{"id":1035,"date":"2025-07-14T15:45:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:12:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:12:26","slug":"can-i-play-doom-the-dark-ages-on-steam-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/can-i-play-doom-the-dark-ages-on-steam-deck\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I play Doom: The Dark Ages on Steam Deck?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Can I play<\/strong> <strong>Doom: The Dark Ages<\/strong> <strong>on Steam Deck<\/strong>? Bethesda and id Software throw Doom Guy into a medieval, blood-soaked crusade, mixing brutal combat with a gritty new setting. Armed with devastating weapons and a crushing shield, it sounds like a perfect fit for handheld mayhem. But before you dive in, you\u2019ll want to manage your\u00a0<strong>Doom: The Dark Ages Steam Deck\u00a0<\/strong>expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Previous entries in this genre-defining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/fps-games\">FPS game<\/a> series have run like butter on the Steam Deck. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/doom-eternal\">Doom: Eternal<\/a> is a miracle on Valve\u2019s handheld. However, there\u2019s something different in the water here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/doom-the-dark-ages\">Doom: The Dark Ages<\/a> scales up the series\u2019 visual polish and impeccable art direction, but it sadly leaves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/best-portable-gaming-consoles\">portable gaming consoles<\/a> weeping on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\tContinue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/doom-the-dark-ages\/steam-deck\">Can I play Doom: The Dark Ages on Steam Deck?<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\tMORE FROM POCKET TACTICS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/steam-deck\/review\">Steam Deck review<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/steam-deck-oled\/review\">Steam Deck OLED review<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/steam-deck-2\/release-date\">Steam Deck 2 speculation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can I play Doom: The Dark Ages on Steam Deck? Bethesda and id Software throw Doom Guy into a medieval, blood-soaked crusade, mixing brutal combat with a gritty new setting. Armed with devastating weapons and a crushing shield, it sounds like a perfect fit for handheld mayhem. But before you dive in, you\u2019ll want to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ballpeenhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}