The id Tech 8 game engine, used by Doom: The Dark Ages, was released on May 15, 2025 and is a technological successor of the id Tech 7 engine, which powered Doom Eternal. It features "all-new dynamic interactive ray-traced lighting and shadows, higher-fidelity image quality, increased gore and destructible environments," and more. At Developer_Direct 2025, id Software revealed gameplay details[14] and the PC specifications[15] for Doom: The Dark Ages, which is powered by their id Tech 8 engine and was released on May 15, 2025. The id Tech 8 engine increases the maximum number of on-screen enemies and supports path tracing and realistic game physics, featuring destructible environments. It is the first generation of id Tech engine that requires dedicated raytracing-enabled hardware, primarily due to the lighting to be fully raytraced global illumination.