DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part Two
DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part Two
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DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part One
Developer id Software
The Ancient Gods – Part One is the first campaign expansion for the critically acclaimed DOOM Eternal. From the Steam store page
313 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
56
Mixed
102 positive · 80 negative
95% range 49–63%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 102 | 80 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 34 | 8 | 59 |
| Lemmy * | 3 | 2 | 17 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 2 | 5 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
2,866 of 4,102 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
56% recommend · 103 yes, 80 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 183 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (4,309 of 6,493 positive).
A few players express frustration with specific design choices, such as enemy spam and overpowered foes. [1][2][3][4]
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- [3]
Can't recommend this at all. Some people will say this DLC is too difficult and that's why it's bad, it's not. The real reason is overly long combat encounters filled with enemies that force you to use specific attachments/weapons which goes against the core gameplay loop of the base game. The developers took too much feedback from the hardcore modded Doom players when designing this DLC and just thought "Longer …
- [11]
Congrats, ID. You've found the line that separates "challenging but rewarding" and "hair-pullingly annoying and unfair", and you've stepped right over it. **** this DLC.
- [15]
This community is filled with babies. It’s slightly harder than the base game, yet almost every "Not Recommended" review is just someone whining about the difficulty rather than the content itself. It assumes you’ve mastered the base game and picks up right where it left off—without mercy. If that’s a problem, turn the difficulty down, grandpa. As for the levels? So far, they play great. I’m loving the arenas—not so …
- [16]
There's a 99% chance that when someone says TAG Part One is bad, they suffer from a skill issue. This DLC isn't meant for newcomers or casuals, and I wouldn't have it any other way. This DLC very smoothly ups the difficulty by throwing more enemies at you, giving you harder areas to traverse while fighting, and introducing new, extremely tough enemies. DOOM Eternal is a game that gets better and better the harder it …
- [1]
this one left me feeling tired instead of accomplished, way too punishing and some parts were straight up ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. for context I beat the main game on ultra violence and then on nightmare then I played this on nightmare, in the main game there are difficult parts and easy parts, but this one is only difficult every part feels like a gauntlet and that just left me feeling drained. I like the marauder but two of …
Summarised from 34 of the 294 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
56% of the 183 Steam reviewers we collected recommend DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part One. The complaint that keeps coming up: overly difficult and punishing, even for veterans. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Reactions
60 of 313 · most liked firstDoom Eternal, it's sequel, is the game every reviewer uses for PC benchmarking because how tightly optimized the game is. This studio is the gold standard. Like this feels like a crime.
positive · AI labelView post →gamers and gamer adjacents, i am trying to find a new game to immerse in. here are my last 5 games, all beloved: Doom Eternal Ori And The Blind Forest Ori And The Will Of The Wisps Metroid Dread Zelda: TOTK i have Hollow Knight and BOTW and have been considering Diablo 4. Any suggestions?
neutral · AI labelView post →> Doom 2016 launches "Their next game will absolutely be Quake!" > Doom: Eternal launches "Their next game will absolutely be Quake!" > Doom: The Dark Ages launches "Their next game will absolutely be Quake!" > Doom: Infinite Warfare launches "Their name game will...."
neutral · AI labelView post →Lemmy is God!. Playing Doom Eternal and the UAC avatar told me some truth.
positive · AI labelView post →Happy 5th Anniversary to Doom Eternal! @crimsongodot.bsky.social and I cooked up this collab piece to celebrate our favorite game!
neutral · AI labelView post →Having beaten Pragmata and now going through the post game content, I'm confident in believing that it's basically slower and more whimsical Doom Eternal.
