DOOM: The Dark Ages
DOOM: The Dark Ages
Game
Game2016
DOOM
Developer id Software
Doom is a 2016 first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game is the first major installment in the Doom series since 2004's Doom 3 and is a reboot of the franchise. It was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in May 2016. A port for Nintendo Switch was co-developed with Panic Button and released in November 2017, and a version for Stadia was released in… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
1,073 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
94
LovedLoved
397 positive · 24 negative
95% range 92–96%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 106 | 25 | 418 |
| Steam reviews | 397 | 24 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 8 | 1 | 59 |
| Lemmy * | 4 | 1 | 30 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Overwhelmingly Positive
114,581 of 119,934 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
94% recommend · 245 yes, 15 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 260 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (212,173 of 222,128 positive).
Players praise DOOM 2016 for its fast-paced, no-nonsense gameplay that feels like a breath of fresh air. [1][2][3] Many note the game holds up well even a decade later, with great graphics and soundtrack. [4][5][6]
Liked
Representative posts
- [13]
its a faboulous game and i really enjoyed killing demons brainlessly but then on a random tuesday i loaded the game and my game file was corrupted so 11 hours of progress lost :(. I just ended the game on a chcecpoint in mission 6 and that was the last time i played. Please fix the corruption between files.
- [1]
**Happy Birthday To The Masterpiece of the Manliest Peak Power Fantasy Action Game that revived my childhood from 33 years of gaming.....DOOM 2016** 10 years later and DOOM 2016 still feels like getting powerbombed through the floor of a burning steel cage by pure adrenaline. This game did not walk so modern shooters could run. This game kicked the front door off its hinges, chugged six gallons of gasoline, punched …
- [3]
Been hearing the hype about this game for the past decade & finally figured I'd check it out. Doom 2016 feels like such a breath of fresh air in 2026 at a time when live-service games and FOMO tactics are rampant in all of the top titles on the market. I grew up in the 2000s and early 2010s on single-player and co-op story campaigns in games and this feels like such a throwback to that simple but proven formula. No …
- [8]
Probably the best Doom game. The gameplay and gunplay is fluid. Mick Gordons soundtrack is full of bangers. And unlike the two sequels it's still a sci-fi shooter, and not a R-rated saturday morning cartoon like He-Man with dragons and knights.
- [9]
DOOM (2016) - First Impressions (No Nostalgia) I went into Doom (2016) with zero nostalgia - this is my first Doom game - so I think my perspective is pretty objective. I’m currently on Mission 8, and yeah… it’s fun. You just jump in and start destroying everything. It’s simple on the surface, and that’s exactly why it works. Good combat, fun challenges, and the game flows really nicely. I get why people love it so …
Summarised from 34 of the 387 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 10, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
94% of the 260 Steam reviewers we collected recommend DOOM. The complaint that keeps coming up: save file corruption can cause progress loss. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Upon release, Doom was positively received, with scores of 85/100 for PC and PlayStation 4, 87/100 for the Xbox One, and 79/100 on Nintendo Switch on Metacritic. The final PC version of the game received very positive reviews from users on Steam. The Nintendo Switch port was also praised in a review by Nintendo Life. The game's single-player elements received critical acclaim and were favorably compared to contemporary shooter games. Mike Henriquez of GameRevolution described the visual and artistic design as "top-notch". Sam White in The Daily Telegraph lauded Doom for its performance on all platforms, weapon design, and score. Peter Brown of GameSpot praised single-player because he…
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Reactions
60 of 1,073 · most liked firstI voice DOCTOR DOOM in MARVEL TOKON: FIGHTING SOULS, he was an absolute blast to play, i'm very psyched to be a part of this game @marveltokon.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →'DOOM: The Dark Ages' details 🎮 • No multiplayer — it’s a single-player campaign game • Largest campaign ever • Includes sequences where you fly on a dragon and control a 30-story walking mech • More story told from gameplay and cutscenes compared to previous games (via Game File)
neutral · AI labelView post →Doom is a form of mum game. Any game in which you clean the level meticulously and thoroughly before moving on and then the next time you return its a mess again is a mum game
neutral · AI labelView post →‘DOOM: The Dark Ages’ is getting a ‘full game reveal’ at the Xbox Developer Direct on January 23 🎮
neutral · AI labelView post →they released a full conversion mod of Doom for fucking Chex cereal and it remains one of the greatest video game experiences of my life you got this game out of a fucking cereal box
positive · AI labelView post →ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: Work on a DOOM GAME! I am always in awe and appreciation for any studio that wants to consult with me on a game. There are many individuals who help make accessibility happen, and I'm just so grateful to be a small tiny part of it. Thank you id Software for bringing me in!
neutral · AI labelView post →How is this game even real? It mystifies me they're doing this in the Doom engine.
