DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part One
Skip · Shooter · 2020
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 4.9h
- Value
- $2.04/hr
- Reviews
- 66% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 80 GB of storage. Windows only.
The Ancient Gods – Part One is the first campaign expansion for the critically acclaimed DOOM Eternal.
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Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $6.59. That was August 2023. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 41 in the 6 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is less well reviewed than 77 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. DOOM Eternal ($29.99, scores 64) and DOOM ($19.99, scores 79) both outscore it.
None of the 699 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to August 2026. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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DOOM Eternal: The Ancient Gods - Part One scores 15/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1098292/doom-eternal-the-ancient-gods-part-oneThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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