Doom: The Dark Ages is already shaping up to be an interesting case. When reviews dropped, it became one of the highest-rated games in franchise history, but as things stand, after a day, it has the lowest user review score on Steam of the reboot trilogy, although there is plenty of time to turn this around.
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Its Steam reviews aren't the only place where the game is falling behind its predecessor, either. Doom: The Dark Ages had a significantly quieter launch day on the platform than 2020's Doom Eternal.
Yesterday, according to SteamDB, Doom: The Dark Ages peaked at 30,812 players. On Doom Eternal's launch day in March 2020, the game peaked at 104,891 players. This means Doom: The Dark Ages only hit around 30 percent of the player count Eternal managed on Steam at launch. Even Doom (2016) bettered The Dark Ages' day one player count, peaking at 32,182 on launch, before climbing to 44,217 that weekend.
Day One Peak
All-Time Peak
Doom (2016)
32,182
44,217
Doom Eternal
104,891
104,891
Doom: The Dark Ages
30,812
TBC
It's worth noting that there are a couple of serious mitigating factors this...
