🎮 Best Shooter Games of 2025-2026

Here you won't find numerical scores from press outlets or system requirements. What you'll find are the games people are actually playing right now, the ones being talked about in chat, and the ones worth knowing even if you're not a lifelong gamer. Some are from 2024, some from 2025, a couple are 2026 launches. All of them are worth your time.

11 games · Shooter

🔥 Best Shooter games

🔫 #1 9.4

Half-Life 2

Shooter · 2004

Twenty years on, its physics and environmental storytelling still teach lessons. City 17 was a turning point.

PC Xbox

🔫 #2 8.8

Counter-Strike 2

Shooter · 2023

The competitive shooter of all time, now on Source 2. Twenty years on, still about aim and nerves.

PC

🔫 #3 8.8

Helldivers 2

Shooter · 2024

Spreading democracy by gunfire with three friends, usually killing each other by accident. Friendly fire as an art form.

PS5 PC

🔫 #4 8.8

Deep Rock Galactic

Shooter · 2020

Four space dwarves mine destructible caves while bug hordes bite them. Four-player co-op with plenty of humor.

PC PS4 PS5 Xbox

🔫 #5 8.6

Valorant

Shooter · 2020

Riot fused Counter-Strike precision with hero abilities. A demanding tactical shooter where every bullet counts.

PC

🔫 #6 8.4

Marvel Rivals

Shooter · 2024

A hero shooter with the Marvel roster that ate late 2024. Spider-Man and Magneto in chaotic, fun 6v6.

PS5 Xbox Series PC

🔫 #7 8.4

Returnal

Shooter · 2021

A third-person action roguelike with oppressive atmosphere and gorgeous bullet hell. Dying and repeating was never this tense.

PS5 PC

🔫 #8 8.4

Remnant 2

Shooter · 2023

A co-op souls shooter with procedurally generated worlds and combinable archetypes. Chaotic, replayable and better with friends.

PS5 Xbox Series PC

🔫 #9 8.2

Splatoon 3

Shooter · 2022

An ink shooter where winning means painting more than shooting. Nintendo invented its own competitive scene, fresh as ever.

Switch

🔫 #10 8.0

The Finals

Shooter · 2023

A team shooter where the entire arena can be destroyed. Frantic, flashy and with a crystal-clear identity.

PS5 Xbox Series PC

🔫 #11 7.8

Overwatch 2

Shooter · 2022

Teams of heroes with wildly different abilities and unmistakable color. The hero shooter that marked a generation.

PS5 Xbox Series PC Switch