admonition : The following contains SPOILERS forDOOM Eternal .

The single - player campaign ofDOOM Eternaltakes players through a variety of demon - infested positioning and climactic boss fights , concluding in a particularly epic - scale , if abrupt , cease . DOOM Eternal ’s goal pits the Slayer against a with child final boss with link to the series ' root and lore .

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BothDOOM Eternal ’s boss fights and regular encounters salute intense fighting for musician to"rip and tear"through , all build up up to one final boss brush , but the sudden end can be a bit unmanageable to understand .   Here’sDOOM Eternal ’s ending , explained .

How DOOM Eternal Ends

fan job after theDOOM Eternallaunch trailerthat the Icon of Sin   would be the plot ’s net honcho , and this turn out to be straight . As a last - ditch effort to destroy the Slayer and the rest of Earth , antagonist Khan Maykr   summon the   mammoth demon in rules of order to save her people , the angel - same beingness of Urdak , with the power of humanity ’s souls . The Slayer wrests control of the Icon away from her , thwarting her plan but set the the demon loose on Earth , so he must ruin it later himself . If players successfully fill out the two - phase boss competitiveness with the Icon , a cutscene plays where the Slayer stabs theCrucible energy swordinto its exposed genius , breaking the vane off in its head teacher . This overcome the   elephantine puppet   and distribute most of the daimon on Earth , saving humanity .

SomeDOOM Eternalreviewersfound this stop a bit too abrupt . While this may be the case , the Icon ’s appearance has a significant connexion toDOOM ’s past . The goat - headed demon originally appear as the then - unnamed last boss of 1994’sDOOM 2 . In that game , it was only a vapid wall texture   that   spawn endless wave of demons to keep the player from hitting its weak spot - a sprite of i d Software co - beginner John Romero ’s headland hide behind the goat skull . The Icon ’s bulwark - head appeared once again inDOOM2016 as an inanimate ornament , but it realise a full , fighting body inDOOM Eternal .

Along with itsconnection to the 1990s game , the Icon has more current lore significance , too . It is the result of a deal between the Betrayer , a phallus of the holy Night Sentinel knights who lift the Doom Slayer , and a Hell Priest to bring   to life the Betrayer ’s utter son . The softwood led to the destruction of the Sentinels ' realm ,   Argent D’Nur , and the Betrayer ’s Logos was brought back as the Icon of Sin , rather than his more human - like form . This can all be a scrap overwhelming to parse through in - secret plan ,   but , like many deeperDOOMlore factoids , players can likely memorize more about the Icon andDOOM ’s other important characters inDOOM Eternal ’s many codex entrance .

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DOOM Eternalwill loss on Google Stadia , PC , PlayStation 4 , and Xbox One on March 20 , 2020 .

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The Doom slayer in Doom Eternal in a hallway with banners draping down.