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First-Person ShooterWindows PC

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

MachineGames' sequel brings B.J. Blazkowicz's fight against a Nazi-occupied America to Steam with genuinely praised gunplay and presentation, sitting Very Positive across nearly 50,000 reviews — undercut by a real, remarkably consistent "step down from The New Order" complaint about cutscene-heavy pacing and underdeveloped new characters, and by a specific, dateable technical incident this review can confirm: an August 2018 patch that broke previously-working video memory handling, which the developer then hotfixed within roughly five days.

6.5 / 10

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Tactical FPS, Realistic ShooterWindows PC

Bodycam

An Unreal Engine 5 tactical shooter built around a genuinely distinctive body-camera perspective, whose reputation was badly damaged by a November 2024 update that stripped out hard-earned cosmetic progress and replaced it with a cash shop — the single highest-voted review this library has found on any game, at nearly 4,000 votes.

6 / 10

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Looter ShooterWindows PC

Borderlands 4

A looter-shooter with genuinely well-regarded gunplay, undercut by severe, persistent PC performance problems and a real, extensively documented public-relations crisis in which Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford spent days publicly dismissing player complaints — telling PC gamers to "code your own engine" and that "premium games are made for premium gamers" — turning a technical problem into what press outlets have called "the great Pitchford Twitter crashout of 2025."

6 / 10

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Co-op ShooterWindows PC

FBC: Firebreak

A three-player co-op shooter set in Remedy's Control universe that launched thin on content at a premium price, improved substantially through a real year of post-launch updates, and was wound down in March 2026 anyway — a commercial disappointment whose timing coincided with the resignation of Remedy's CEO of nine years.

6 / 10

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Survival Horror, Action, FPSWindows PC

Fossilfuel 2

A cheesy, Resident Evil-and-Turok-inspired dinosaur survival horror shooter from a small studio that improved meaningfully on its predecessor, undercut at launch by a genuinely buggy save system and repetitive level design, with two years of ongoing patches since narrowing the gap.

6 / 10

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Incremental ActionWindows PCmacOS

Incremental Frog

A three-day-old solo-style release that grafts a genuine tech-tree-and-prestige incremental onto a real-time bug-catching shooter — aim a frog's tongue with the mouse, clear timed waves of insects, then spend the gold on a large branching upgrade grid — for NZ$6.29 with exactly one Steam review on record.

6 / 10

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Hero ShooterWindows PC

Marvel Rivals

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

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ActionWindows PC

Necromunda: Hired Gun

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

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ActionWindows PC

Rogue Point

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

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Action, Casual, IndieWindows PC

SENTO SURVIVOR : Slip, Grab, and Bathe in Glory!

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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Incremental ShooterWindows PCmacOSLinux

Time Clickers

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

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ActionWindows PC

UNSIGHT

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

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Party ShooterWindows PC

Capsule Carnage: Don't Press That

A 2-6 player party shooter built around a single dropped-from-the-sky button that hands out a jackpot or a map-flattening nuke, filed under "Massively Multiplayer" on Steam despite six-minute rounds, a hard cap of six players and, a day after launch, zero people playing it at the moment this was checked.

5.5 / 10

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ActionWindows PC

Catto Pew Pew!

A free-to-play physics shooter where armed cats launch each other off chaotic arenas — analysed across a 335-review English corpus, which surfaces a genuinely fun core concept alongside real, corroborated concerns about default-on voice chat and a young playerbase.

5.5 / 10

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ActionWindows PC

Ghosts of Tabor : LEGACY

A deliberately frozen 2024-era build of Combat Waffle Studios' own VR extraction shooter, sold as a separate paid product to players who wanted a beloved removed map back in the live game — a genuinely unusual business decision that a large share of its own buyers resent even while enjoying what it delivers.

5.5 / 10

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Tactical Extraction Shooter, Open-World Military SimulationWindows PC

Gray Zone Warfare

A hardcore open-world tactical extraction shooter with genuine "Ghost Recon meets Tarkov" ambition and a playerbase invested enough to log hundreds of hours each — reviewed here through a persistent, multiply-corroborated PvP cheating problem several reviewers say the developers actively suppress discussion of, alongside two years of genuinely frequent development.

5.5 / 10

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Action RPGWindows PC

Wanted: Dead

A janky, PS2-throwback sword-and-gunplay action game that split opinion at launch and has just weathered a fresh, verified controversy of its own — a retroactive, initially undisclosed swap to AI-adjusted store page art that the developer has since publicly disclosed and clarified doesn't touch the actual game.

5.5 / 10

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