Best Shooter Games on the PC

Shooter Games are one of the things the PC & Modern Multi-Platform is genuinely for. The ones worth playing start with Fortnite, Far Cry 6, Fallout 4.

The PC and Shooter Games

Not a console, and that is the point: no generation boundary, no exclusivity, and a back catalogue that goes back forty years and never stops working.

This is one of its strengths. Strategy, simulation and indies — the three genres that have essentially always lived here — plus mods, which turn several of the games below into different games entirely.

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.

The Shooter Games Worth Playing

  1. 1. Fortnite

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  2. 2. Far Cry 6

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  3. 3. Fallout 4

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  4. 4. Destiny 2

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  5. 5. Call of Duty Modern Warfare

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  6. 6. Arc Raiders

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  7. 7. Escape from Tarkov

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  8. 8. Just Cause 3

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  9. 9. Just Cause 4

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  10. 10. Immortals of Aveum

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  11. 11. Enlisted

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  12. 12. Arma 3

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  13. 13. Deus Ex

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  14. 14. Broforce

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What Makes a Good Shooter Game

Moment-to-moment feel, and the shortest distance between picking a game up and enjoying it.

Variety. Shooters commit hard to one loop, and the ones that try to be something else usually do the something else badly.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best shooter game on the PC?

Fortnite is the usual first answer, and there are 14 in the library we cover.

Was the PC good at shooter games?

Yes — it is one of the things the machine is known for, and there are 14 in the library we cover.

What makes a shooter feel good?

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.

Do these need to be played online?

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.

How is this list put together?

From the games this site covers on the PC & Modern Multi-Platform, matched against hand-mapped gameplay categories rather than a storefront's genre tag. A page only exists where there are at least four, which is why some console and genre combinations have no page at all.

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