Fun and different take on Doom
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 positive reviews
“this is one of the greatest FPS games ever made and is the "last true" doom game.”
Steam review · 29.7 h played ↗
DOOM 3
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 86%Very Positive · 86%id Software2012FPS · Horror · Action
$9.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
A slow, dark sci-fi horror shooter with strong atmosphere and plenty of content, including expansions and Doom 1 and 2. Skip it if you want fast Doom action or if launch bugs worry you.
Great for
Fans of slow, atmospheric sci-fi horror shooters who want lots of content cheaply
Main risk
Expecting fast Doom action, then hitting repetitive corridors, cheap ambushes, or launch failures
What players love
Oppressive horror atmosphere
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“The atmosphere is unparallelled. The lighting is as good as newer games. The sound design is über.”
Steam review · 52.3 h played ↗
Great value package with expansions
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“You get base Doom 3, 2 expansions and both classic Doom games for 10 bucks, Amazing value.”
Steam review · 11.1 h played ↗
Jump scares and tense ambushes
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“its horror aspect and environmental creepiness, enemies jumping outofwhere, the jumpscares.. freaking hell”
Steam review · 6.6 h played ↗
Looks and runs well on modern hardware
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews
“It doesn't matter what GPU you have, it will play smoothly.”
Steam review · 5.4 h played ↗
Armor-mounted flashlight makes combat smoother
Mentioned in ~1 in 30 positive reviews
“flashlight without swapping weapons makes the game faster, and more fun to plow through! :D”
Steam review · 3.8 h played ↗
What players complain about
BFG edition is worse than the original
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“giving you an armor-mounted flashlight, ruining a core mechanic of the game and also ruining many areas designed to be played with other light sources.”
Steam review · 46.1 h played ↗
Repetitive corridors and boring pacing
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“Absoultely most time of the gameplay - is that you running in the same looking corridors of this damn Mars base, and shooting Imps throwing fireballs at you.”
Steam review · 12.7 h played ↗
Game won't launch or crashes on modern PCs
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“Myself and countless others cannot launch the game on modern systems and there is no solution offered by the devs.”
Steam review · 1.1 h played ↗
Weak guns, especially the shotgun
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“It has easily the worst shotgun I've ever seen in a game, pretty much incapable of 1-shotting imps.”
Steam review · 5 h played ↗
Not really Doom
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“this game does not feel like Doom at all”
Steam review · 2.1 h played ↗
Cheap ambush spawns and jump scares
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“I keep getting impbushed from behind walls that shouldn't even open to begin with and are only there to "surprise" you.”
Steam review · 8.6 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable11 GB
Minimum
OSWindows vista/ Windows 7
Processor2.0 GHz dual core
Memory3 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT / ATI Radeon HD 5750, 512 MB video RAM
Storage11 GB
Recommended
OSWindows Vista-64/ Windows 7-64
Processor2.4 GHz dual core
Memory3 GB system RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 / ATI Radeon HD 5850, 768 MB video RAM
Storage11 GB
OSWindows vista/ Windows 7
Processor2.0 GHz dual core
Memory3 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT / ATI Radeon HD 5750, 512 MB video RAM
Storage11 GB
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