DOOM
Worth it · Shooter · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $14.85.
- Length
- 11.6h
- Value
- $1.72/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 670 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or better, 55 GB of storage. Windows only.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
What drives the score
How to read this
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
March 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 85 in the 11 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 7 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks. It becomes a BANGER at $14.85, a level the record has reached 59 times.
On value it sits in the top 7 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Quake ($9.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats DOOM Eternal ($29.99, scores 64).
The press gave it 85; the people who bought it give it 96 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
12 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2025 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 606 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 78 percent of the 8,755 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 11.6 hours; clearing it takes 27, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
Still 1.6K concurrent players, 10 years in.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 11.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
83% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1,590 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I LOVE this game. The horror esthetic is absolutely perfect. Exploring the facility and hearing a swarm of screaming possessed for the first time is genuinely freaky. The demons are all, mostly, faithful to their original versions from the boomer shooter days. There's also a story, which I admit most people won't care about, but I found it welcome. It perfectly sets up the next games while, at the same time...
Doom is a fun and relaxing game about politely and kindly escorting demons back to their realm by using magical handheld tools. Each level has a wonderful, detailed map with fun decorations such as strawberry jam spread out everywhere, a research facility studying a magical realm full of fun animals, and mounds of strawberry shortcake which summon those fun animals. Don't get too close to these animals, though. They...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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DOOM scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/379720/doomThe 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 Sep 11, price as of Sep 24.
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