DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations Reviews
Revelations is an excellent expansion that shakes things up and gives Doom: The Dark Ages players new mechanics to experiment with when it comes to slaughtering demons. Combined with the main campaign, this DLC makes for a more substantial and varied experience, bringing back some of the mobility from Doom Eternal that had been somewhat missing.
Review in Italian | Read full review
DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations is, without a doubt, a fantastic addition to one of the best shooters of recent years. The story moves forward, but the gameplay has also evolved significantly, swapping the stationary shield for a much more mobile spear. It's a blast for fans of both the original game and the previous installment, Eternal.
Review in Czech | Read full review
Fulfilling its role as a DLC by expanding upon the qualities of the base game, DOOM: The Dark Ages - Revelations is practically a must-have. The added story complements the campaign very well, as does the debut of the Spear enhances the gameplay. Its combat and movement capabilities allow you to tackle the missions and other challenges, all of which are radical and intense. Now we await the next iteration of this classic FPS franchise that has reinvented itself for modern times since 2016.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
DOOM: The Dark Ages - Revelations is one of the most unexpected gaming treks I've ever gone on. A more personal and memorable storyline, coupled with greater exploration and puzzle-solving, isn't quite what came to mind for me when I thought of this series, but I wholeheartedly embraced and adored it.
Doom: The Dark Ages – Revelations is a textbook example of how to expand an already phenomenal action game in all the right ways.
DOOM: The Dark Ages – Revelations is an expansion that ultimately leaves a lingering sense of disappointment. This is by no means a bad DLC: its gunplay remains among the strongest in the genre, its technical execution continues to set an exceptionally high standard, and several narrative sequences provide worthwhile additions to the Slayer’s story and the broader mythology of the series. Yet, for every strength, Revelations is accompanied by choices that prevent it from reaching the same heights as the main game. The decision to introduce greater complexity into the combat system once again, the return of mechanics that have historically struggled to complement DOOM’s strengths and a narrative that moves too quickly through events of considerable importance ultimately hold the expansion back. The Dark Ages succeeded in streamlining the modern DOOM formula without sacrificing its depth, creating a combat system that felt immediate, readable and remarkably satisfying. Revelations, by contrast, occasionally feels as though it is retracing ground that the series had already learned to leave behind. That is ultimately what makes the expansion so frustrating. There is a genuinely compelling story buried within Revelations, and its revelations could have formed the foundation for a far more substantial chapter in the Slayer’s journey. Instead, several important developments are compressed, relegated to the background or resolved with a degree of haste that undermines their dramatic weight. Rather than functioning as a fully self-contained expansion capable of building upon the exceptional foundations established by The Dark Ages, Revelations feels more like a bridge to what comes next. From a broader narrative perspective, that purpose is understandable: the expansion introduces important developments, reshapes elements of the Slayer’s past and leaves the door open for the next stage of the saga. As a standalone experience, however, that same approach becomes its greatest limitation.
All things considered, Doom The Dark Ages Revelations gives up the wider maps, the dragon and the mech, and I don't mean that as a complaint at all, because I had enjoyed those detours in the right doses, yet it's clear that what's left here is just the Slayer with no frills, which happens to be exactly what everyone who came away from The Dark Ages disappointed had been asking for at the top of their lungs. To those people I'd say go and get it, because they'll find precisely what they were looking for, even if it remains curious that the lesson was only understood at the expansion stage. On the ending I can't push any further, since there's a moment that anyone who played Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal will feel land like a punch to the gut, and there's a destination reached that clearly opens the road to the next chapter. I hope that road really does get travelled, because in the meantime the studio has lost key figures and Hugo Martin's reassurances about the team's current size aren't enough to erase the names that walked out the door. What's left, thankfully, is an expansion made with heart, made with soul, and made above all with the Slayer's rage.
