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394 Shooter games reviewed and scored, best first.
394 reviews
A retro pixel-art shooter whose sound design and lore fidelity draw ecstatic praise, set against a specific, achievement-verified finding — echoed by the game's own top-voted review — that only around one in ten buyers ever finishes it, corroborating a real structural complaint about locked-arena repetition and mapless backtracking.
7 / 10
A genuinely novel twin-stick roguelike that turns your actual desktop window into the shrinking arena you're fighting for, universally praised for a hook nobody else has attempted this well, undercut by real performance crashes and a shallow enemy roster once the initial novelty settles in.
7 / 10
MachineGames' 2014 reboot remains Very Positive across more than 61,000 Steam reviews a decade later, widely credited with successfully reviving a dormant franchise through genuinely strong gunplay and an unexpectedly earnest story — undercut for AMD graphics card owners by a severe, reproducible technical incompatibility this review can confirm has gone unresolved in the developer's own communications for well over a decade.
7 / 10
A Spectacle Fighter Wearing Its Influences Openly Crimson Dusk's Homura Hime doesn't hide where it comes from. Anyone who has spent time with Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, or N
6.9 / 10
A Retro-Styled Nightmare in Eastern Europe Iron Blight drops players into Prasnova, a rain-soaked Eastern Bloc town, trapped in a room while abominations claw at the door, tasked w
6.9 / 10
A One-Person Tribute to Armored Core, Built to Last Forever RIG Riot wears its inspiration on its sleeve, and its inspiration is Armored Core, specifically the faster, dash-heavy f
6.9 / 10
A Rhythm Game With No Lanes Most rhythm games ask you to hit notes as they scroll toward a fixed line. Asterika: Phantom Rose Refrain throws that structure out entirely. Instead of
6.8 / 10
Another bite-sized brawler from DOSMan Bloodmatch is DOSMan Games' latest boomer shooter, this time reskinned as a first-person gladiator arena: fight your way up from pit slav
6.8 / 10
A Stylish First-Person Platformer-Shooter With Big Influences CICADAMATA (rendered on its own store page with a trailing quotation mark, "CICADAMATA\"") is a fast-pa
6.8 / 10
A free first-person shooter that mixes slide-heavy 'boomer shooter' movement with potion-throwing combat in a weird, snowy village setting, winning over most reviewers with its movement feel and distinctive PSX-inspired art while drawing real, specific complaints about visibility, onboarding, and uneven level design.
6.8 / 10
Read review of Potion Knight Review: A Free, Fast-Sliding Boomer Shooter With Rough Edges
A tactical top-down PvPvE shooter blends 40-minute base-building sieges with mutant hordes and player raiders, and its small but enthusiastic early review pool suggests a promising launch — with the usual caveats of judging a multiplayer game this early.
6.8 / 10
Read review of Wasteland Outpost Review: An Early-Days PvPvE Shooter Winning Over Its First Players
Skydiving, finger-guns, and a lot of style "Aerial_Knight's DropShot" drops players from the sky as Smoke Wallace, a mercenary who fires bullets from his fingertips w
6.7 / 10
A third-person looter-shooter RPG that puts players in the seat of a customisable submersible shrimp mech, fighting Lovecraftian sea monsters solo or with up to six players, backed by genuinely inventive build variety and a strong sense of humour, but held back by a progression system that resets more than it should.
6.7 / 10
A gorgeous rubber-hose noir boomer shooter with career-best presentation, dragged down by shallow gunplay, thin detective mechanics, and a runtime that outlasts its ideas.
6.6 / 10
A stylish, fast-paced FPS roguelite from debut French studio Chaotic Games, blending Egyptian mythology with DOOM-style gunplay and Hades-style boons, whose genuinely excellent combat feel was overshadowed at launch by a specific, widely-shared complaint that the whole game can be finished in a single sitting, before two rapid post-launch difficulty updates began addressing it.
6.6 / 10
Thousands of Zombies, Seven Friends, and a Chopper That Isn't Coming Fast Enough ZedFall: Outbreak is a co-op twin-stick roguelite that asks a simple question: what happens if
6.6 / 10
4Spicchi is a free-to-play first-person horror shooter from GoldenShrimpsGames in which delivery girl Margherita defends her family pizzeria from food-alien invaders using a weapon that fires pizza ingredients, and this review's sample finds a scrappy, genuinely funny lean FPS undercut by thin ammo economy and a few rough technical edges the developer has been actively patching.
6.5 / 10
A Doom-inspired, five-weapons-at-once bullet-heaven autoshooter from solo developer Dark Jay Studio, built on a genuinely satisfying build-crafting combat loop and an unusually active, transparent Early Access patch cadence, though reviewers repeatedly flag its short, timed round structure and RNG-heavy build variance as the design's rougher edges.
6.5 / 10
A Space Cat Enters The Shmup Genre, Claws Out Astro Burn is a $9.99 cute-em-up shoot-em-up from small studio Beyond The Pixels, published by Pixel Doors, that landed in Steam Early
6.5 / 10
EA's biggest Battlefield launch in franchise history — 20 million units sold, record concurrent players, genuinely praised gunplay and an unusually stable launch — undercut by a widely repeated "bait and switch" narrative in which an acclaimed beta gave way to aggressive post-launch monetisation, and shadowed by a real, independently verified wave of layoffs across the studios that built it just months after that record-breaking success.
6.5 / 10
2K Marin's sequel returns players to Rapture a decade after the original, this time as a Big Daddy protector hunting for his lost Little Sister — reviewers overwhelmingly defend it against its unfair "unnecessary sequel" reputation, praising genuinely improved dual-wielding combat and the acclaimed Minerva's Den DLC, while a large, specific and heavily corroborated cluster of crash reports makes this one of the rougher PC ports reviewed in this lane.
6.5 / 10
A fast, combo-driven FPS blending gunplay, melee, and mobility from largely solo Chinese developer FYQD-Studio, Very Positive across nearly 4,800 reviews for genuinely stunning visuals and satisfying action — undercut by an extremely consistent complaint that the roughly two-hour campaign feels more like a proof-of-concept tech demo than a full-priced game, alongside a well-corroborated complaint about an incoherent story.
6.5 / 10
An Extraction Shooter Where Nobody Has a Gun Bunker Rats takes the extraction genre's core loop, drop into a dangerous complex, loot what you can, decide when to risk staying l
6.5 / 10
Mechano's debut on-rails shooter channels Sin & Punishment and Star Fox through a candy-coloured, low-poly lens built around four characters whose bullet patterns players must read on the fly, and a Positive review sample loves its charm and soundtrack while flagging real friction in its camera, difficulty curve, and medal-gated progression.
6.5 / 10
