Bethesda's 40th Anniversary Sale Cuts DOOM: The Dark Ages DLC 50 Percent One Month After Launch

Bethesda Softworks just turned 40 and the publisher is celebrating with a Steam publisher sale that drops up to 75 percent off its biggest hits, including a 50 percent cut on DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations, the DLC id Software shipped a single month ago on July 7, 2026. The deal lands on the QuakeCon 30th Anniversary Sale page and is live across Steam right now, with the same discount running on GOG, QuakeCon organizers confirmed this week.

The headline discount is hard to ignore. DOOM: The Dark Ages, the medieval prequel that launched May 14, 2025 to a Mostly Positive critical reception on Steam, is down 67 percent to R$87,06 from its R$264,90 base. The freshly released Revelations expansion, which adds new levels, demons and the long-teased Chain Lance plus Ripper 3.0, is 50 percent off at R$49,95 down from R$99,90. Bethesda calls the sale a thank you to four decades of players, but the speed at which a one-month-old paid expansion is being cut in half tells its own story about how id's 2025 flagship is moving in 2026.

The Full Bethesda Publisher Sale Lineup

The Bethesda 40th Anniversary Publisher Sale on Steam bundles dozens of titles across The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, DOOM, Quake, Arkane and MachineGames catalogs. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is 30 percent off at R$185,43. Dishonored: Death of the Outsider is 80 percent off at R$17,99. RAGE 2 is also 80 percent off at R$23,99. DEATHLOOP is 80 percent off at R$41,49, and The Elder Scrolls Online: Gold Road is included in the publisher event with its own deal.

Bethesda's bundles do most of the heavy lifting. The DOOM Anthology bundle is 67 percent off at R$120,63 and bundles every modern DOOM release into one buy. The Fallout Franchise bundle is 64 percent off at R$132,63 from R$366,32, which is the deepest single discount on any Bethesda collection in the sale. The Classic DOOM bundle rounds out the lineup with another deep cut for anyone who wants the foundational releases that put id Software on the map.

What Is Missing And Why Players Are Frustrated

The sale's biggest omissions are exactly the bundles longtime fans reach for. The Skyrim Special Edition All DLC Included version, the Fallout 4 Game of the Year Edition with all DLC included and the Fallout 76 storefront entry are all absent from the publisher event. Players noticed within hours. The community response ranges from polite disappointment to outright hostility toward Bethesda parent company leadership, with Steam discussions calling out the missing complete editions as a pattern of Bethesda nickel-and-diming its most loyal fanbase on a celebration sale that should have included them.

The Fallout 76 absence is the strangest of the three. Bethesda is actively selling the live-service title through its own launcher but skipped it for a Steam publisher sale that is supposed to honor 40 years of the studio. QuakeCon's official X account framed the sale around Bethesda's 40th and id Software's 35th anniversaries, but the headline games that defined those four decades from The Terminator-era RPGs to the modern DOOM Slayer trilogy are either split into DLC-by-DLC purchases or missing entirely. There is no Bethesda-published official statement yet on whether the complete-edition gaps will be filled before the sale ends.

Why DOOM: TDA Revelations Going 50 Percent Off So Fast Matters

DOOM: The Dark Ages shipped to Mostly Positive reviews and respectable sales, but it has not matched the momentum of DOOM (2016) or DOOM Eternal. id Software laid off a portion of its QA team earlier in 2026 and id co-founder John Carmack's studio history weighs heavily on every DLC decision the company makes now. Putting a 50 percent discount on a brand-new paid expansion one month after launch is a quiet signal that Bethesda wants to move units on a back catalog that still has cultural weight, and is willing to accept margin compression to do it.

For players who skipped the base game, this is the cheapest legal path in. DOOM: The Dark Ages at R$87 plus Revelations at R$49,95 totals R$136,95 for the full medieval Slayer experience with the new Chain Lance weapon and Ripper 3.0 finisher. That is cheaper than the cost of the standard edition at launch and dramatically cheaper than a next-gen port of a classic DOOM would have been in another era. The Ripper 3.0 update alone, which finally brings the long-requested Glory Kill melee finisher parity to The Dark Ages, is worth the DLC price even at full cost.

Critical Pixel Take

Bethesda's 40th is a real milestone and the publisher deserves credit for hitting it with discounts this deep across most of its catalog. The Oblivion Remastered cut is generous for a 2026 release, the Fallout franchise bundle at 64 percent off is the single best deal in the entire event, and DOOM Anthology at 67 percent off is the cheapest legal way to own the modern Slayer trilogy on PC. QuakeCon's pairing of Bethesda's 40th with id Software's 35th and Quake's 30th is the right framing for an event that has to honor three studios at once.

The Skyrim and Fallout 4 GOTY omissions are still a bad look. There is no good reason a publisher marking a 40-year anniversary would leave its two most complete-edition staples out of the deal when those exact SKUs are available on every other storefront on the internet. Buy DOOM: The Dark Ages and Revelations now while they are at their lowest prices, pick up the Fallout franchise bundle at 64 percent off, and skip the publisher sale entirely if you were hoping for a Skyrim anniversary surprise. Bethesda's 40th is worth celebrating. The Steam storefront version of it is not.