Doom vender snart tilbage med et fjerde kapitel, men udover en kort teaser-video ved vi stort set intet om spillet. Pete Hines fra Bethesda fortæller i et interview med OXM, at de ikke forventer folk vil købe spillet, bare fordi der står "Doom" på æsken.
Han sammnligner spillet med Wolfenstein: The New Order, der også er udgivet af Bethesda, og er en nyfortolkning af en gammel, klassis serie:
"The last couple of games were either 'ok' or 'not great'. It wasn't a franchise where people were desperate for the next one. Wolfenstein isn't Uncharted. We knew this would take some explaining. But developer Machine Games has now untarnished the IP."
Samme princip gælder for det nye Doom, siger Hines. Spillet kan ikke leve på navnet alene, og er nødt til at bevise sit værd ved at stå på egne ben.
"We view that similarly to Wolfenstein. Because it's been so long since the last Doom game. We are going in as if we need to prove ourselves all over again. We have no free passes. Nobody will assume this is going to be awesome."
"We are going to have to prove that this is something that's going to be fun and different that you need to pay attention to. That has to be our default position, we can't be: 'It's Doom, of course you're going to play it'. But that just makes us work harder."