Mighty Doom was a Doom mobile game being developed by Alpha Dog Games and published by Bethesda Softworks. After a year of rumors, Bethesda opened early access testing in Canada and New Zealand for Android phones and tablets for version 0.5.0 on April 12th, 2021.
The game was launched worldwide on March 21, 2023, about three years after the release of Doom Eternal, which it is loosely based on. However, on May 7, 2024, following Bethesda Softworks' controversial decision to cut four subsidiary studios out of its budget and close them down, including Alpha Dog Games, the game was untimely discontinued on August 7, 2024, with no viable substitute developer available to keep supporting the game.
Following the closure of Alpha Dog Games, a spiritual spin-off, Scrap Showdown, is in development for undetermined platforms.
Weapons[]
Weapons in Mighty Doom are split into three categories: primary, secondary and ultimate weapons. The primary weapon is fired automatically, whereas the secondary and ultimate weapons are both triggered manually by the player once they have enough charge. The player's secondary weapon will recharge every ten seconds or upon completion of a room, unless an ability is triggered which recharges it sooner. Ultimate weapons are charged by killing demons, with varying amounts of charge being restored based on the weapon and demon killed.
Each weapon has a variety of cosmetic skins. These skins range from simple palette swaps to brand new models with custom sounds or visual effects, though none of them have an impact on performance. Weapon skins may be purchased using crystals, by paying for time-limited DLC packs, or by progressing through season passes.
Primary Weapons[]
Name | Element | Skin | How to Unlock |
---|---|---|---|
Heavy Cannon | Kinetic
(Explosive) |
Default | Unlocked by default |
Praetor | Unlock with crystals | ||
Baron of Hell | Mini Slayer's DLC pack | ||
Mocktail | Mocktails DLC pack | ||
Fireworks | Available in Season 4 | ||
Machine Gun | Available in Season 5 | ||
Rainbow | DOOMicorn DLC pack | ||
Gibbo | Available in Season 6 | ||
Glacial | Available in Season 10 | ||
Combat Shotgun | Kinetic
(Fire) |
Default | Unlocked by default |
Praetor | Unlock with crystals | ||
Fireworks | Available in Season 4 | ||
Rainbow | DOOMicorn DLC pack | ||
Gibbo | Available in Season 6 | ||
Blunderbuss | Available in Season 8 | ||
Glacial | Available in Season 10 | ||
Plasma Rifle | Plasma | Default | Unlocked by default |
Astro | Unlock with crystals | ||
Punch | Available in Season 3 | ||
Hyperblaster | Available in Season 5 | ||
Rainbow | DOOMicorn DLC pack | ||
Gibbo | Available in Season 6 | ||
Gingerbread | Available in Season 9 | ||
Glacial | Available in Season 10 | ||
Chaingun | Kinetic
(Ice) |
Default | Unlocked by default |
Astro | Unlock with crystals | ||
Samurai | Available in Season 2 | ||
Mocktail | Mocktails DLC pack | ||
Chaingun | Available in Season 5 | ||
Rainbow | DOOMicorn DLC pack | ||
Funny Bones | Available in Season 7 | ||
Gingerbread | Available in Season 9 | ||
Burst Rifle | Kinetic
(Toxic) |
Default | Unlocked by default |
Praetor | Unlock with crystals | ||
Fireworks | Available in Season 4 | ||
Rainbow | DOOMicorn DLC pack | ||
Gibbo | Available in Season 6 | ||
Funny Bones | Available in Season 7 | ||
Gingerbread | Available in Season 9 |
Secondary Weapons
Name | Element | Skin | How to Unlock |
---|---|---|---|
Rocket Launcher | Explosive
(Ice) |
Default | Unlocked by default |
Caution | Unlock with crystals | ||
Cacodemon | Mini Slayer's DLC pack | ||
Mocktail | Mocktails DLC pack | ||
White Rabbit | Available in Season 1 | ||
Fireworks | Available in Season 4 | ||
Rocket Launcher | Available in Season 5 | ||
Rainbow | DOOMicorn DLC pack | ||
Gingerbread | Available in Season 9 | ||
Gauss Cannon | Kinetic
(Toxic) |
Default | Unlocked by default |
Tech | Unlock with crystals | ||
White Rabbit | Available in Season 1 | ||
Tiki | Available in Season 3 | ||
Rail Gun | Available in Season 5 | ||
Rainbow | DOOMicorn DLC pack | ||
Funny Bones | Available in Season 7 | ||
Rustic | Available in Season 8 | ||
Glacial | Available in Season 10 | ||
Super Shotgun | Kinetic
(Fire) |
Default | Unlocked by default |
Bloodstained | Unlock with crystals | ||
White Rabbit | Available in Season 1 | ||
Bahama | Available in Season 3 | ||
Super Shotgun | Available in Season 5 | ||
Rainbow | DOOMicorn DLC pack | ||
Funny Bones | Available in Season 7 | ||
Rustic | Available in Season 8 | ||
Ballista | Plasma
(Explosive) |
Default | Unlocked by default |
Purple | Unlock with crystals | ||
White Rabbit | Available in Season 1 | ||
Mocktail | Mocktails DLC pack | ||
Fireworks | Available in Season 4 | ||
Freedom Bird | Available in Season 4 | ||
Rainbow | DOOMicorn DLC pack | ||
Rustic | Available in Season 8 | ||
Glacial | Available in Season 10 | ||
Sentinel Hammer | Ice
(Toxic, Plasma) |
Default | Unlocked by default |
Sentinel | Unlock with crystals | ||
Gibbo | Available in Season 6 | ||
Funny Bones | Available in Season 7 | ||
Rustic | Available in Season 8 | ||
Gingerbread | Available in Season 9 | ||
Ice Axe | Available in Season 10 |
Demons[]
There are a variety of demons in Mighty Doom which match up with the rest of the Doom franchise.
