The best FPS games on PC

The fountain never runs dry of FPS love here at PC Gamer, not only because the PC is the best platform to play them on, but because it’s where they were born. Wolfenstein 3D and Doom established a framework for first-person combat that dominated the early ’90s and exploded into the next millennium as one of the most vibrant, constantly evolving spaces in our hobby. These days, the FPS is most closely associated with live-service multiplayer games, but an explosion in indie FPSes in recent years has resurrected the singleplayer campaign, and we’re seeing more co-op shooters crop up too.

It’s a genre known for its violence, yet that’s not always the reason we’re drawn to the FPS. We celebrate the immersive potential of the first-person camera, and how that point-of-view challenges our physical and emotional responses to problems thrown directly in our faces. They are often intense tests of reflex, but also foundations for engrossing worlds and realistic simulations of survival, battle, and play. We feel a closer, truer connection to games when we’re literally seeing it through our character’s eyes.