Doom and Quake titles are getting consolidated on Steam to make fans' lives easier

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According to id Software Steam's page, they have made significant changes to make the process of finding and playing Doom and Quake games far easier. There are a number of variations of these titles, and it can be frustrating to figure out where they are in the Steam libraries of gamers around the world.

Starting on August 10, 2022, the Doom and Quake classic games on Steam are going to be combined to make finding a particular version of the various games much easier as a whole.

Instead of featuring several versions of Doom and Quake, they will be combined into individual entries for these games. Doom II is a fine example to demonstrate this change. Instead of separate instances for Doom II, Enhanced, Master Levels, and Final Doom, all of these will soon be under the same listing.

When a player boots the game, they will be able to select which version of the game they are interested in. The same goes for the various Quake games that are available on Steam. Additionally, when purchasing and installing them, all versions of these games will be installed together.

While that may sound intimidating in terms of disk space, these are all games from the 90s, so they do not take up much storage space. In fact, it should be completely negligible for the average Steam user. Thanks to id Software, they showed exactly what games will be merged and how.

When it comes to Ultimate Doom, it will now be changed to Doom (1993), and there are no further changes when it comes to this game.

Doom II includes Final Doom and Master Levels as one package, and each game can be launched separately.

Doom 3 is being merged as well, which contains the base game, Resurrection of Evil, and Doom 3: BFG Edition. It’s worth noting that people who own Doom 3 or