Over the last decade, AAA developers have basically stopped releasing FPS games except for established franchises like DOOM and Call of Duty. If you mostly focus on that side of things, you would be forgiven for believing the genre is on its deathbed... rather than in the middle of a new golden era. Smaller and indie developers have taken up the shooter mantle, and they just refuse to stop releasing great games!
Every year, we get a few brilliant FPS games that either push the genre forward or serve as loving tributes to the past, but you need to be tapped into this part of the industry to really notice any of these masterpieces. Occasionally, something like Trepang2 might slip into the mainstream, but that is the exception and not the rule.
Anybody really into FPS games will probably recognize some of these titles, but they are quite obscure, even more so than stuff like Turbo Overkill and Echo Point Nova. Hopefully, you find something new to enjoy.
The accomplishments of solo devs never cease to amaze me.
Famously, Bright Memory: Infinite was largely developed by a single person, and that's one of the more exciting shooters of the early 2020s. Honestly, ADACA deserves to stand alongside Bright Memory as a showcase of the heights a single person can reach, though it offers a very different experience. Combining a Half-Life 2 campaign with an extra sandbox mode, this project comes with an absurd amount of content, and you can sample a lot of it in the demo.
Split into three episodes that each last a couple of hours, the campaign mode drops you on a mysterious alien planet filled with military factions, security units, and mutant-esque creatures. With no cutscenes, ADACA relies on environmental storytelling and exploration to set the stage, along with some pretty impressive set-pieces. Along with plenty of guns, the combat revolves around an always-equipped gravity gun, which opens up many possibilities for manipulating enemies and the environment.
Is that not enough? Well, how about an open-world mode that acts more like a survival game? Well, ADACA also comes with Zone Patrol, and you can easily drop more hours in this mode than the campaign.
Technically, Boomerang X isn't an FPS game because it contains exactly 0 guns, with the eponymous weapon representing your entire arsenal. However, that's really just being pedantic, and this first-person thrower very much fits the modern shooter genre. DANG built an entire campaign around an unconventional weapon, offering 5 hours of consistently brilliant action with no fluff.
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