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394 Shooter games reviewed and scored, best first.
394 reviews
NetEase's free-to-play superhero take on the Overwatch formula launched with a genuinely player-friendly economic model widely praised as a new industry standard, but a real, specific, remarkably consistent complaint from players with thousands of hours — that its matchmaking is deliberately tuned for engagement over fairness — has become the dominant, load-bearing thread in its Mostly Positive reception more than a year on.
6 / 10
Amazing Seasun Games' free-to-play mech shooter nails fast, weighty Striker combat, but a controversial anti-cheat, bot-stuffed ranked matches, and aggressive monetization drag down the experience.
6 / 10
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Unknown Worlds Entertainment's asymmetric marines-versus-aliens hybrid remains, more than a decade later, one of the only games that genuinely fuses first-person shooting with real-time strategy commanding — a landmark design reviewers say has never been properly replicated, now weighed down by a shrinking, veteran-dominated community that a large and consistent share of reviewers describe as actively hostile to newcomers.
6 / 10
A gorgeously art-directed Warhammer 40,000 underhive shooter whose environments draw consistent praise even from critical reviewers, held back by the single most-mentioned complaint this outlet has found in any game reviewed this session — enemy AI reviewers describe as janky and frustrating — spread consistently across every year since a 2021 launch that never fully resolved it.
6 / 10
A third-person sci-fi horde shooter that pairs Vampire Survivors-scale enemy counts with build-your-own ARPG crafting, launched into Early Access with a specific roadmap, an honest price and zero independent track record to check any of it against.
6 / 10
An ambitious co-op hybrid of open-world survival, base building, and extraction-shooter looting, held back at launch by rough optimization and instance balance that undercut a genuinely interesting core idea.
6 / 10
A solo-developed cyberpunk movement shooter whose gunplay and build depth earn extraordinary devotion from players who stick with it, undercut by a brutally hostile new-player experience, a shrinking population, and a cluttered interface that this review's sample says keeps newcomers from ever reaching the fun.
6 / 10
A Free, Fifteen-Minute Student Project With No Padding Out of Range is a free twin-stick arena shooter released on September 14, 2026 by Yoho Games, and its own store page is refre
6 / 10
An on-rails arcade space shooter dripping with 80s and 90s space opera anime style, whose gorgeous presentation, voice acting, and soundtrack earn genuine admiration, tempered by a widely repeated complaint that its Star Fox-inspired marketing oversells a shorter, more repetitive, and more linear experience than buyers expect.
6 / 10
A 4-player co-op tactical roguelite shooter from the studio behind Black Mesa, whose jump from Early Access to "1.0" this week delivered almost exactly what one detailed reviewer predicted it would — one new map and a few new guns, not the broader AI, economy and content overhaul the developer's own Early Access roadmap had promised.
6 / 10
A 2014 mashup of Doom-era corridor shooting and roguelike permadeath, still recognisable as an ancestor of the boomer-shooter roguelite boom — and still carrying a decade of unpatched jank to prove it.
6 / 10
A local-multiplayer physics brawler set in a Japanese public bathhouse, where the "Survivor" in the name means outlasting three rivals on a frictionless floor with a water gun, not building a horde-clearing arsenal — a genre-savvy buyer needs to know that before anything else, along with the fact that every mode here is played on one couch, not online.
6 / 10
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A horde-shooter prequel that gets the guns and the chaos right but arrived rough enough — inconsistent level design, dated cutscene animation, real performance problems — that its own longtime fans describe a troubled development rather than the Doom-Eternal-style revival some hoped for.
6 / 10
Puppeteering an Unconscious Man Through a Massacre Sleeper Agent is a free-to-play top-down twin-stick shooter built entirely around one gleefully absurd gimmick: two mischievous a
6 / 10
A cheap wave-based survival FPS with a case-opening loadout system that wins over reviewers who push past a confusing, ammo-starved opening stretch to discover a genuinely addictive "one more run" loop, held back by real complaints about enemy and ammo balance, thin content variety, and a learning curve steep enough that this review found at least one reviewer initially wrote off the game entirely before reversing course mid-review.
6 / 10
A cute pixel-art wave-defense shooter sequel following a soldier's little sister into the same doomed war, whose charming presentation and character-recruitment loop draw genuine devotion, tempered by a large, specific negative-review consensus that the core gameplay is too shallow, too easy, and too short to sustain its story-driven replay structure.
6 / 10
Proton Studio put a first-person gun in the clicker genre's most abstract hand, turning "tap the cookie" into "shoot the cube wall." The framing genuinely changes the opening hours, but the studio moved on to two spiritual successors years ago and hasn't touched this one since a December 2021 holiday event.
6 / 10
A two-person team's espionage FPS split almost evenly between fans who compare it to Project IGI and critics who say its weapons don't hit as hard as its marketing promises — a complaint this review found the developer had already dated patches addressing within days.
6 / 10
A 2D top-down action roguelite from Vortical Studios, published by Caketown Interactive, casting players as a loadout-customizing defender of a solar system overrun by hostile aliens across both a structured Adventure campaign and a Roguelike mode, Very Positive across 75 English reviews for its synthwave soundtrack and weapon variety — with a specific, credible complaint that some players hit game-breaking crashes and softlocks that erased many hours of progress.
6 / 10
A genuinely inventive PvPvE ship-to-ship shooter from Mike Morhaime's post-Blizzard studio Dreamhaven, whose own review corpus keeps reaching for the same uncomfortable comparison — Evolve, the celebrated multiplayer game that died from bad monetisation and marketing rather than bad gameplay — to describe a declining playerbase several reviewers say is putting the whole game's survival at risk.
6 / 10
A River Raid-style vertical shoot-'em-up -- fly down a winding river, shoot boats and targets, and manage your fuel before you crash or run dry.
5.8 / 10
A budget third-person action RPG about a woman searching for her missing best friend with the help of a stolen quantum gauntlet, whose strong character customization and combat hooks sit next to a confusing, badly translated story and a rough, still-being-patched launch state.
5.7 / 10
An incremental bullet-hell where a pot-smashing frog hero grinds gear and abilities through chaotic biomes, launched with a grind so punishing it split opinion before a fast balance overhaul won a lot of players back.
5.7 / 10
A PS2-Era Licensed Game, On Purpose PATLABOR the Case Files wears its influences on its sleeve, and its influence is unmistakably the licensed anime tie-in action game of the early
5.6 / 10
