Doom: The Dark Ages struggles with performance on the Steam Deck, with frequent frame rate drops below 30 FPS, especially in demanding areas or combat sequences.

If internet videos with titles like "Supersonic Golf Ball to the Forehead" have taught us anything, it's that a slow motion chthonic mace to the dome is a weighty chthonic mace to the dome. So goes the thinking being Doom: The Dark Ages liberal dolloping of slow motion effects all over its melee attacks and parries.

To put things into perspective, predecessor DOOM Eternal peaked at 106,891 players, so more than three times what id Software’s latest has achieved.