He later clarifies that we can expect "four dragon encounters and three Atlan encounters, the Atlan encounters effectively being their own levels, but the dragon encounters still being standard Doom Slayer on the ground, but the dragon is used to get the player to different points."

You know why historians often refer to medieval days as the dark ages? It’s because id Software had yet to invent Doom, and society lived in absolute disarray until then. Lore-wise, Doom: The Dark Ages is a prequel to the last two instalments in the franchise,

Doom: The Dark Ages will take players to locations from The Doomslayer’s past and “worlds beyond”. The game will not feature a multiplayer component and will instead be an entirely single-player release. Doom: The Dark Ages will also have a larger focus on the story, which ID claims is the studio’s “best yet”.