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Background[]

This timeline overlaps the Slayer timeline, and Enhanced timeline.

In the Doom 64: The Story (Remaster) for the Doom 64 (2020 remaster) Doom 64 backstory is re-imagined as a prequel to Doom (2016)/Doom Eternal. There are a number details that are changed. For example the original version of the game was a direct sequel to Super Nintendo Doom (similar Doom Original, the three episode version minus Thy Flesh Consumed, and no indication of Doom II having taken place in that universe). There are several references to Phobos invasion in marketing related to the game (game's website/Nintendo Power, etc).

The remaster on the other hand places the game following Doom II (there are no direct references to other elements of the extended classic Doom timeline such as Final Doom/No Rest for the Living though those are less important to the main backstory). They are generally listed as official episodes (along with the latest Legacy of Rust) in official compilation releases (including the latest Doom I + Doom II but for sake of simplification these are not listed on this version of timeline.

Doom 64 remastered references details from the Doom 3 backstory such as the UAC Mars Research Facilities (which are also mentioned in Doom I Enhanced):

You are a marine, one of Earth's toughest, hardened in combat and trained for action. Shortly after reporting for duty at the Union Aerospace Corporation's Mars research facility, a massive demonic invasion overwhelms the base, leaving chaos, horror and uncertainty in its wake. As one of only a few survivors, you must use overwhelming firepower and all of your combat skill to battle through the demon hordes, find out what went wrong and prevent the evil from spreading. Only you stand between Hell and Earth.

Doom 64 Enhanced/Remaster's backstory is as such:

DOOM 64 is an action first-person shooter and a direct sequel to the events of DOOM II. Years have passed since you stopped Hell's invasion of Earth. Quarantined for humanity’s safety, the UAC research facilities on Mars were abandoned and forgotten...until now. A signal from a degraded satellite suggests a single entity remains, and it has the power to resurrect the demons. As the only surviving marine who fought Hell’s forces, you are sent on a lone crusade to hunt down the Mother of Demons and stop a renewed demonic invasion. Fight against demons in your crusade to hunt down the Mother of Demons and stop Hell's invasion.

So it is a reference to similar events in the Doom 3 timeline (rather than the Phobos invasion (Nintendo timeline) or Jupiter moon invasion (Midway timeline). ...or similar equivalents (see ID multiverse timeline (Doom 3 as prequel) or Doom RPG timeline). In fact the UAC Mars Research Facilities first appeared in Doom 3, and it’s reference in the Doom 64 remaster story appears to be a direct reference to that location. It is similar to the UAC Mars Base invasion from the Doom II timeline (see Doom II manual and Marine (Doom II).

Hugo Martin has gone on the record to say every numbered game is indeed canon (including Doom 3). He later clarified that everything including Doom Reboot and Doom 3 links back through Doom 64.[1] It's unclear if this means its in a separate universe tied into the Doom multiverse (through Doom 64/Hell) or a prequel to Classic Doom and Doom 64 (though the Doom 64 Remaster backstory to Mars invasion of UAC Mars Research Facilities appears to be a direct reference to Doom 3 events set before Doom 64).

In any case it seemingly places Doom 3 before Doom 64, but it’s unclear if it takes place before or after Doom 2, or even before Doom 1. It’s even possible that the Mars invasion referenced in Doom 2 is the same one from Doom 3 in this timeline. Although if this timeline follows the Marine (D2: TOSG) history or similar that pre-doom 2 invasion of mars may not have occurred in same way/same point in time as the manual implied instead making Doom 2 take place directly after the ending to Ultimate Doom. In which case the Doom 64/Doom 3 invasion could have occurred at any point in the timeline band for Doom 64 (even after Doom 2).

In addition there is a new mini-episode the Lost Levels that ties Doom 64 into Doom 2016/Doom Eternal's backstory. And Doom Eternal makes reference to the Daisy backstory from Thy Flesh Consumed.

There are no specific dates given in the remaster timeline content. However based on dates given in Doom 2016/Eternal it could be closer to the Doom Retcon timeline/Doom 3 timeline/Doom RPG timeline equivalents in the 22nd century (c. 2145).

Classic Doom[]

2145
  • Doom I
    • The demons came and the marines died...except one. You are the last defense against Hell.
    • Doom Guy fights through Mars (or Phobos depending on version), Deimos and Hell, returns to Earth, liberates a nearby city. Discovers Daisy is killed.
  • Doom II
    • Hell has invaded Earth, and to save it, you must battle mightier demons with even more powerful weapons.
  • Doom 3 (?)[2]
  • Doom 64
    • DOOM 64 is an action first-person shooter and a direct sequel to the events of DOOM II. Years have passed since you stopped Hell's invasion of Earth. Quarantined for humanity’s safety, the UAC research facilities on Mars were abandoned and forgotten...until now. A signal from a degraded satellite suggests a single entity remains, and it has the power to resurrect the demons. As the only surviving marine who fought Hell’s forces, you are sent on a lone crusade to hunt down the Mother of Demons and stop a renewed demonic invasion. Fight against demons in your crusade to hunt down the Mother of Demons and stop Hell's invasion.
  • Lost Levels
    • The Marine had not expected to be torn from Hell so soon after his fateful decision. Getting back there was his only concern. The plans of the sister Resurrector to exterminate him had failed. A grim vision took hold of his mind as the demon carcasses steam in his wake. Stretched before him is was a path of perpetual torment... A path through DOOM...

Doom Reboot series[]

(past, future and/or parallel universe, Doom 64 leads into the 2016 reboot series per the Lost Levels ending...)

  • 1 Dekillion Years Ago
    • Rise of Devoth.
  • 12.8 billion years ago.[4]
  • 80 million years ago.
  • 60 million years ago.
  • 80,000 Years Ago
    • Doom The Dark Age
  • 2149
  • 2163

See also[]

Notes[]

The Limited Run games release of Doom 64, reprinted the original manual and its backstory. The Limited Run games box also more or less copies the old reference to it being a direct sequel to Doom 1. See LRG timeline.

References[]

  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRm1jxpyVr0
  2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRm1jxpyVr0
  3. ↑ Doom 64 Remaster
  4. ↑ https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en/article/5PkMnbb4vBhaG6rfCSTbs6/doom-by-the-numbers-6-oodles-of-eons "Now, an ‘eon’ can describe any amount of long, undefined time but scientifically, an eon is approximately a billion years. Here’s where things get purely theoretical (but oh-so-fun): let’s assume that the countless eons the DOOM Slayer waged war against Hell went for, well, as long as this particular universe can count. Our universe is widely considered to be about 13.8 billion years old, which we’ll say is 13.8 eons. "
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