positive · AI labelView post →DOOM: THE DARK AGES is a NEW DOOM GAME. DO YOU NEED MORE THAN THAT? I MADE A VIDEO: youtu.be/wydL14tOa3s
neutral · AI labelView post →Whoa. I didn't know Xbox Game Pass was free. Weird. What is this. "The problem with it was that (DOOM: The Dark Ages) was played by millions of fans, but many played it for free on Game Pass."
neutral · AI labelView post →Heard a kid say “that game Doom is really old, I think it came out in 2017?” And now I am dying, thanks
neutral · AI labelView post →DOOM: The Dark Ages launches May 15, 2025. Preorder the Premium Edition for up to 2-Days Early Access on Xbox Game Pass + Xbox Series X|S + PC + PlayStation 5 #DOOM | beth.games/4jtrIlF
neutral · AI labelView post →Gamesbeat: "The cuts came as id’s team was toying with different game ideas including a John Wick-style original game called Fury; a new game in the Perfect Dark franchise; and a multiplayer/co-op version of Doom. It’s not clear which game, if any, the remaining team can do."
neutral · AI labelView post →The story of how Rebecca Heineman overcame corporate incompetence to develop the Doom 3DO port in two and a half months is incredible (via @bghof.com) www.badgamehalloffame.com/doom-3do/
neutral · AI labelView post →this is also conceptually funny because like the only reason to play SNES Doom is to see the impressive feat of getting a cutting edge PC game running on hardware that just barely handles Wolfenstein 3D making it HD 60FPS with KB+M just means you're playing someone's Doom clone instead of real Doom
neutral · AI labelView post →I love Super Mario Bros, it's my favorite JPlatformer. Doom is a great game too, one of the best USAFPSes out there
positive · AI labelView post →Xbox said today it is shutting down four game studios: Arkane Austin (Redfall), Tango Gameworks (Hi-Fi Rush), Alpha Dog (Mighty Doom), and Roundhouse (support). The video game industry carnage continues, with no end in sight. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s not like I’m going to get to the end of a Doom game and wish I’d been more emotionally invested in the personal journey of my character The Doom Murderer
neutral · AI labelView post →What if they took your favorite game and just turned it into Doom? It would probably be an improvement Final Fantasy? Better if it was Doom Persona? Better if it was Doom Bloodborne? Better if it was Doom Food for thought
positive · AI labelView post →What an incredible honor, and DOOM is the only video game on the list! Congrats to DOOM devs, players, modders, and the entire games community. This one is for all of us. Thanks @gene.meme and @washingtonpost.com !
neutral · AI labelView post →I don’t see the problem with RDJ playing Doom. It’s a great game.
neutral · AI labelView post →A weird and questionable story about the 1990's sci fi shooter game "Doom" was part of President Trump's supposedly blockbuster evidence of election meddling and hacking talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-doo...
neutral · AI labelView post →I just started watching a youtube video that opened with (paraphrasing) 'I didn't like the latest Doom because it wasn't the same as the childhood game that I grew up with as a preteen, Doom 2016' Time is a flat circle, Doom is schroedinger's constant, and I am a pile of ancient, decrepit dust.
neutral · AI labelView post →Kinda funny that Doom Surf is the most integral and still somehow the least useful ability in the game
neutral · AI labelView post →Doctor Doom i owe you an apology. i wasn’t really familiar with your game
neutral · AI labelView post →Thumby and Thumby Color: impossibly tiny Game Boys that are actually playable! Just one inch tall. And yes, they can run Doom.
neutral · AI labelView post →game idea: Factory of Doom a factorio/satisfactory style construction game where you start with redstone-esque logic, go up to constructing gates, then make gates into adders and memory and logic, and you beat the game when you combine all this to make a computer that runs Doom
neutral · AI labelView post →Was dicking about with this years ago, like what would a DOOM game look like if it was made between DOOM 2 and DOOM 3.
neutral · AI labelView post →LEAKED DOOM 2099 SKIN IN-GAME 🔥
neutral · AI labelView post →Sonic Robo Blast 2 is a fangame built on top of the Doom Legacy engine. Doom 4 (2016) states that every Doom mod ever is canon, which would place Sonic Robo Blast 2 on the Doom timeline exclusively with absolutely no context with no Sonic the Hedgehog game connected to it.
neutral · AI labelView post →THEY MADE A DOOM RPG STYLE MOBILE GAME OUT OF DUSK
neutral · AI labelView post →'DOOM' is officially 32 years old DOOM revolutionized 3D gaming and I think it's one of the most important games of all-time. I'll never forget playing it on my neighbor's Packard Bell PC and being mesmerized by it I've been Knee Deep in the Dead ever since! 🔥💀🔥 Is DOOM a special game to YOU?
