🔫The 17 Best FPS Games of All Time
First-person shooters have split into three very different things: tightly authored campaigns, competitive multiplayer, and immersive sims that happen to hand you a gun. This list ranks all three, because most people looking for the best FPS games want the feel, not the category.
Every entry lists platforms and links to a similar-games page, so if you know one shooter you like you can jump straight to more of it.
Best single-player FPS campaigns
Half-Life 2 (2004)
- PC
- Xbox
- PS3
- Mac
Physics-driven set pieces and a world that keeps moving without cutting away from you. Still the best-paced shooter campaign ever built.
Doom Eternal (2020)
- PC
- PS5
- Xbox Series X|S
- Switch
A shooter that plays like a fighting game — resource management through aggression, with no place to hide. Demanding and exhilarating.
Titanfall 2 (2016)
- PC
- PS5
- Xbox Series X|S
Six hours with a new idea in every mission and movement that never stops feeling good. The best value campaign of the last decade.
Halo: Combat Evolved (2001)
- Xbox
- PC
- Xbox Series X|S
Two weapons, grenades and melee — the sandbox that made console shooters work. Best played co-op in split screen.
Metro Exodus (2019)
- PC
- PS5
- Xbox Series X|S
Semi-open survival shooting across post-apocalyptic Russia, with weapon jams and hand-crafted ammo. Atmosphere over spectacle.
BioShock (2007)
- PC
- PS5
- Xbox
- Switch
Plasmid powers and an underwater city that tells its story through audio logs and architecture. The twist still works.
Best multiplayer FPS games
Counter-Strike 2 (2023)
- PC
Round-based tactical shooting where economy and communication matter more than aim. Free, and the deepest competitive FPS available.
Overwatch 2 (2022)
- PC
- PS5
- Xbox Series X|S
- Switch
Hero-based team shooting with roles that suit non-aimers as much as sharpshooters. Matches run about ten minutes.
Apex Legends (2019)
- PC
- PS5
- Xbox Series X|S
- Switch
Battle royale with Titanfall's movement and the best ping system in the genre. Squads of three, no microphone required.
Battlefield 1 (2016)
- PC
- PS4
- Xbox
64-player warfare with destructible terrain and a genuinely sombre tone. Conquest matches feel like scenes rather than scoreboards.
Rainbow Six Siege (2015)
- PC
- PS5
- Xbox Series X|S
Destructible walls turn every round into a fresh geometry problem. Slow, tense and unforgiving of noise.
Team Fortress 2 (2007)
- PC
- Mac
Nine classes, one of gaming's best art directions, and it is still free. Casual servers remain the friendliest FPS lobbies online.
Best immersive sims and unusual shooters
Prey (2017)
- PC
- PS4
- Xbox
- PS5
A space station you can solve rather than shoot through, with a GLOO cannon that doubles as architecture. Dense and quietly brilliant.
Deathloop (2021)
- PC
- PS5
- Xbox Series X|S
A time loop you crack like a puzzle box, one assassination at a time. Loops are short enough for an evening.
Dishonored 2 (2016)
- PC
- PS4
- Xbox
- PS5
First-person stealth with powers that let you skip whole buildings. The Clockwork Mansion level is one of the best ever made.
Superhot (2016)
- PC
- PS4
- Xbox
- Switch
- VR
Time only moves when you do, turning firefights into puzzles. Levels last seconds; runs last an hour.
Ultrakill (2020)
- PC
Style-ranked movement shooting that combines Doom's speed with Devil May Cry's scoring. Punishing, and enormously satisfying.
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