DooM in the Dark Reviews

I’m perhaps the only person in existence to have completed this game start to finish, and I didn’t expect such a mess of a game when I first bought it. First off, the spaceman zombies will Jitter like crazy and i can’t take them seriously, not to mention they’re slow as hell. Second, if you shoot your primary while aiming down sights, the smoke particles from the muzzle are so intense, they actually block your line of sight and you can’t see what you’re aiming at. Third, 90% of the weapons you can buy in this game are the exact same guns, just with different skins and scopes on them. Only exception to this are a few Silenced pistols you can buy, but if I remember correctly, they behave the same way the desert eagle and its Reskins do. You can also buy “shotguns” but get this, the shotguns in this game use the same model as the AR’s, just with a different sight, and behave like shotguns internally. Like bruh… Other things include there being no save feature in this game at all. So if you die while playing through the first space station, you have to start all the way back at the beginning of said space station which is why my hour count in this game is multiple times the amount it takes to complete both stations. Another thing is when you kill any enemy, their ragdolls don’t stay still and certain parts constantly move in weird ways on their own. Lastly, when you pick up medkits, it makes a soda can opening sound effect… Don’t buy this, please. Edit: Oh yeah I forgot to mention that when I played this game, none of the achievements worked which is why I haven’t scored any despite completing the game.

this is the worst doom 3 ripoff i've ever played, all you do in this generic asset flip, is walk around shooting enemies while struggling to figure out where to go. also, the game is seriously laggy, and sometimes, the enemies health will change throughout the game, like the first enemy you come across is a zombie astronaut, when you first encounter them, they die in one shot, but then when you encounter them again, the take 4 magazines to kill. This is the worst game i've ever played, this game just lacks any fun or enjoyment.

love the big explosions and the physics of the flying bodies

This is not DOOM. It's just a dull, boring game with the name DOOM. There's no map and you run out of bullets all the time and you can't punch. So you run around trying to avoid creatures, that are not DOOM creatures, trying to find key cards on the ground. You must find the room with all the guns that you must purchase. To get money you shoot the creatures. Sometimes a creature may drop a $ which you pick up. Of course you run out of money and you just run around. The worse part is you can't SAVE the game. YOU only have one life. When you die you start at the beginning AGAIN. And believe me when I say you will not be able to find the keys again, remember no map. If you buy this game thinking it's DOOM don't you will be disappointed.

Don't let the shiny screenshots fool you like they fooled me - I normally quite enjoy even low budget, generic FPSes but this game simply has no enjoyable gameplay whatsoever. It's a shooting gallery with repetitive corridors where the only problem you can face is running out of ammo.

I have a pretty high tolerance for indie jank. I've played through and found enjoyment in games like the Ghostship series, Putrefaction, Solarix/Reframed, Chasing Dead, etc. However, Doom in the Dark is barely a game. It's basically a bunch of zombie and alien assets with simplistic A.I. (just move in a straight line towards you) dropped into a grid-like maze map, with no real flow or sense of progress. There are also only a couple of levels, too, and no real win condition. The gunplay is very poor, it really feels like The Slaughtering Grounds level of quality. The receptionist is cute, though (in a low budget LovesLab kind of way), so that is one (and only one) thing this game does better than 99% of AAA games being released in these modern times.

Nice graphics but horribly unpolished and pointless, you'll lose interest in five minutes. Just a first person shooter cobbled together quickly it seems, pits you against zombie cosmonauts with no story or point at all. Weapons sound like peashooters. Controls so annoying it's funny, you can't even strafe and there's no key binding that I could find. Even if it's going for a dollar when you're reading this, don't waste that dollar. Donate it to a good cause. This isn't a good cause.