30 BEST First Person Shooters of All Time (2023 Edition)

Ever since the early 90s, the first-person shooter has continued to grow in popularity with each passing. A genre that was once limited to arena shooters now encompasses a diverse range of flavors including but not limited to post-apocalyptic RPGs, multiplayer shooters, narrative-driven linear thrill rides, and much more.

While there has never been a shortage of great first-person shooters, but only a few dozen games have remained with us after all these years.

With this feature, we will be running down 30 of the best first-person shooters of all time. We’ll be discussing how fun the game was when it released, how influential it was to the genre as a whole, and how well it stacks up to this date.

[heborres]

Quake? Doom? Wolfenstein 3D? Unreal Tournament?

[SteveThumbs]

The second I saw Resident Evil Village, I knew it was not a serious list

[MrDilkington]

Think whoever made this list just looked up FPS games on some Buzzfeed article and grabbed some random clips off Youtube lol

[dhookster]

Doom, Bioshock, Serious Sam. There are so many better games than some of these games you've mentioned!

[jamdc]

For me, the top5 five are Crysis, FarCry3, Halo1, Half Life 1 and 2

[wrena]

I feel like Doom Eternal very much needs to be included in this list.

[Shot.On.iPhone.]

How is Doom Eternal not on this list???

[TravisTravels]

My two games of memory were Golden Eye and Black. So I was happy to see those. But I’m shocked that Doom and Call of Duty didn’t make this list.

[JamesSmith-swnk]

A 1/3 of these games could be on "the worst FPS shooters of all time list".

[frozenfenix]

If you are making a GOAT FPS list up to 30, and any of these words are not uttered, you must rethink your list
(in rough order of importance)

Doom
Gaben (l4d, tf, hl, cs)
Halo
Call of Duty
Battlefield
Bioshock
Wolfenstein (ET, RTCW, new order, old blood)
goldeneye
Quake
Fear
Metro
Far Cry
Borderlands
Titanfall
overwatch
Destiny

[chrisbampton]

I would have added F.E.A.R, The Chronicle Of Riddick Escape From Butcher Bay, Black,
Blood, Unreal Tournament, Quake, Shadow warrior, Unreal, doom, Return to castle Wolfenstein, Kingpin life of crime, Serious Sam, painkiller, red faction, perfect dark

[kid_thegamer]

F.E.A.R. ? Doom? _not even in_ "The Top ? 😂

[GordonFreemanC]

Perfect Dark > Goldeneye 007, Black > Time splitters 2, RTCW > Wolfenstein 2, ... By the way, no Doom, Crysis, Quake 2, Medal of Honor PS1, this list is totally incomplete without those games!

[wailingfeller]

Did i miss call of duty and medal of honor ?

[retrorich]

The 90s have some of the best fps games ever made, half life, Return to castle Wolfenstein, perfect dark, goldeneye, soldier of fortune, elite force, doom, quake, avp, unreal, turok 1, 2 i can quite happily play these over and over again, i will always have the urge to play them they are ingrained into my dna.

[neurath]

No Doom? No Quake? Really? This video should be called 30 random FPS...

[mrbungle]

Found an old CD of FEAR and i love it playing it again for the first time since i was a kid

[Gthornby]

I think this should of been split into single player and multi player. Both will have their respective attractions. You can't compare the two types together. Tarkov being one of the most complex multi player games with bullet speed/drop/player load out etc of current times and comparing it to a single player campaign games, " point and shoot" like Doom or Duke nuke 'em 3d are worlds a part. I do agree some games are worlds a part but out dated now due to graphical ability at the time like Golden eye, but golden eye was mainly single player marketed (although had fun in multi player with friends) I personally feel the best games are ones yo can play over and over again but play certain scenarios differently to change the out come of the story/battle.

[datoxgaming]

Without Doom Eternal, any iteration of the Crysis or F.E.A.R. series, this list is not true to its name.

[mattonthemoon]

Duke Nukem 3D included but NOT Doom? Quake 1&2? Unreal? Are you serious?