Review in Italian | Read full review
DOOM: The Dark Ages – Revelations is an essential expansion that successfully marries the best parts of the modern DOOM era into one relentless package, proving once again that nobody does first-person shooters quite like id Software. The Chain Spear is a wonderfully gruesome tool, the level design and combat are sublime, the nods to prior entries in the series are a treat, and it looks glorious on the PlayStation 5 Pro… what more could you want?
Revelations doesn’t just passively extend the life of The Dark Ages: it corrects its most-discussed “flaw” by restoring the Slayer’s speed, agility, and freedom of movement—and it does so through a Chain Lance that has everything it takes to establish itself as one of the best ideas in the entire modern trilogy. The wealth of tools requires patience and a significant learning curve, and the new pace of gameplay raises the bar considerably, but those who accept the challenge will find one of the most deep and rewarding combat systems in the genre. This expansion impresses as much for its substance as for the sheer volume of content it offers, and it reminds us once again that when id Software decides to revisit its formula, it rarely misses the mark.
Review in Italian | Read full review
DOOM: The Dark Ages – Revelations feels more like a true evolution than a simple expansion, introducing the excellent Chain Spear while delivering an even faster, more dynamic, and satisfying combat experience.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Doom: The Dark Ages | Revelations is a superb addition to an already excellent game, expanding on the narrative, lore, and mechanics in a way that’s almost worthy of Sequeldom.
DOOM: The Dark Ages – Revelations is a textbook example of how an expansion pack can add value without simply copying the formula of the base game. Thanks to the excellent Chain Spear, strong new levels and a campaign that offers a surprising amount of content, this is a DLC that fans absolutely must not miss. Although some puzzle sections slow the pace down a little at times, the positives more than make up for the negatives. Revelations delivers exactly what you’d expect from DOOM: spectacular action, brutal combat and an absurd amount of demonic carnage, complemented by enough new ideas to keep you glued to the screen for hours on end.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
The Revelations expansion managed to surpass all expectations, hopes, and dreams, creating the most complete and best experience in the DOOM series of all time. The add-on succeeded in providing a different, addictive, and fun gameplay system that relies on the spear and shield and switching between them, which surpassed the original game. It provided the best level and encounter design with distinctive ideas and a real challenge, and undoubtedly the best bosses in the series as a whole with a gigantic and highly diverse set of enemies, and a breathtaking epic soundtrack, alongside an excellent and polished progression system that benefits from meticulous exploration and smart puzzles with different ideas. This journey is only completed with the perfect and integrated End Game content that puts all your skills to the test.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
Doom: The Dark Ages - Revelations introduces new weapons, levels, and even an endgame phase where franchise fans can enjoy battling the forces of Hell in perpetuity.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
30 years of iD Software's blood, sweat, and tears have been poured into this one DLC. With more content, music, story, and Slaying than any other content, DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations showcases some of the best content we have seen in the series since DOOM(2016).
If id wanted to go out with a bang, then DOOM: The Dark Ages - Revelations is the most explosive finale it could have pulled off.
Review in Greek | Read full review
A brutal, ambitious, and consistently thrilling return to demon slaying. Doom: The Dark Ages Revelations delivers a sharp and satisfying expansion that builds confidently on the base game with deeper combat, stunning presentation, rewarding exploration, and a challenging end game that keeps the action exciting right to the finish. A few elements like the story, complex controls, ammo scarcity, and certain enemy types fall short of the high bar set elsewhere, but they never outweigh how fun, polished, and engaging the experience is overall.
DOOM The Dark Ages - Revelations brings back the brutality, speed, and chaos that all DOOM players love, while at the same time showing us a different side of the character that loves ripping and tearing the most.
"Revelations" is one of the best DLCs for single-player shooters available.
Review in German | Read full review
DOOM: The Dark Ages - Revelations doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel, and doesn’t need to. Instead, it confidently builds on what worked, adding better exploration, meaningful progression, challenging PvE encounters, and a story that gives the Slayer’s journey more weight than you might expect. The result is a substantial expansion that feels substantial from beginning to end.