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyone else get bored once they reach the final boss?. For some reason as soon as I get to the "end" of the game, I completely lose motivation to play. This happened with DOOM: Eternal, Sekiro, Bloodborne, Paper Mario TTYD, Cassette Beasts, Shovel Knight, Oblivion, Baldur's Gate, God of War, Mass Effect... Pretty much every game I've ever played. It's like the fun part was the journey, and I've seen everything the game has to offer, and I just don't really enjoy the ending process. Feels like a…
neutral · AI labelView post →I am looking for any DOOM and DOOM Eternal enjoyers to brighten up my Bluesky feed 😁 Artists, players, streamers, memers and everything in between! If you do DOOM, hit us up!
neutral · AI labelView post →Today alone I've seen several people claim Doom Eternal was widely hated and nearly killed the series. The highest-rated, biggest-selling game in the series was clearly what sank it. Yeah. That sounds like a totally rational person would say.
positive · AI labelView post →Rollerdrome (my GOTY 2022) and some other games are leaving Game Pass at the end of the month. If you haven't yet, do yourself a favour and *play Rollerdrome* - it's like if DOOM Eternal and Tony Hawk had a beautiful baby. (Read more: Eurogamer)
neutral · AI labelView post →Steam Age Check Locks Out 65% of Adult Australians [2026]. "Steam started blocking Australian users from viewing or buying 18+ rated games on September 9, 2026, unless they attach a valid credit card to their account. Valve’s rollout affects hundreds of mature-rated titles, including Cyberpunk 2077 and Doom Eternal, and it doesn’t matter whether the account is brand new or fifteen years old with a library full of paid-for adult games. Without a credit card on file, those store pages, search…
neutral · AI labelView post →Thought of the moment: XCom 2 is the Doom Eternal of squad tactics games. A more popular, involved and technical sequel that a subset of people will loudly declare a key example of Objectively Bad Game Design That Nobody Really Likes.
neutral · AI labelView post →I interviewed the developer of Don’t Stop Girlypop to talk about Queer Art, making a glittery pink DOOM Eternal inspired shooter, and AI in game development. youtu.be/J7Sk60UDL0k?...
neutral · AI labelView post →[SOLVED] [Bazzite] Most Steam games refuse to run from secondary drive. Both drives formatted BTRFS. Windows has never been installed on either drive.. Edit: Thank you, u/[email protected], and everybody else who gave some solid advice. >The problem is the drive is mounted with the noexec flag, which is why nothing on it will run. You’ll need to change /etc/fstab to fix that. I used Gnome Disks to add the exec flag and now everything seems to be working. -- I have a desktop PC, not a…
neutral · AI labelView post →I beat Doom Eternal! . Exhilarating combat . Great pacing . Satisfying gameplay loop . Solid level design . Lousy upgrades and progression system What a fantastic game. If it had cooler and more unique ways to build your playstyle it would be perfect.
positive · AI labelView post →From my DOOM Eternal Archives! Not-shown-before Future Hell Development from early pre production for the base game! Much later and after very different iterations we wound up with the DLC: Ancient Gods Part 2 level Immora (A techno metropolis) Artstation: www.artstation.com/artwork/Ov63k8?
neutral · AI labelView post →Numskull Pinky Doom Eternal in-Game Collectible Replica Posable Toy Figure is $14.87 on Amazon or $11.15 if you have a listed coupon amzn.to/3nVt5y7 #ad
neutral · AI labelView post →Doom Eternal is $9.99 on US PSN buff.ly/423Idig Switch Digital $10 Walmart buff.ly/4jSXtEW also on PS+ Extra/Game Pass Standard
neutral · AI labelView post →You could make a first person Mega Man game and have it just be a copy of Doom Eternal and it'd fuck considerably hard
neutral · AI labelView post →Glad you guys liked this one. I REALLY like DOOM Eternal. F-k ID software and how they treated Mick Gordon, but aside from that, great game and greater music. Butters up the sweaty boomer shooter ADHD brain I have. Just wanted to yap about DOOM Eternal to be honest. lol
positive · AI labelView post →Doom: The Dark Ages is id Software’s ‘biggest launch’ ever, Bethesda says. The publisher claims the game has reached 3 million players "7x faster" than Doom Eternal. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/doom-th...
neutral · AI labelView post →I hated Doom Eternal. I rarely 'hate' a game, being a person who loves the art of games design and who explores games of all standards for their gems of joy. But I hated Eternal.
