The best shooter games like Far Cry 6 are Far Cry 5, Just Cause 3 and Metal Gear Solid V. Below are 9, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to shooter costs you.
Filtering to shooter means you want the guns to be the answer. It is the right filter when what you liked was the feedback — the sound, the recoil, the way enemies react.
What you get: Moment-to-moment feel, and the shortest distance between picking a game up and enjoying it.
What made Far Cry 6 worth playing in the first place is covered on the full list. This page is the shooter part of that answer, and only the shooter part.
The tightest of the modern entries and the best map in the series.
The same sandbox with the physics dialled far past sensible.
The best version of this loop by a distance — plan, infiltrate, improvise.
Outpost clearing with co-op and a much larger map.
Open-world survival where the traversal and the hordes carry it.
Outposts plus parkour, and the night changes everything.
If the planning-and-approach part is what you like.
Far Cry's structure with far better shooting.
For the same chaos with none of the seriousness.
Variety. Shooters commit hard to one loop, and the ones that try to be something else usually do the something else badly.
The full list is on games like Far Cry 6 — 9 picks, no genre filter.
Far Cry 5. The tightest of the modern entries and the best map in the series.
No. Far Cry 6 released on the PC & Modern Multi-Platform, but a recommendation is only useful if you can play it, so the picks above span platforms and eras. What they share is the genre and the reason.
How the guns sound and how enemies react to being hit. A shooter with mediocre levels and superb weapon feedback is more fun than the reverse, every time.
Each pick says. Several of the best shooters ever made are single-player campaigns, and a few of the co-op ones are genuinely worse with bots.
By hand. Each pick was written for the full Far Cry 6 list first, on what the game actually does, and this page is the part of that list that is shooter — never a genre tag lookup, which is how "best racing games like Super Mario 64" used to be a page on this site.
Or read the shooter guide for where to start in the genre generally.