Normal Demons[]
Archetype | Variants | Weakness | Note |
---|---|---|---|
Blaster Solider | Single-shot | Explosive | |
Multi-shot | |||
Strogg Enforcer | Their attacks ricochet once, unlike standard variants of the Blaster Soldier
Replaced the standard single-shot Blaster Soldier during Season 5 | ||
Cacodemon | Standard | Toxic | |
Cyber-cacodemon | Plasma | ||
Carcass | Standard | ||
Gargoyle | Standard | Fire | |
Hell Knight | Standard | Toxic | |
Hell Razer | Single-shot | Ballistic | |
Multi-shot | |||
Imp | Fire | Ice | |
Ice | Fire | ||
Holiday | Replaced the fire Imp during Season 3 | ||
Lost Soul | Standard | Ballistic | |
Mecha Zombie | Standard | Explosive | |
Pinky | Standard | Toxic | |
Prowler | Standard | Fire | |
Revenant | Standard | Fire | |
Shield Soldier | Standard | Explosive | |
Tentacle | Standard | Fire | Unlike other demons, Tentacles don't actively attack the player unless they approach them |
Whiplash | Standard | Explosive | |
Zombie | Standard | Plasma | |
Fire | |||
Toxic | Explosive | ||
Plasma | |||
Ice | Fire | ||
Zombunny | Plasma | Replaced all variants during Season 1 |
Boss Demons[]
Archetypes | Variants | Weakness | Note |
---|---|---|---|
Arachnotron | Standard | Blast | |
Baron of Hell | Standard | ||
Blaster Soldier | Standard | Explosive | |
Strogg Enforcer | Variant of the Blaster Solider which appeared during Season 5 | ||
Cacodemon | Standard | Toxic | |
Toxic | Plasma | ||
Carcass | Standard | ||
Doom Hunter | Standard | Ballistic | |
Gargoyle | Standard | Fire | |
Hell Knight | Standard | Toxic | |
Hell Priest | Fire | Ice | |
Ice | Fire | ||
Hell Razer | Standard | Ballistic | |
Imp | Standard | Ice | |
Ice | Fire | ||
Holiday | Fire | Variant of the Imp which appeared during Season 4 | |
Lost Soul | Standard | Ballistic | |
Mancubus | Standard | Ice | |
Cyber Mancubus | Plasma | ||
Hotdogcubus | Variant of the Cyber Mancubus which appeared during Season 3 | ||
Mecha Zombie | Standard | Explosive | |
Pain Elemental | Standard | ||
Samurai | Variant of the Pain Elemental which appeared during Season 2 | ||
Pinky | Standard | Toxic | |
Prowler | Standard | Fire | |
Revenant | Standard | Fire | |
Shield Soldier | Standard | Explosive | |
Tentacle | Standard | Fire | |
Whiplash | Standard | Explosive | |
Zombie | Standard | Plasma | |
Fire | |||
Zombunny | Plasma | Variant of the standard Zombie which appeared during Season 1 |
Reaction[]
The official trailer has been panned by fans due to its similarity to the popular mobile game Archero (a top-down shooter featuring an archer), for hyper-casual gameplay, for in-app purchases that can reach up to NZ$174.99 (Approximately US$124.93), for its cartoony art style, and general disregard for the Doom brand. The few critic reviews are mostly negative for similar reasons.[1] Thus, Mighty Doom is often considered a low-effort "cash-grab" by Bethesda, due to the nearly identical gameplay to another popular game and the branding of one of their most popular properties.
Spiritual spin-off[]
After the closure of Alpha Dog Games, former developers from the studio formed the indie game developer company Supar Games, also headquartered in Canada, and began development of a spiritual spin-off to Mighty Doom titled Scrap Showdown and inspired by the eleventh season's namesake "Death Blossom" event map, where the player must kill as many endlessly respawning enemies in a closed arena within a time limit.
Trivia[]
- The App's size is 455 MB for the latest version, and 304 MB for the Android Package file.
- The game was also released just weeks after a similar mobile game, Tomb Raider Reloaded, launched worldwide on February 14, 2023, the fictional birthday of the series' protagonist, Lara Croft. In addition to there being significant overlap between the behavior and mechanics of both games, they also share the distinction of being developed by a Canadian game developer company (Reloaded was developed by Emerald City Games at its launch), as well as being part of a video game series that debuted in the 1990s (Tomb Raider's first game, which Reloaded adapts, released in 1996, three years after the first Doom game). Reloaded, supported by DECA Games after 2023, outlasted Mighty DOOM due to its premature shutdown.
- On initial worldwide launch, Google Play issued the ESRB's Teen rating for the Android version. However, after a few updates that introduced dynamic seasonal content, Google Play re-rated the game Mature 17+ due to the gruesome dismemberment that occurs throughout gameplay in spite of the game's cartoony, caricatured art style. Despite this, this is the first Doom game to feature adjustable censorship options with respect to blood effects, possibly to allow the game to be released in countries with stricter policies on graphic violence like China and Germany; players can change the blood color or remove it altogether.
- In addition to featuring adjustable censorship as a first, other "firsts" for the DOOM series that this game achieves is that it is also the first online-only game, first free-to-play game, first top-down game, first roguelike game and first mobile-exclusive game in the series. Furthermore, this game introduces the Acid Spit and Arc Grenade Equipment Launcher configurations for the first time in this series to allow it to inflict a wider variety of harmful environmental effects beyond the three types of launcher ordnance available in Eternal.
References[]
- ↑ Early Access review by Android Police made on April 13th, 2021
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