DOOM: The Dark Ages
Image: id Software, Bethesda

Xbox and Bethesda developer id Software this week shared a proper reveal of DOOM: The Dark Ages and more details about it are beginning to emerge.

One thing, in particular, highlighted in the first round of previews - is the fact this game is a "strictly campaign" affair. In other words - don't expect multiplayer to feature. Here's exactly what Marty Stratton had to say about this (via Eurogamer):

"We made that decision early so we could really just go all in on the campaign. It's our largest, most expansive, most epic campaign ever, and we're just really happy with the decision."

"It's been awesome to have the team focused just on polishing and finishing the campaign."

This decision has also allowed the team to do more in the campaign, like "put the dragon and the Atlan [mech] in". These are apparently ideas that have been considered across "multiple games now" but it was all too much on top of the "multiplayer component". So now the team can finally "level up" the campaign experience for players.

You can find out more about this new DOOM entry, due out for Xbox and Game Pass on May 15, 2025, in our existing coverage here on Pure Xbox.

How do you feel about this? Would you like to see more games focus exclusively on solo campaigns like this? Let us know in the comments.