This game is currently in the Humble Choice for November 2023, and this is part of my coverage of the bundle. If you are interested in the game and it's before December 5th, 2023, consider picking up the game as part of the current monthly bundle.
Doom 2020.
As I played Prodeus I couldn’t help myself, this is a game that screams Doom’s name as it emulates the king of all shooters so hard, and yet, that’s me praising Prodeus. The levels look great, the music got my blood pumping, and the enemies while taken from Doom look awesome. This feels like a version of the original Doom done in the modern era, with a similar-sized team. This just gave me flashbacks to 30 years ago when I was running around Phobos and Deimos for the first time, just having the most awesome time blasting enemies through a variety of levels. Prodeus is a boomer shooter that also seems to remind people why this genre is popular rather than trying to reinvent the wheel at every turn.
I wish I could end there, but Prodeus does have some issues. There’s almost no difficulty in the early levels. I played on Medium and rarely went below 90 percent health and armor. On Ultra Hard, the hardest difficulty level, I had almost no death the entire third level, and the respawn system will trivialize the difficulty I think. I’ve heard the game does get harder after what people call the first world, but experienced players won’t be too challenged.
Pick this up if you were ever a fan of the original Doom, this lives up to the original incarnation, and that’s about as much praise as I can give. I’d have to play more but I could even see giving this a nod over Doom Eternal, as sacrilegious as that is to say. I like it that much.
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Doom 2020.
As I played Prodeus I couldn’t help myself, this is a game that screams Doom’s name as it emulates the king of all shooters so hard, and yet, that’s me praising Prodeus. The levels look great, the music got my blood pumping, and the enemies while taken from Doom look awesome. This feels like a version of the original Doom done in the modern era, with a similar-sized team. This just gave me flashbacks to 30 years ago when I was running around Phobos and Deimos for the first time, just having the most awesome time blasting enemies through a variety of levels. Prodeus is a boomer shooter that also seems to remind people why this genre is popular rather than trying to reinvent the wheel at every turn.
I wish I could end there, but Prodeus does have some issues. There’s almost no difficulty in the early levels. I played on Medium and rarely went below 90 percent health and armor. On Ultra Hard, the hardest difficulty level, I had almost no death the entire third level, and the respawn system will trivialize the difficulty I think. I’ve heard the game does get harder after what people call the first world, but experienced players won’t be too challenged.
Pick this up if you were ever a fan of the original Doom, this lives up to the original incarnation, and that’s about as much praise as I can give. I’d have to play more but I could even see giving this a nod over Doom Eternal, as sacrilegious as that is to say. I like it that much.
If you enjoyed this review or want to know what I think of other games in the bundle, check out the full review on or subscribe to my Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/NSoVlkgy0D0