Doom
In the future, humans have left Earth and settled throughout the galaxy. On Mars, the Union Aerospace Corporation has established a radioactive waste facility and allowed the military to conduct teleportation…
Doom is a shooter developed by id Software, released 10 December 1993 on DOS, Linux, PC-9800 Series and Windows Mobile. It currently starts at $3.99 at GOG. This page lists 28 cheat codes for it.
What Doom is
Doom is a shooter game developed by id Software and released in 1993. It is available on DOS, Linux, PC-9800 Series and Windows Mobile. It runs on id Tech 1.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player takes the role of a marine (unnamed to further represent the person playing), "one of Earth's toughest, hardened in combat and trained for action", who has been incarcerated on Mars after assaulting a senior officer when ordered to fire upon civilians. There, he works alongside the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC), a multi-planetary conglomerate and military contractor performing secret experiments on interdimensional travel. Recently, the teleportation has shown signs of anomalies and instability, but the research continues nonetheless. Suddenly, something goes wrong and creatures from hell swarm out of the teleportation gates on Deimos and Phobos. A defensive response from…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 54 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Doom series
Doom is the first of 73 entries we hold in the Doom series. The next entry was Doom II: Hell on Earth in 1994. Its critic score of 80 is almost exactly 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 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1993 averaged 64, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 83, across 1,003 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 7 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 14.8 hrs, roughly 2.1 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $3.99, that works out to about $0.57 per hour of the main story, or $0.27 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-2400/AMD FX-8320 or better, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GTX 670 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or better. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 55GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.99 at GOG, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Doom launched on 10 December 1993, within three weeks of Mega Man X, SimCity 2000, NBA Jam and Romancing SaGa 2. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Mega Man X, SimCity 2000, NBA Jam, Romancing SaGa 2.
Cheats and codes
We have tested and published 28 cheat entries for Doom — 28 cheat codes. Each one lists the platform it applies to, the exact input, and whether it disables achievements.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Every code labelled
Doom cheat codes
All Chainsaw and Carry (Behold C)
Gives the chainsaw and lets you carry items between levels in some versions (listed less consistently)
Type the code during gameplay (original DOS version)
No-Clipping Mode
Walk through walls (DOOM II/Final Doom variant; in the original Doom (1993) the equivalent is IDSPISPOPD)
Type the code during gameplay (original DOS version)
Level Warp
Warps to episode/map xx (e.g. IDCLEV21 goes to Episode 2, Map 1; in Doom II, IDCLEVxx uses map 01-32)
Type the code during gameplay (original DOS version)
Show Coordinates and FPS
Overlays coordinate, angle and FPS information in the original DOS version
Type the code during gameplay (original DOS version)
Dlc
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