Doom (Series) | Doom: The Dark Ages Developer Direct & Release Date

[ShiraNoMai]

Doom: The Dark Ages | Xbox Developer Direct Showcase

As part of Xbox's Developer_Direct 2025 digital presentation, the team at id Software give us a behind the scenes look into our first gameplay deep dive for DOOM: The Dark Ages! 

DOOM: The Dark Ages is officially labelled a prequel to both DOOM (2016) and subsequently DOOM Eternal, and it will "tell an epic cinematic story of the DOOM Slayer’s rage in this never-before-seen dark and sinister medieval war against Hell!"

Many of the spoilers outlined in the previous post have been showcased and largely finalized in this preview of the game.



The official release date for the game is confirmed to be May 15, 2025!

[Moonface]

I didn't get to watch it live due to being in class, but dang that game looks so good! Funnily one of the things I was most happy to see is that the Slayer takes keycards off bodies again like it was in Doom 2016; I hated the way keycards were just giant floating collectibles in the levels in Eternal. Now if the story can also be an improvement over what Eternal did then my biggest gripes with that game will be resolved in this one!