QUAKE remains a landmark title for fans of classic first-person shooters, with its frenetic gameplay, gritty atmosphere, and pioneering multiplayer modes. Games like Dusk, Amid Evil, and BLOOD channel the QUAKE spirit. Dusk delivers retro shooter action with stylized graphics and relentless combat. Amid Evil adds magical weaponry in fantastical settings, while BLOOD serves up dark humor and intense action in a horror-themed setting. These games offer a classic shooter rush with unique twists. Vote for the one that gets your pulse racing the most.
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Battle through mystical cultists, possessed militants, and darker forces. Discover what lurks beneath the earth in this retro FPS, inspired by your 90's favorites. This game offers a full single-player campaign, endless survival mode, and classic arena multiplayer.
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You carved your soul to shreds serving a dark god. False promises and betrayal were your only reward. Now you settle scores with blood! Experience the madness in this carnage. Gore, unholy war, zombies, gargoyles, hellhounds, and blood-crazed hordes await. Crush the evil of Tchernobog or face eternal damnation in this unhallowed action. Visit a dark near-future world filled with hundreds of bloodthirsty enemies. You fight a nightmare against them.
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Branded a heretic. Now you are chosen. Reclaim our sacred weapons. Take back our ancestral lands. If you can stand, face Amid Evil.
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Slaughter through nightmarish industrial mazes, cityscapes, and alien structures. Cut down the Growth in this fast-paced, merciless, retro-styled first-person shooter.
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Pursue the malevolent Chop Goblins through time. Foil them with devastating weapons in this bite-sized FPS from the creator of Dusk, Iron Lung, and Squirrel Stapler.
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Blast, slice, and shred enemies in this hardcore FPS, inspired by '90s icons. The legendary Quake-1 Tech powers this game. Set in a rotting place, take up arms, unearth old secrets, and hunt the Guardians of the Old World.
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This Xbox port combines Serious Sam: The First Encounter and Serious Sam: The Second Encounter into one game. It features a visual update with a redesigned menu and main character model, making them more cartoonish. Expanded story cutscenes also appear.
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Humanity evolves and meets a strange thing: the destruction of normal time flow. Time rifts form in Earth's atmosphere, linking past and future. These rifts lead to history periods. Aggressive creatures from all times infiltrate our era. These Timestrikers completely wipe out human life. You are a commando trained to investigate a Timestriker attack. You use an
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This is an early Unreal Tournament experience. It includes new content and returning classics. Work remains. You can still play today and earn in-game rewards for Pre-Alpha participants only.
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id software, the studio that started the first-person shooter genre and made multiplayer Deathmatch, brings back Doom as a brutally fun, challenging modern shooter. Relentless demons, impossibly destructive guns, and fast, fluid movement build intense, first-person combat. Obliterate demon hordes in the single-player campaign through Hell's depths, or compete with friends in many multiplayer modes. Use the Doom SnapMap game editor to easily make, play, and share your content.
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The 1997 Sega Saturn version of Duke Nukem 3D came from Lobotomy Software and was published by Sega. This port uses Lobotomy Software's SlaveDriver game engine instead of the classic Build engine; SlaveDriver uses dynamic lighting.
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In Bezoar, the only remaining human city, Major Fletcher, an Army Combat Veteran and CLN soldier, gets pulled into a fight between two of mankind's greatest enemies. He discovers reality is not what it seems. Hard Reset is a single-player PC shooter. It features over-the-top destruction, many enemies, great weapon choices, and a well-made cyberpunk setting. Hard Reset shakes up the shooter scene.
Also ranks #22 on Best Cyberpunk Video Games
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Stranded between Heaven and Hell, your judgment time arrives. The Underworld faces an unholy war, and you are just a piece in the infernal battle. Fight for your purification, and the truths behind the lies appear. Painkiller puts you in a nightmare where monsters swarm you in mobs. Use different weapons and your power to turn into a possessed creature to eliminate enemies.
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Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast multiplayer shooter featuring player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter pushes the FPS genre forward with its portal mechanics, offering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat. Splitgate uses close-quarters combat feels from past shooters while adding a unique twist.
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Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus is the eleventh Wolfenstein game, a sequel to 2014's Wolfenstein: The New Order. The game follows William Joseph "B.J." Blazkowicz as he tries to start a Second American Revolution. You play from a first-person view; most levels require walking. The story has chapters you finish in order. A choice in the prologue changes the whole story; some characters and small plot points change across timelines.
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