negative · AI labelView post →Playing Doom Eternal and man i forgot how much aura this game has
positive · AI labelView post →MS shot itself in the foot: MS gutted the team, then the game didn't come out right and this resulted in bad sales. Here are the Steam sales numbers: * [DOOM (2016)](https://gamesensor.info/app/379720): 5.4M * [DOOM Eternal](https://gamesensor.info/app/782330): 4.7M * [DOOM: The Dark Ages](https://gamesensor.info/app/3017860): 1.2M
neutral · AI labelView post →BE3, Bethesda's E3 showcase event, in LA, circa 2019. Two years before the Xbox acquisition. Folks playing DOOM Eternal six months before the game launched. Immaculate vibes
neutral · AI labelView post →DOOM Eternal is $3.99 on Steam buff.ly/c2i1MSm $9.99 XBL Game Pass discount buff.ly/UzfW9F9 Deck playable also on Game Pass Standard/PS+ Extra
neutral · AI labelView post →Can't recommend this at all. Some people will say this DLC is too difficult and that's why it's bad, it's not. The real reason is overly long combat encounters filled with enemies that force you to use specific attachments/weapons which goes against the core gameplay loop of the base game. The developers took too much feedback from the hardcore modded Doom players when designing this DLC and just thought "Longer more tedious combat is harder, so lets do that!". Doing this didn't challenge my…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Happy 5th anniversary to Doom Eternal, have some of my favorite fanart throughout the years. This game really made a huge impact on my life. #doom #doometernal
positive · AI labelView post →DOOM ETERNAL is not just the best Doom game, it's one of the best games ever made. Sleek, tightly tuned, unrelenting, and brutal as hell. Mick Gordon's soundtrack is all bangers. We will never see the Doom franchise hit this height again - and it never needs to. Happy 6th, DOOM ETERNAL.
positive · AI labelView post →I want to love Doom The Dark Ages, which I accidentally keep calling Doom Eternal. It's a much better game than Doom Eternal in every respect, but I think id took the lesson "a story should be happening around doomguy that he doesn't care about" away from "doomguy, THE PLAYER, doesn't care"
neutral · AI labelView post →Having to play around restrictions is a good thing, and makes the game interesting, and that's why Doom Eternal is a billion times better than 2016
positive · AI labelView post →[GOG] DOOM Eternal ($9.99 / 75% off). The GOG version of DOOM Eternal does not require a BethesdaNet account for offline play. The startup login popup can be skipped by [double-clicking Esc button](https://support.gog.com/hc/articles/35107673039389).
neutral · AI labelView post →$6 for my 2023 game of the year is insane. If you like games like Doom Eternal this is a must play!
neutral · AI labelView post →[archive] Outfit August - 2020 edition. Day 17: Mars Mission It was 2020 and DOOM Eternal had release just a few months prior, quickly launching itself to my game of the year. So Mars Mission could only mean Demon Slaying to me 😂 #outfitaugust2020 #art
positive · AI labelView post →Additional Onimusha thought: While many have invoked Sekiro (and they're not wrong - it kinda feels like the melee of that expanded in all directions), the general structure and vibe of the game feels like a melee counterpart to Doom Eternal/Dark Ages. Same counter-heavy, push-forwards combat flow!
neutral · AI labelView post →Steam deck FPS game weapon switching. How do you prefer to do it? I find the weapon wheels to be way too clunky especially when playing games like Doom Eternal. I've been using the back buttons. Regular press for 1 2 3 4 and long press 225ms for 5 6 7 8. For some games a button chord for 9 and 10 but that's rarely needed. 225 ms delay seems like a sweet spot. It's short enough to switch guns quickly but long enough to make it different from a regular press. I think it would be even better…
neutral · AI labelView post →I wish I could recommend the TAG DLC's, but honestly I just can't. Frankly I've had such a poor time with TAG Pt. 1 that I struggle to see myself bothering with Pt. 2 at all. In short, my issue is this; The Ancient Gods is is Doom Eternal finally overstaying its welcome, and offering me nothing meaningful to make me want to put up with it any longer. Let me tell you something reader - I've been on something of a Doom marathon the past few weeks. I blitzed my way through Doom (2016) in about…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[Microsoft Store via Prime] DOOM Eternal, take on Hell's armies.. Hell's armies have invaded Earth. Become the Slayer in an epic single-player campaign to conquer demons across dimensions and stop the final destruction of humanity. The only thing they fear... is you. Experience the ultimate combination of speed and power in DOOM Eternal - the next leap in push-forward, first-person combat. **Slayer Threat Level At Maximum**\ Armed with a shoulder-mounted flamethrower, retractable…
neutral · AI labelView post →Doom Eternal 🔥 Each new mission hits me with a new stunning skybox. This game is gorgeous!
