Doom: The Dark Ages won't have any multiplayer modes because id Software wanted to focus on "levelling up the single-player experience"

The cat is out of the bag. Doom: The Dark Ages will launch on May 15, 2025, and it’ll be the third ‘nu-Doom’ game from esteemed developer id Software. But this game, which is confusingly a prequel to the instant classic Doom (2016), will eschew a trend established both by the first game in the rebooted series, and 2020’s Doom Eternal: it won’t have multiplayer.