our own, shown with the number of players behind each.

Doom 64 length by how much you play
How you playHoursPlayers logged
Just the main story: straight through the critical path7.1h291
Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do9.2h152
Completionist: everything: 100% the game10.5h127

At its current price of $4.99, beating the main story works out to about $0.70 per hour. That is the price divided by the hours, a value read and not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being the better game.

Source: HowLongToBeat community submissions, read 2026-10-19.

Doom 64 system requirements

The minimum requirements from Doom 64's Steam page. These are what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings.

Doom 64 minimum requirements
Memory8 GB RAM (other games at this level)
ProcessorIntel Core i5-750
GraphicsR7 240
System64-bit OS required

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Where Doom 64 sits on the grid

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Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.

Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.

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  • Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.

Estimated sales for Doom 64

These are estimates, not reported figures. Midway Games has not published unit sales for Doom 64, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.

264K–528KEstimated copies soldon Steam, lifetime
$434K–$1.7MEstimated player spendbefore Valve's cut
$304K–$1.2MEstimated to the publisherafter the 30% platform cut

How this was calculated

Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.

Sales estimate working
Reviews on Steam8,793
Sales per review30 to 60
List price$4.99
Assumed average selling price33% to 66% of list

What this cannot tell you

Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.

The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.

The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.

Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.

If Midway Games publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.

Doom 64 price & deals: is it on sale?

We have one reading so far: $4.99 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.

What readers say about Doom 64

Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.

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Problems players report

We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of Doom 64 on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.

  1. Performance and stutter12 of 300 (4%)

    It's a curio in DOOM's history, a spinoff from one of the most famous and beloved PC FPS games relegated to a console for decades.

    Steam review, 17 April 2024 · 10 hours played · 7 readers marked it helpful

    This is not an FPS, it's a puzzle game, a bad one.

    Steam review, 2 December 2024 · 6 hours played · 4 readers marked it helpful
  2. Crashes and freezes10 of 300 (3%)

    this game crashes every time I play this

    Steam review, 25 June 2021 · 1 hours played · 2 readers marked it helpful

    everytime i started the damn game it would crash.

    Steam review, 28 May 2021 · 0 hours played · 2 readers marked it helpful

A further 6 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.

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Games like Doom 64

24 games overlap with Doom 64 on the tags Steam players applied to it, on genre, and on theme. The closest are Quake, Quake II and DOOM II.

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Part of the Doom series

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Common questions about Doom 64

What platforms is Doom 64 on?

Doom 64 is available on Nintendo 64, Steam Deck. It first released in 1997.

How much does Doom 64 cost?

$4.99 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.

Do players recommend Doom 64?

93% of 8,793 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.

Does Doom 64 work on Steam Deck?

Valve rates Doom 64 as playable on the Steam Deck, from its own testing.

Who made Doom 64?

Doom 64 was developed by Midway Games and published by Bethesda Softworks, Midway Games.

Is Doom 64 worth it in 2026?

93% of 8,793 Steam reviews are positive (Very Positive), and it is $4.99 on steam. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.

Is Doom 64 on sale?

Not at the moment. Doom 64 is at its $4.99 list price on Steam, read on 30 August 2026. It has been cheaper before; the price history above shows when.

What are the system requirements for Doom 64?

At minimum, Doom 64 needs 8 GB RAM, a Intel Core i5-750, a R7 240, from its Steam listing. That is what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings. Check it against your own PC on the can-I-run page.

How long does it take to beat Doom 64?

about 7.1 hours for the main story, 9.2 hours with the main extras, 10.5 hours to complete everything, from HowLongToBeat's player-submitted times. These are community medians, so your own run may be shorter or longer.

Is Doom 64 worth the money?

At $4.99 for about 7.1 hours to beat the main story, Doom 64 works out to roughly $0.70 per hour. That is a value read, not a verdict: a longer game costs less per hour, which is not the same as being better. Weigh it against the review sentiment above.