These are the top 100 video game shooters of all time. From the developers of the original Halo games, Bungie, Destiny 2 is the co-op FPS looter-shooter that is the go-to for fans looking for the best gunplay in the industry. With Quake Champions, which went free-to-play in August 2018, Id delivers classic Quake action at a speed you can only get on PC unlike most of the studio’s recent work, it isn’t available on. Other considerations for inclusion include legacy and influence on the genre popularity historical quality (was it incredible at the time?) modern quality (does the experience hold up?) and lastly pure editorial preference. Naming just 100 greats is no easy task - how can Half-Life 2's pitch-perfect storytelling be compared to Doom's interplay of tension and player power? But through sheer determination and plenty of shouting, we've managed to narrow the nearly endless supply of shooters down to 100 must-play picks.Īll the shooters on this list must all obviously exhibit very high overall quality. ( View all tags) Explore Shooter games tagged 2D on itch.io Upload your games to itch.io to have them show up here. Shooters have continued to evolve and remain relevant longer than nearly any other video game genre. Deceit shooter for fans of the mafia and Among Us games Unturned shooter and survival in a Minecraft style Warface free to play game from Crytek PlanetSide 2 huge, large-scale battles are the heart of this production Splitgate arena shooter inspired by Doom and Quake Wolfenstein: Enemy. Since then twitch-skill games like Serious Sam and Painkiller have helped us blow off steam, tactical shooters like Rainbow Six and Star Wars Republic Commando have worked our brains, and franchises like Halo and Call of Duty have helped shooters dominate the video game landscape.
We've been overcoming impossible odds in shooters ever since Wolfenstein 3D first popularized genre way back in 1992.