Key facts
- Developer
- id Software
- Publisher
- Bethesda Softworks
- Directors
- Marty Stratton Hugo Martin
- Programmer
- Billy Ethan Khan
- Writer
- Adam Gascoine
- Composer
- Mick Gordon
- Series
- Doom
- Engine
- id Tech 6
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4 Windows Xbox One Nintendo Switch Stadia
- Release
- PS4 , Windows , Xbox One May 13, 2016 Nintendo Switch November 10, 2017 Stadia August 19, 2020
- Genre
- First-person shooter
- Modes
- Single-player , multiplayer
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- bethesda.net/en/game/doom_2016
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- software version identifier
- 6.66
- publication date
- 2017-11-10
- review score
- 83/100
- social media followers
- 7770
- title
- Doom
- Commons category
- Doom 2016
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Doom is a 2016 first-person shooter game developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game is the first major installment in the Doom series since 2004's Doom 3 and is a reboot of the franchise. It was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One in May 2016. A port for Nintendo Switch was co-developed with Panic Button and released in November 2017, and a version for Stadia was released in August 2020. Players take the role of a space marine, known colloquially as the Doom Slayer, as he battles demonic forces within an energy-mining facility on Mars and in Hell.
Doom was announced as Doom 4 in 2008, and that version underwent an extensive development cycle with different builds and designs before the game was restarted in 2011 and re-revealed as simply Doom in 2014. It was tested by customers who pre-ordered the 2014 MachineGames game Wolfenstein: The New Order and the general public. Mick Gordon composed the music, with contributions by Richard Devine. The game also has an online multiplayer component and a level editor known as "SnapMap", co-developed with Certain Affinity and Escalation Studios respectively.