How to Play the Doom Games in Chronological Order

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There’s a bully statement to beryllium made for Doom’s inclusion among the astir influential crippled franchises of each time. It’s wide considered the progenitor of the first-person shooter genre that’s dominated the marketplace for decades, paving the mode for franchises similar Call of Duty and Halo portion retaining its relevance with fantabulous modern shooters.

As we adjacent the merchandise of the series’ adjacent chapter, we’ve compiled a chronological database of each Doom crippled successful order.

How Many Doom Games Are There?

There are six Doom games, excluding add-ons and enhanced versions of antecedently released games, though those are noted wrong each blurb wherever applicable. Doom: The Dark Ages volition beryllium the seventh mainline Doom game. This database excludes mobile games similar Doom RPG, Doom Resurrection, and Mighty Doom.

Which Doom Game Should You Play First?

There are 2 logical starting points for caller players: Doom (1993) oregon Doom (2016). Most players are amended disconnected starting with the 2016 mentation fixed its modern design. However, if you’re hellbent connected experiencing the afloat story, your starting constituent has to beryllium the 1993 original.

Every Doom Game successful Chronological Order

The blurbs beneath incorporate wide spoilers for the crippled of each game.

1. Doom (1993)

Following the merchandise of id Software’s archetypal 2 games — Commander Keen and Wolfenstein — the developer introduced Doom to the satellite successful precocious 1993. The shooter was released with 3 episodes: Knee-Deep successful the Dead, The Shores of Hell, and Inferno; the 4th episode, Thy Flesh Consumed, was released successful 1995 arsenic portion of The Ultimate Doom.

Doom begins the saga by introducing the series’ archetypal protagonist, an unnamed marine known arsenic Doomguy, and sending him connected a demon-slaying ngo up to Mars earlier descending to hell. It ends with Doomguy’s find of a demon penetration connected Earth, mounting up the pursuing year’s sequel.

2. Doom II: Hell connected Earth (1994)

A twelvemonth later, id Software released Doom II: Hell connected Earth, picking up with the demon penetration of Earth seen astatine the extremity of Doom. Doomguy helps the survivors flight into space, leaving him arsenic the past antheral connected Earth, earlier descending backmost into hellhole to adjacent the portal betwixt the 2 realms.

Two add-on episodes were aboriginal released for Doom II: No Rest for the Living successful 2010 and Legacy of Rust successful 2024. Final Doom was a separate, two-episode crippled created by a assemblage of mappers successful 1996, though its contented has since been consolidated into modern versions of Doom II.

All of the post-launch episodes mentioned supra are acceptable betwixt the events of Doom II and Doom 64.

3. Doom 64 (1997)

Doom 64, id Software’s 3rd introduction successful the franchise (and the 3rd chronologically), sends Doomguy backmost into abstraction to woody with an escaped demon and its reincarnated army. To decision the threat, our leader yet returns to hell, wherever helium chooses to unrecorded retired his years protecting humanity from the imaginable of aboriginal invasions.

The 2020 remaster of Doom 64 added The Lost Levels, which is acceptable aft Doom 64 and serves arsenic a span betwixt the archetypal games and the rebooted bid that began successful 2016.

4. Doom 3 (2004)

There’s nary definitive reply arsenic to wherever Doom 3 exists connected this timeline. Arguments person been made that it takes spot earlier Doom (1993), aft Doom 64, oregon successful an alternate timeline altogether. We’re placing it aft 64 fixed its aboriginal merchandise day and our champion knowing of the timeline, though its placement is yet inessential to knowing the ongoing narrative.

In Doom 3, players measurement into the boots of Doom Marine, an unnamed worker who is not Doomguy from the erstwhile games. The marine is tasked with investigating unusual incidents astatine a distant laboratory connected Mars. What follows is simply a demonic penetration of the Red Planet and the uncovering of a conspiracy to destruct humanity.

An add-on/sequel called Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil was released the pursuing year. It’s acceptable 2 years aft the events of Doom 3 and follows a antithetic unnamed marine’s effort to instrumentality an artifact to hell.

A remastered mentation called Doom 3: BFG Edition was released successful 2012 and included a caller enlargement called The Lost Mission, which takes spot wrong the events of Doom 3. This mentation is besides playable successful virtual world arsenic Doom 3: VR Edition.

5. Doom (2016)

The 2016 reboot of Doom introduced Doom Slayer and began a caller acceptable of stories wrong id Software’s Doom universe. The communicative begins with Doom Slayer being awakened from a sarcophagus to woody with a caller demonic menace connected a Martian probe facility. Doom Slayer, traveling backmost and distant betwixt hellhole and Mars, again thwarts the demons' attacks, earlier being betrayed and teleported to an chartless location.

A VR spinoff called Doom VFR was released successful 2017. It’s acceptable aft the events of Doom and follows a Union Aerospace Corporation worker named Dr. Peters.

6. Doom Eternal (2020)

The latest crippled successful the chronology is Doom Eternal. Set aft the events of Doom (2016), Eternal sees Doom Slayer instrumentality to extremity different demonic penetration of Earth by sidesplitting the 3 Hell Priests. The communicative includes a cardinal portion of bid lore, revealing the transportation betwixt the archetypal Doomguy and Doom Slayer.

Doom Eternal extended the timeline with 2 expansions: The Ancient Gods Part 1 and The Ancient Gods Part 2. The two-part communicative picks up aft the events of Eternal, with the demons gathering spot successful different dimensions and Doom Slayer enacting a caller program to destruct them. Part 1 culminates successful the summoning of the Dark Lord; Part 2 is Doom Slayer’s pursuit and confrontation of the Dark Lord, revealing further details astir the hero’s past.

Every Doom Game By Release Date

Doom (1993)
Doom II: Hell connected Earth (1994)
Doom 64 (1997)
Doom 3 (2004)
Doom (2016)
Doom Eternal (2020)
Doom: The Dark Ages (2025)

Upcoming Doom Games

The adjacent crippled volition beryllium Doom: The Dark Ages, owed retired May 15. Doom: The Dark Ages stars Doom Slayer, a caller and much almighty iteration of Doomguy that debuted successful Doom (2016). The Dark Ages is simply a prequel to Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal, according to Bethesda, successful which players “step into the blood-stained boots of the Doom Slayer, successful [a] never-before-seen acheronian and sinister medieval warfare against Hell.” You tin cheque retired much of IGN's sum up of the game's release: