Doom: Dark Ages hit 3 million players immediately, most of them on the game pass

Bethesda announced that Doom: Dark Ages has become the “largest release” of the developer ID software in the company's 34-year history, dating back to 1991.

The game reached 3 million players, seven times faster than Doom Eternal. Bethesda doesn't share any sales figures, but we don't know how much it's spent on development, marketing, and other expenses. It is known that developers closely protect these details, which makes the overall success of opening a given game challenging.

Another key to consider here is doom: The Dark Ages is launched Game Passwhile previous games in the trilogy, Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal (2020) did not. According to Ampere analysisof the 3 million players in Doom: Dark Ages, 2 million come from the Game Pass.

The Dark Age is Currently not among the top 100 most popular games on Steam. On May 17, it reached its all-time highest level of peak concurrent users on 31,470 Steam, According to SteamDB.

Doom is eternal and reaches its peak There are over 104,000 peak concurrent users on Steamand the misfortune in 2016 reached On Steam, there are more than 44,000 peak concurrent users. Doom: Dark Ages lags behind both games on Steam for users who use it at the same time, but that isn't necessarily a good indicator to measure the results of a single player game as well on the game pass.

Gamespot's Doom: Dark Ages Review Score is 8/10. “Sometimes, clever, measurement changes can surprise the new direction of the series and produce some of the best moments,” critic Alessandro Barbosa wrote.