Grab the brilliant Doom 2016 for its lowest price ever

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Doom 2016 is less than two dollars. Id's superb reboot of its own 1993 FPS is currently available at a 90% discount thanks to Steam's spring sale. With a current RRP of £15.99/$19.99 that discount brings the price down to £1.59 in the UK, or as I have already stated numerous times, less than two dollars in the US.

This is a preposterously good deal. Doom 2016 is probably the best singleplayer shooter of the last decade, reviving id's genre-defining game as a muscular and propulsively aggressive shooter. Reversing the more scripted, Half-Life-ish leanings of Doom 3 (which Doom 4 would have continued had it not been cancelled), Doom 2016 is all about momentum and mechanics, centring around its ingenious glory-kill system where brutally executing enemies gives you the health you need to keep on killing.

It's worth noting that the sequel, Doom Eternal, is also on a 75% discount, bringing it down to £8.74/$9.99. Personally, I prefer Eternal's more complex combat, especially since having mastered it through the Ancient Gods expansions. I'm aware this is a minority opinion, however, so please don't rip out my eyeballs. In any case, the Doom deal is undoubtedly the better one, and you should start there before playing Eternal anyway.

Like its predecessors, Doom: The Dark Ages once again seeks to reinterpret the 1993 original, reframing the Doom Slayer as a heavier, more grounded fighter partial to shields and melee weapons. Indeed, director Hugo Martin recently said that it's theoretically possible to complete the game without using guns. You might not want to miss out on its firearms though, since all of them except the shotguns have been completely redesigned.

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Rick has been fascinated by PC gaming since he was seven years old, when he used to sneak into his dad's home office for covert sessions of Doom. He grew up on a diet of similarly unsuitable games, with favourites including Quake, Thief, Half-Life and Deus Ex. Between 2013 and 2022, Rick was games editor of Custom PC magazine and associated website bit-tech.net. But he's always kept one foot in freelance games journalism, writing for publications like Edge, Eurogamer, the Guardian and, naturally, PC Gamer. While he'll play anything that can be controlled with a keyboard and mouse, he has a particular passion for first-person shooters and immersive sims.

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