positive · AI labelView post →Ever wonder why some bugs stay in the game? 🤔 #gaming #johnromero #DOOM #quake #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →I finally reached the end of my rope with the whole videogame choice paralysis thing and deleted every game from my PC except what I'm actively playing. Even Doom and Quake. I feel a little woozy.
neutral · AI labelView post →damn this new DOOM game looks amazing
positive · AI labelView post →DOOM... I mean MOOD Slayer! Illustration for Do You Know Gaming card game from @lostincult.co.uk.
neutral · AI labelView post →Brought back my OTP of 2020 for the new Doom Dark Ages game. Isabelle is a fan of the cape #doom #doomthedarkages #animalcrossing #art #fanart
neutral · AI labelView post →🚨 NEW VIDEO 🚨 DOOM GUY GOES TO THERAPY: THE GAME LINK ► youtu.be/zlEk5DZdX4I
neutral · AI labelView post →One thing that you have to commend the Doom series for is that every game feels unique from each other. Especially the new trilogy. Seems like there's a Doom game for damn near everyone. Well... except COD players. You try hiding behind cover, you're gonna die. lol #doom
positive · 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 →bringing back Doom Incarnate <3 #hadesgame #hades2
neutral · AI labelView post →It's hard to believe this game is 31 years old today. Happy Birthday DOOM. Absolutely legendary.
positive · AI labelView post →The original DOOM game was 2.39MB, web devs need to get it together.
neutral · AI labelView post →Some TikTok kid posted a ranking of the Doom games and something about the phrase “best pre-Bethesda Doom game” absolutely broke me
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 32nd Birthday Doom! On December 10, 1993, id Software released the legendary first-person shooter game Doom.
neutral · AI labelView post →My side game project is a #megaman legends fan game. It's a #doom mod Made for #uzdoom and built in ultimate doom builder.
neutral · AI labelView post →My Dreamcast game's in-game PC runs DOOM now.
neutral · AI labelView post →**Happy Birthday To The Masterpiece of the Manliest Peak Power Fantasy Action Game that revived my childhood from 33 years of gaming.....DOOM 2016** 10 years later and DOOM 2016 still feels like getting powerbombed through the floor of a burning steel cage by pure adrenaline. This game did not walk so modern shooters could run. This game kicked the front door off its hinges, chugged six gallons of gasoline, punched a demon in the mouth, and reminded the entire FPS genre what “FUN” actually…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Haha oh dude these sprites came out really good in game. #Doom #DoomModding #PixelArt
positive · AI labelView post →Tiny Logic - a "game" where you assemble and simulate a functional Risc 32-bit computer and code the real logic to run Doom. cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/47154614 > Wow, this is so awesome! You learn real skills, starting at the transistor level. Add the coding and run real applications: chess, doom, minecraft clones, java, etc. [GIthub repos](https://github.com/PlangoDev) > > TINY-32 is a full 32-bit RISC-V computer made of 93,338 transistors. It passes the official…
neutral · AI labelView post →Played through the Derelikt demo - it's a game that is both amazingly committed to the PSX bit and also wears its influences on its sleeve (and that's not necessarily a bad thing). Lots of Doom 3, PSX Alien Resurrection, Half-Life, and Resident Evil here, and that's just the games its drawing from.
positive · AI labelView post →I think it's very funny when people try to bring up Bill Clinton when doing "parties are the same" stuff, a guy who's presidency was so far in the past that Nirvana was still releasing albums, Doom was a brand new game, and the most recent Star Trek movie still had the original cast
neutral · AI labelView post →godless% DOOM really is the speedrunning game that keeps on giving
positive · AI labelView post →DOOM: The dark ages is a very silly game but unlike the last one optimized for old people like me, a boomer shooter in more than one sense
neutral · AI labelView post →DOOM Eternal (made in-game for NVIDIA) #VirtualPhotography #DOOM
neutral · AI labelView post →the Doom (2018) game soundtrack is great working music imo
positive · AI labelView post →Most slept on game, better than eternal and The Dark Ages for me
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Doom's John Romero confirms his new FPS is saved after Xbox abandoned it, new publisher deal helps studio re-hire 10 laid off staff.
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 →No dialogue. No feelings. Just a shotgun and a very clear understanding that demons made a mistake. DOOM doesn’t ask who you are or why you’re here. It just hands you a weapon and says, “Move forward.” And somehow, that’s therapeutic. There’s no cover. No hiding. Standing still is basically a death wish signed in blood. The music kicks in and your brain stops forming complete thoughts. You stop planning. You start reacting. Rip. Tear. Repeat. Every arena feels like controlled violence. Not…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →atp i'm pretty sure that vibecoded decomps and ports are solely meant to impress video game esoterica and modernvintagegamer and Nobody Else because DOOM IS ALREADY OPEN SOURCE AND ON PC
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