positive · AI labelView post →Beat The Ancient Gods Part 2, DOOM Eternal is fully done! THIS GAME IS PHENOMENAL!!!
positive · AI labelView post →ATTENTION, ALL DOOM ETERNAL FANS I HAVE OFFENDED IN THE PAST: I apologize, this game is actually pretty sick lol
positive · AI labelView post →Finally getting around to Doom Eternal after all this time How many fuckin upgrade currencies does one game need lmao
neutral · AI labelView post →Doom Eternal is a finished game
neutral · AI labelView post →did a couple more chapters of Doom Eternal this morning, damn this game is so much fun.
positive · AI labelView post →Share some of your favorite game OSTs OKHLOS Katamari Damacy Splatoon 2 DOOM Eternal
neutral · AI labelView post →more tedious than fun tbh. endless demons, multiple rounds on the same arena... not compelling enough
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bethesda wont make it to 2026 more likely after their inhuman comments so dont even bother with their vile games . RIP-Charlie Kirk
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think Doom Eternal is the last time a modern game gave me that kind of rush
positive · AI labelView post →TERRIBLE LEVEL DESIGN! Some of the jumping challenges are just way too punishing and to intentionally make you go mad. So whoever designed those: ♥♥♥♥ YOU !!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Congrats, ID. You've found the line that separates "challenging but rewarding" and "hair-pullingly annoying and unfair", and you've stepped right over it. **** this DLC.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun fact: this game has one of the most deranged fan crossovers. Because _DOOM Eternal_ released on the same date as _Animal Crossing: New Horizons_, fans leaned into it _hard_. Look up “Eternal Horizons” on YouTube. There’s a bunch of content like that. Damn shame they never did anything official on the _DOOM_ side. (_Animal Crossing_ couldn’t because of its lower age rating, but you best believe there are a bunch of _DOOM_ designs online, that you can add to stuff in-game.)
neutral · AI labelView post →The mixed rating from users is overall fair and, while I expected worse, I ultimately decided to go for a thumbs down (even if, as usual, I wish Valve allowed a third rating with a thumb held horizontally). Credit where it’s due: I went in expecting to see recycled assets, and instead the three environments are truly new. The first is set on giant rigs in the ocean and then even underwater; the second is the swamps of Hell, which are inhospitable but really cool and even remind me a bit of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bethesda is now supporting terrorism.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolutely atrocious This DLC ups the difficulty significantly, which by itself is not a bad thing, but part of the way it does it is by upping the quantity and the convolution of the platforming, as well as adding poorly designed bosses. The story is interesting (even if it doesn't feel like Doom that much) and the new environments are cool, but that doesn't negate how awful the levels feel at times.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Doom Eternal is the only game to get OTs right unfortunately
positive · AI labelView post →Never will play a bethesda games any more. very sick a producer under betheda celebrated chairlie kirks death, needs to be fired
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's actually crazy how this DLC feels so crazy chaotic yet becomes an absolute slog to get through. The arenas go on for way, way, way too long. Seriously, it is so unimaginably frustrating to go through a 15+ minute arena, mess up something or run into a bug, then have to start all over again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Ancient Gods Part 01 is a geat expansion to DOOM Eternal! However, if you're not comfortable in playing hard games, or games in hard difficulty in general, you should enable cautions, as this story expansion will test your sanity, so unless and until you wanna some extra challenges or stress in your life then start playing the expansion. Also the level design felt toned down compared to the main game! But yeah this expansion continues the story , so you need to play this if you wanna…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Entire dlc was a chore and boss fights were more tedious than difficult.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →boring and repetitive. Only buy on a really big discount
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