How long is Doom The Dark Ages?

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Doom The Dark Ages has a lot of levels but you can get through the whole thing in well under 20 hours

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How long is Doom The Dark Ages? The exact length of the game will depend on your demon-slaying prowess and exploration, amongst other things. It’s a similar length to Doom Eternal, perhaps a little shorter, so it isn’t an especially long game overall.

Doom The Dark Ages consists of 22 chapters, with some being long trudges through large open areas featuring lots of collectibles and combat encounters, while others are much shorter ripping-and-tearing romps. To help you gauge how long Doom The Dark Ages is and how long it’ll take you to beat, I’ve detailed some completion time estimations based on the GamesRadar+ team’s own times.

Doom The Dark Ages length and time to beat explained

Doom The Dark Ages Doom Slayer Thira talking to Kreed Maykr with special device

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Here’s how long we reckon it’ll take you to beat Doom The Dark Ages based on our time playing:

  • Fast (critical path only): 12-14 hours
  • Standard (Some time spent exploring): 14-18 hours
  • Slow (thorough exploration for 100%): 18+ hours

As mentioned, the time is takes you to complete Doom The Dark Ages is going to depend on how skilled you are at slaying demons, which will also be affected by your chosen difficulty, and the amount of time spent looking at the Automap and gathering toys, codex pages, gold, and more – as our Doom The Dark Ages tips say, it’s highly recommended that you search for secrets!

Despite the high number of Doom The Dark Ages chapters, you can get through the game quite quickly, particularly if you’re playing on Aspiring Slayer difficulty and rarely stop to look for secrets. You won’t miss out on the best Doom The Dark Ages weapon by playing like this as there are no secret weapons, but you will miss out on upgrades as you likely won’t have much gold to spend at Sentinel Shrines.

Doom The Dark Ages fire pipe door secret area with gold bars and hell knight breaking through a wall

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If you’re spending a bit of time exploring but aren’t necessarily constantly checking your Automap for secrets, then you’ll be able to complete the game in around 15 hours, give or take a few depending on how thorough your exploration is.

For those looking to find all collectibles, gather every resource, and complete all mission challenges, such as finding all Doom The Dark Ages secret landing spots, you’re going to spend close to 20 hours playing through the campaign. Your time will likely be a little over or under depending how many chapters you need to replay from the start to mop up missing items – my final 100% completion time was around 24 hours.

And since there aren’t any secret activities or multiplayer modes, once you’ve 100%’d the campaign, you’ve wrapped up the whole game!

Still not sure if this Doom is for you? Make sure you read our Doom The Dark Ages review to find out our thoughts. Or if you’re confused about when exactly this takes place in Doom canon, we’ve got a Doom The Dark Ages lore explainer here.

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Will Sawyer
Will Sawyer
Guides Editor, GamesRadar+

Will Sawyer is a Guides Editor at GamesRadar+ with over five years of experience in writing online guides, news, and features, and has a BA (Hons) in Journalism. Starting as a freelancer, Will contributed to startmenu and Game Rant before joining the GamesRadar+ team in August 2021. Since then, he has written hundreds of guides about a huge range of games, with shooters and action games being his areas of expertise. Outside of writing about games, Will hops between multiplayer shooters with friends, such as Darktide and Helldivers 2, and delves into whatever has been on his backlog for far too long. He also tries to get through his never-ending Warhammer pile of shame of grey Tyranids, Aeldari, and Chaos Space Marines.

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