Doom
Doom, the brutally fun and challenging modern-day shooter, can now be taken anywhere with Nintendo Switch! Relentless demons, impossibly destructive guns, and fast, fluid movement provide the foundation for…
Doom is a shooter developed by id Software, released 10 November 2017 on Nintendo Switch.
What Doom is
Doom is a shooter game developed by id Software and released in 2017. It was published by Bethesda Softworks. It is available on Nintendo Switch only. It runs on id Tech 6.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Doom, the brutally fun and challenging modern-day shooter, can now be taken anywhere with Nintendo Switch! Relentless demons, impossibly destructive guns, and fast, fluid movement provide the foundation for intense, first-person combat – whether you’re obliterating demon hordes through the depths of Hell in the single-player campaign, or competing against your friends in numerous multiplayer modes. Doom for Nintendo Switch also includes all the game's multiplayer DLC and Arcade Mode.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Doom series
Doom is the 39th of 73 entries we hold in the Doom series. It arrived 7 months after Bethesda Pinball. The next entry was Doom VFR in 2017. Its critic score of 77 is 2 points below the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Doom: The Dark Ages - Revelations at 91.
How it was received
Doom holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 61% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 78, across 65 votes.
What it launched against
Doom launched on 10 November 2017, within three weeks of Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Doom yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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