Introduced throughout Microsoft’s Xbox Video games Showcase, Doom: The Darkish Ages is id Software program’s subsequent foray again into hell. Doom: The Darkish Ages is a medieval spin on the Doom franchise, taking the Doom Slayer again to the start. It’s coming to Xbox Sequence X (together with Xbox Sport Cross on day one) someday in 2025, and it’ll even be accessible on PlayStation 5 and Home windows PC.
The primary trailer for Doom: The Darkish Ages exhibits the frenetic, precision gameplay we’ve come to count on from the franchise — there’s lots of blasting and taking pictures and a chainsaw. Oh, and the Doom Slayer can trip a dragon?
Sunday’s announcement is the primary official information of Doom: The Darkish Ages, following an Insider Gaming report from Could. Bethesda Softworks and id Software program launched Doom Everlasting in 2020. Launching alongside Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Doom Everlasting was a serious hit. The sport offered three million digital copies in its launch month, in line with gross sales numbers from Superdata. That’s 3 times the variety of copies 2016’s Doom offered in its first month, per GamesIndustry.biz. id Software program launched two items of DLC for Doom Everlasting: The Historic Gods: Half One and The Historic Gods: Half Two.
In 2021, forward of The Historic Gods: Half Two, Doom Everlasting sport director Hugo Martin spoke to gamerjive about the way forward for the collection — maybe hinting on the medieval setting: “Might we inform a narrative about when [the Doom Slayer] first got here to that place with the Sentinels, virtually like a extra medieval setting, a fantasy setting?” Martin mentioned. “I believe as you play the DLC, too, you’ll see a lot of hints of what we might do shifting ahead. Perhaps even sooner or later. Once more, our hero is considerably timeless — I imply, actually, he’s immortal. So we might inform every kind of tales.”
Replace: We’ve edited this text to make clear that Doom: The Darkish Ages is coming to PlayStation 5 and Home windows PC in addition to Xbox Sequence X.
