Doom: The Dark Ages
DOOM: The Dark Ages is the prequel to the critically acclaimed DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal that tells an epic cinematic story worthy of the DOOM Slayer’s legend. Players will step into the blood-stained boots of the DOOM Slayer, in this never-before-seen dark and sinister medieval war against Hell.
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- Released
- 2025
- Developer
- Not recorded
- Platforms
- 3 systems
- Critics
- Not scored
- Steam Deck
- verified
- Download
- 100 GB
What is Doom: The Dark Ages?
DOOM: The Dark Ages is the prequel to the critically acclaimed DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal that tells an epic cinematic story worthy of the DOOM Slayer’s legend. Players will step into the blood-stained boots of the DOOM Slayer, in this never-before-seen dark and sinister medieval war against Hell.
Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.
The record
| First released | 15 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Not recorded |
| Publisher | Bethesda Softworks |
| Platforms | PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, Steam Deck |
| Genres | First-Person Shooter |
| Languages | 15 supported |
Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q126091569, seeded 30 August 2026. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.
How was Doom: The Dark Ages received?
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
Seeing
- Color Alternatives
- Subtitle Options
Hearing
- Surround Sound
Input
- Full controller support
- Playable without Timed Input
Difficulty
- Adjustable Difficulty
Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
What does it support?
| Capability | Support |
|---|---|
| Controller | full support |
| Cloud saves | Yes |
| Cross-platform play | No |
| Mod support | No official workshop |
| Online play | Single-player only |
| In-game purchases | No |
| Steam Deck | verified |
| Download size | 100 GB |
| Add-on content | 2 DLC listed |
| Age gate | 17+ |
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?
Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.
Is Doom: The Dark Ages worth it?
88% of 45,465 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. It costs $69.99 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: The Dark Ages? How long to beat it
Total play time for Doom: The Dark Ages is about 24.5 hours to do everything, and around 14.3 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.
| How you play | Hours | Players logged |
|---|---|---|
| Just the main story: straight through the critical path | 14.3h | 412 |
| Main + the extras: story plus the side content most people do | 19.4h | 662 |
| Completionist: everything: 100% the game | 24.5h | 467 |
At its current price of $69.99, beating the main story works out to about $4.89 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: The Dark Ages system requirements
The minimum requirements from Doom: The Dark Ages's Steam page. These are what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings.
| Memory | 16 GB RAM (other games at this level) |
|---|---|
| Processor | AMD Zen 2 |
| Graphics | NVIDIA |
| Storage | 100 GB (more games this size) |
| System | 64-bit OS required |
Where Doom: The Dark Ages 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.
- Multi-platform
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How positions are decided
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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: The Dark Ages
These are estimates, not reported figures. The publisher has not published unit sales for Doom: The Dark Ages, 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.
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.
| Reviews on Steam | 45,465 |
|---|---|
| Sales per review | 30 to 60 |
| List price | $69.99 |
| Assumed average selling price | 33% 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 the publisher 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: The Dark Ages price & deals: is it on sale?
We have one reading so far: $69.99 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.
Latest Doom: The Dark Ages updates & patch notes
Pulled from Doom: The Dark Ages's own Steam feed on 5 September 2026. Posts marked as from the studio were written by the developer; the rest are articles Steam syndicated from elsewhere. Every one links to its source.
- Ветеран id Software Крис Хейс: Microsoft фундаментально не понимает разработку игр, Xbox Game Pass уничтожает продажи
- Update 4 Hotfix 2
- "There are no benefits to being owned by Microsoft": Xbox owners accused of cultivating a "disposable worker mentality" in damning report on layoffs
- Update 4 Hotfix 1
- DOOM: The Dark Ages and Digimon Story Time Stranger have Denuvo DRM removed
- Инсайдер: id Software занимается новой DOOM
What readers say about Doom: The Dark Ages
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: The Dark Ages 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.
- Performance and stutter31 of 300 (10%)
one of the worst dooms if my opinion it has vary poor optimization and can barley runs with 8 gb of video ram and there's no glory kills if anything its like a Serious Sam clone with more mechanics not for me but i see how people can like it
Steam review, 2 August 2026 · 1 hours played · 4 readers marked it helpfulOnce upon a time DOOM stood for a hallmark FPS entry that rewarded players that enjoyed shooting demons.
Steam review, 8 July 2026 · 27 hours played · 4 readers marked it helpful - Crashes and freezes13 of 300 (4%)
I had several crashes, and performance just doesn't feel as good as eternal despite it also somehow looking worse.
Steam review, 2 July 2026 · 8 hours played · 45 readers marked it helpfulThe game is fun, just wish it didn't crash every 15 minutes.
Steam review, 16 August 2026 · 15 hours played · 1 readers marked it helpful - Will not launch or install11 of 300 (4%)
we launch the game again and DUN DUN DUNNN we get a black screen.
Steam review, 8 August 2026 · 4 hours played · 3 readers marked it helpfulNow that the DLC is live, I can't access it, but people who paid $10 less get all the same content including earlier access evidently because the DLC won't launch for many deluxe owners.
Steam review, 7 July 2026 · 38 hours played · 3 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: The Dark Ages
24 games overlap with Doom: The Dark Ages on the tags Steam players applied to it, on genre, and on theme. The closest are Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, RoboCop: Rogue City and DOOM.
Part of the Doom series
Doom: The Dark Ages is one of 5 Doom games we track. See the whole series ranked by the GamingPickz Score, plotted on the grid, and listed in release order:
Doom: The Dark Ages head to head
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Common questions about Doom: The Dark Ages
What platforms is Doom: The Dark Ages on?
Doom: The Dark Ages is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, Steam Deck. It first released in 2025.
How much does Doom: The Dark Ages cost?
$69.99 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: The Dark Ages?
88% of 45,465 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: The Dark Ages work on Steam Deck?
Valve rates Doom: The Dark Ages as verified on the Steam Deck, from its own testing. That means it works out of the box with no configuration.
How big is the Doom: The Dark Ages download?
100 GB on PC, from the storage requirement on its Steam listing. Console versions differ.
Is Doom: The Dark Ages worth it in 2026?
88% of 45,465 Steam reviews are positive (Very Positive), and it is $69.99 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: The Dark Ages on sale?
Not at the moment. Doom: The Dark Ages is at its $69.99 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: The Dark Ages?
At minimum, Doom: The Dark Ages needs 16 GB RAM, a AMD Zen 2, a NVIDIA, 100 GB of storage, 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: The Dark Ages?
about 14.3 hours for the main story, 19.4 hours with the main extras, 24.5 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: The Dark Ages worth the money?
At $69.99 for about 14.3 hours to beat the main story, Doom: The Dark Ages works out to roughly $4.89 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.