The best FPS games to play in 2024

The best first-person shooter games you can play right now

When you’re in the mood to safely play with some weapons with friends, FPS games are the place to do it, and these are the best FPS games you can play in 2024. Whether you want to go in and play with a team of your friends, or you’re looking for a deep campaign experience to put your skills to the test, we have the game for you in this list.

All of these games are standouts in their genre, with refined shooting mechanics in all of them, and slick movement mechanics in many. Realistic shooters, military sims, old-school blasters, we have them all. If you want a new shooter to play this year, you need to play the FPS games in our list below.

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Halo: Infinite

Halo: Infinite's multiplayer is amazing / 343 Industries, Microsoft

Halo defined a generation of online shooters, and Halo: Infinite proudly carries that torch forward into the new generation. If you’re a true old-school Halo fan, you could always play The Master Chief Collection, but for the future of Halo, you have to look to Infinite. Infinite’s multiplayer is entirely free-to-play, making it more accessible than ever, and it plays brilliantly. For that classic feeling of blasting a shotgun and finishing the job with a melee attack, Halo: Infinite is the perfect choice.

Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0

Warzone is still one of the best hardcore battle royale games / Activision Blizzard, Microsoft

Warzone 2.0 has now replaced the original Warzone, and some key changes have been made. Loadout drops are harder to acquire, NPCs can now be found in the battle royale mode, you must find three-plate armor vests, and snipers aren't going to deliver you the instant-kill headshots you want. But Warzone 2 is an interesting battle royale, one that's much more welcoming for new players, and well worth playing at the low-low price of free.

Fortnite

Fortnite is now... everything / Epic Games

Forget what you’ve heard, because Fortnite is a different game now. While it may enter your awareness thanks to absurd crossovers being shared on social media, there’s actually a pretty decent shooter underneath all of that. While it’s not strictly an FPS, Fortnite’s shooter gameplay is still some of the very best you can enjoy on any platform, and the new modes that have been added since launch elevate this to one of the best shooters you can pick up and play today. Lego Fortnite, anyone?

Apex Legends

Still the best battle royale / Respawn Entertainment

Yet another large-scale battle royale game, Apex Legends combines the Hero Shooter abilities of a game like Overwatch with the huge maps of Call of Duty: Warzone and the weapons of Titanfall 2 to make a masterpiece. Apex Legends’ cast of characters have become beloved and iconic, with distinctive silhouettes and quips as they move around the massive maps. Some fun movement mechanics and razor-sharp shooting make this one of the best games for both casual shooter fans and hardcore competitors.

Overwatch 2

Still going / Activision Blizzard, Microsoft

Overwatch 2 has finally launched and it’s a shooter you’ll have a really good time with. There are plenty of good reasons to criticize Overwatch 2, but the 5v5 team composition has finally shattered the two-tank meta, making games move much faster, with the ability to be more aggressive throughout. It’s a smart move, and Overwatch 2 is free-to-play, meaning everyone can download it and get started right now.

Hunt: Showdown

A wholly unique battle royale experience / Crytek

This PVP-PVE battle royale hybrid is one of the most unique shooters on this list, as real players aren’t actually your targets, they’re just obstacles. The real aim is to hunt, kill, and retrieve loot from dangerous monsters which usually haunt dark buildings. You must take the loot, and bring it back to an extraction point. But other teams of players will be doing the exact same thing, and there isn’t enough loot to share. You will, inevitably, have to fight other players in order to survive and escape, and that’s much easier said than done with some fairly old firearms.

PUBG: Battlegrounds

The battle royale originator / PUBG Corporation, Krafton, Tencent

The battle royale game that really popularised the genre, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds – now simply referred to as PUBG – gives players huge maps to play on, realistic weapons, attachments, and shooting physics. It’s not the smoothest shooter, with some slow animations that’ll feel awkward to anyone trained on Call of Duty, but the satisfaction you get from a perfectly executed siege on an enemy team is unparalleled.

Valorant

The only shooter to rival Counter-Strike / Riot Games

Valorant is another Hero Shooter, but instead of being in the arcade-y camp, it’s one of the sharpest and most competitive shooters you can play. You’ll need excellent mouse skills in order to tap those headshots in Valorant, but even if you’re not at a competitive level, you can still have fun playing with the cast’s abilities and unloading a full clip at anyone that walks past.

Counter-Strike 2

The premium competitive shooter / Valve

CSGO has finally been usurped and now we have CS2, a full Counter-Strike sequel which is, actually, pretty familiar to CSGO fans. Well hey, you don't want things to change too much, do you? CS2 is a showpiece for Valve's new Source 2 game engine, and is hopefully just the beginning of Valve's Source 2 game output.

Doom: Eternal

One of the best single-player shooters / id Software, Bethesda, Microsoft

Doom: Eternal does have a multiplayer mode, sure, but it the campaign is where the game truly comes to life. The Doom Guy has been given a bigger set of traversal tools than ever, shifting around in the air with dodges, double jumps, wall climbs, and much more. That’s already incredibly satisfying, but doesn’t even begin to mention the incredible array of weapons you use to blast demons in order to send them back to hell. Shooter perfection.

Titanfall 2

Still incredible :: EA / Respawn Entertainment

We may already have Apex Legends in the list, but this can't be ignored. Unfortunately modern-day Titanfall 2 multiplayer is plagued with hackers on PC, but it's still one of the slickest and most exciting shooters that you can play. Even if you ignore the multiplayer mode entirely, the campaign has some of the best shooter level design from the last generation of FPS games. Not to be ignored under any circumstances.

Metroid Prime Remastered

One of the all-time greats / Nintendo

It's not a high-octane multiplayer game, nor is it a fast-paced shooter. Instead, Metroid Prime is more of a slow-paced exploration game, and is still one of the most atmospheric FPS games you can possibly play, even 20 years after its original launch. This is a truly unique and wonderful game, and is essential to play for Nintendo Switch owners.

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From this pic alone you know it's going to be different / Veddge, via DoomWiki

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