DOOM (2016)

When setting the game up on Steam Deck via Heroic Games Launcher, the game will not boot to main menu. I have tried using different instances of Wine and Proton. The game does work perfectly on Windows.

Doom 2016 is a great game and I can't believe it's almost ten years old, I already own this on Steam but saw it was released here recently, and I had to buy it again. It's still worth buying and playing this game after all these years. Doom slayer doesn't mess around and Doom 2016's fact-paced gameplay keeps you on your toes and especially on the higher difficulties, ripping and tearing the demons will always be satisfying. Some downsides about the GOG release being that there's no multiplayer and no snapshot mode, I don't understand why these could be included in this release, many fps games from the late 90s and early 2000s were DRM-free and still had access to playing online multiplayer. Another downside is this game doesn't have overlay support, meaning that you won't be able to see achievements pop up during gameplay, but GOG can add that in a later update (hopefully). I would only recommend buying Doom 2016 on GOG if you care about having it be DRM-free and especially when it's on sale.

Character moves slowly, ammo capacity is low.

I can't get it to work well with a mouse. The Move Left and Move Right commands are not reassignable. Made it through the first level. Jury's still out.

The overall gameplay was fun (but repetitive) once you've found more weapons and upgrades, but for the first half of the game I was not enjoying the combat much. Also combat and exploration was dominated by animated interactions and glory kills which took control away from the player. Then all the platforming, challenges, upgrading and poor level layout just pulled the gameplay down. I didn't feel like I was playing a shooter any more, It felt more like an RPG, which I don't have a problem playing but when I play a shooter I want it to feel like a shooter. The story is a major fail for me. The doom slayer (the guy in this game) is not the doom marine (the guy from all other doom game before this). Also their story never pulled me in, just keep killing things and do what you are told and they'll give you some more of the story. It felt like you were there in the world while the creators poorly told a story happening around you, you were not driving the story forward in any way. The story also didn't make sense most of the time and I when I went back to try and figure it out it made even less sense. In the end, not having the doom guy being the last human survivor who puts his life and soul on the line to fight evil and stop the invasion, for me destroy the entire point of the story. It just felt like there was no sacrifice, tension or consequences in this so called 'DOOM'. So in the end Doom (2016) was a good looking game that had a few high moments in killing demons but was brought down by the endless jumping, upgrading, challenges, and failure at creating a good story to wrap around the Doom franchise.