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137 Shooter games reviewed and scored, best first.

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Masked Forces: Zombie Survival

A NZ$7.45 wave shooter spun off from Nightbinder's budget Masked Forces series, swapping the franchise's PvP arenas for zombie hordes. The core shooting loop still works nine years on, but Steam's own player-count API returns zero, so the PvP and co-op the store page advertises exist mostly on paper.

5.2 / 10

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DUCKSIDE

A genuinely fun DayZ-and-Rust-but-you're-a-duck survival shooter that veteran genre players praised for its fast, rewarding early loop, undone across two years by cheating that never went away, a controversial kernel-level anti-cheat rollout, and a development pace that Steam's own patch history confirms has gone quiet since mid-2025.

5 / 10

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Hell Let Loose: Vietnam

A genuinely ambitious 50v50 jungle-warfare expansion of the Hell Let Loose formula — tunnels, helicopters, patrol boats and 17 battlefield roles — undercut by a launch several reviewers call "extremely early access," a crossplay aim-assist complaint that dominates the negative reviews, and a NZ$61.99 price competing with cheaper, better-established Vietnam shooters.

5 / 10

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Marauders

A WWII-flavoured, zero-gravity spin on Escape from Tarkov that launched with real promise in 2022, then spent four years wearing down that goodwill through persistent cheating, contested bans, and — as of an April 2026 developer post apologising for "the silence" — a 20-month content drought.

5 / 10

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Wolfenstein: Youngblood

A co-op spinoff whose launch-era complaint — unwanted RPG and looter-shooter systems grafted onto a beloved franchise — never really faded, and whose recent sentiment has fallen further still for a distinct, structural reason this review independently confirmed: the free Buddy Pass trial that let a friend join your co-op game at no cost has been delisted from Steam.

5 / 10

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Mercenaries of the Kingdom: First Blood

A genuinely inventive bullet-hell crossed with party-based mercenary management, backed by an enthusiastic Early Access community, whose developer went quiet after a July 2024 update and left recent reviewers describing a stale, sometimes broken game with no meta-progression to soften its brutal difficulty spikes.

4.5 / 10

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Redfall

A notorious launch disaster from Arkane Austin — broken performance, an empty open world and weak AI drove a lifetime score that never recovered — but a genuine, well-documented arc followed: Microsoft closed the studio in May 2024, shipped a "parting gift" final patch as it did, and recent sentiment has risen meaningfully as the price dropped and expectations reset, even as a new complaint emerges that the game is now effectively unsupported.

4.5 / 10

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最后的仙门 The last Practice Sect

A Xianxia-flavoured hybrid of tower defense and bullet-hell idle combat, sold on Steam with a promise of thirteen fully-voiced languages that its own small English review sample says never actually arrived, from a developer whose visible support stopped within a month of launch.

4.5 / 10

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ALPARGUN

A solo-developed first-person military shooter built in Unreal Engine 5 around a six-environment campaign and an AI-supported squad, launched 5 August 2026 with two Turkish- language user reviews, zero Steam achievements and a documented mission that its own first buyer could not finish.

4 / 10

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S.T.O.R.M.

A straight re-release of a 1996 DOS submarine shoot 'em up, brought to Steam thirty years later by Piko Interactive and Bleem.net with no achievements, no controller support and no documented changes beyond running on modern Windows. The original earned mediocre reviews on release; nothing here suggests that verdict needs revisiting.

4 / 10

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Trickster VR: Co-op Dungeon Crawler

A procedurally generated VR orc-slaying co-op crawler with real fans and a fun weapon feel when it works — undermined by locomotion and hit-detection complaints that recur, unchanged, across seven years of reviews, and a controller-support gap that's never been patched for hardware that became mainstream after the developer stopped updating it.

4 / 10

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The Left Behind

A post-apocalyptic survival game set in a hand-built Dutch landscape, sold as a finished product at full price, with no save function in single-player. Quit, crash or lose connection and the run is gone. Everything else wrong with it is downstream of decisions like that one.

3.5 / 10

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Colonies of The Remnant

A post-apocalyptic colony-survival shooter whose Early Access launch drew one of the most lopsided negative receptions this library has documented — and a same-day developer admission, unusually honest for how bad the reviews were, that quick fixes won't be enough.

3 / 10

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