Best first person shooter games ever made

01

BioShock

Rapture sank two miles beneath the Atlantic — an entire Art Deco civilization of neon, jazz, and crumbling marble, built to prove Ayn Rand's objectivism and destroyed by its own logic before a single player arrives.

02

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

Developers photographed the actual Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to build every rusted corridor and overgrown courtyard — a ghost city recreated pixel by pixel, where a 30-kilometer real-world dead zone becomes a place of eerie, almost sacred stillness.

03

Doom (1993 video game)

By 1995, Doom ran on more machines than Windows 95 — spread across corporate networks and floppy disks, a game that became its own planetary infrastructure before the internet made that ordinary.

04

Titanfall 2

One level drops players into a factory mid-demolition, then hands them a device that rewinds time — walls rebuild, catwalks reappear, fire retreats — letting a player walk across a collapsing structure by running backward through its own destruction.

05

Superhot

Time moves only when you move — frozen bullets hang in mid-air, enemies crystallize mid-lunge — and the entire world becomes a puzzle of geometry and patience that collapses into pure elegant motion the moment you solve it.

06

Prey (2017 video game)

Every object aboard Talos I — coffee mugs, chairs, potted plants — could be a Mimic alien holding its shape until you step close. The station's 300+ rooms become a sustained meditation on trust, perception, and the architecture of dread.

07

Half-Life (video game)

Half-Life never cuts away — no cutscene interrupts, no loading screen breaks the eye — placing Gordon Freeman inside every moment of Black Mesa's collapse in 1998, a continuous unbroken world that made every prior shooter feel like a slide show.

08

Halo: Combat Evolved

The Halo Array — a ring 10,000 kilometers in diameter, built by an ancient civilization to starve a galactic parasite — introduced a battlefield so cosmically scaled that its grass and wind physics alone required a dedicated hardware chip on launch.

09

Receiver (video game)

Chambering a round, checking the cylinder, releasing the slide — every mechanical step of handling a pistol is mapped to a separate key. Receiver treats a handgun not as a prop but as a 47-part object demanding complete attention.

10

GoldenEye 007

Rare's 1997 Nintendo 64 cartridge shipped a four-player split-screen world that hadn't existed in any home console before it — the dam, the facility, the cradle — turning a Bond film into a geography that an entire generation memorized.