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AMID EVIL
AMID EVIL is a retro shooter in the older fantasy-FPS tradition — magical weapons instead of guns, sprawling non-linear levels with secrets behind every wall, and a tone that takes itself just seriously enough to land its setpieces. Seven episodes each occupy a completely different setting, from floating crystalline cities to volcanic depths, with their own monster rosters. The weapons are the centerpiece. A staff that fires lightning, an axe that returns when thrown, a planetary mace that fires miniature solar systems — each one can be overcharged with souls collected from kills, briefly transforming into a far more devastating version of itself. The exchange between collecting and unleashing souls drives the moment-to-moment rhythm of every encounter. The producers behind DUSK and the creators of Return of the Triad shipped this one with the same DNA: brutal adaptive AI, a deep options menu including classic cheat codes, and Andrew Hulshult's score doing the heavy emotional lifting. Built in Unreal Engine 4 with ray tracing and DLSS 2.0 support on top, it's retro by design and modern under the hood.
DUSK
DUSK возвращает вас в мир, где мастерство бойни и кровопролития — ключ к выживанию до рассвета. Вдохновлённый такими легендами 90-х, как Doom, Quake, Blood, Heretic, Hexen, Half-Life и Redneck Rampage, DUSK предлагает бескомпромиссный ретро-экшен от начала до конца. Саундтрек от мастера метал-музыки Эндрю Халшулта дополняет атмосферу. В трёх уникальных эпизодах кампании, созданных вручную в стиле 90-х, игрокам предстоит пробиваться сквозь натиск мистических культистов из глубинки, одержимых военных и ещё более тёмных сил, пытаясь выяснить, что же скрывается под землёй. В вашем распоряжении огромный арсенал брутального оружия, включая серпы, мечи, арбалеты, винтовки, дробовики (в том числе двойные и двуствольные) и, конечно же, гранатомёты и ракетницы. Помимо основной кампании, DUSK включает режим бесконечного выживания, где вы столкнётесь с волнами безжалостных врагов, а также многопользовательский режим DUSKWorld Arena для сражений с друзьями.
MADNESS Project Nexus
MADNESS: Project Nexus — аркадный run'n'gun и битэмап от третьего лица с грубой, жестокой и ритмичной боёвкой. Стреляйте, режьте, бейте, рубите и уничтожайте врагов на протяжении больше чем 16 часов напряжённого экшена. Сюжетная кампания на 8 с лишним часов, проходимая в одиночку или в локальном кооперативе до четырёх геймпадов Xbox, ставит вас в шкуру антигероев вселенной Madness. Вы будете проникать на охраняемые объекты, выживать в тоннелях, кишащих культистами, сражаться с бандитами-каннибалами с динамитом и уворачиваться от бронированных Mag-агентов втрое выше вас ростом, раскрывая жуткие тайны проекта Nexus. Арена для одиночной игры ещё на 8 часов и с режимом New Game+ даёт собрать кастомного бойца с нуля, прокачивая его по разным специализациям, чтобы создать уникального воина Madness.
Vox Machinae
Vox Machinae straps you into a robot seven times taller than a T-Rex and lets you fight in it. Strong enough for a flat screen but BUILT for VR, the simulator's physics drives both movement and combat. Massive momentum can be unleashed on the ground or mid-air with jumpjets, and the cockpit operations support full motion controls (turn the ignition key, tilt the sticks, jam the throttle, honk the horn). The singleplayer campaign drops you into the Serus System as a Horizon Corporate Security pilot operating mining Grinders, until a hostile force interrupts the daily grind and you and your team have to defend the company's resources while uncovering what is really going on. No loot boxes, no microtransactions. Up to 16 players battle in cross-play multiplayer between PC VR (Rift, Vive, Mixed Reality) and standard screens. Game modes include Salvage (protect the Decker machine), Stockpile (control factories), and HoverBrawl (giant-robot soccer), playable with 2-4 teams. Seven Grinder chassis, devastating weapons, passive and active modules, and pilot-avatar customization round out the rig. Competent bots fill empty seats or train you offline.
Nova Drift
Nova Drift — космический шутер в духе rogue-lite, соединяющий классическую аркаду с элементами action-RPG и упором на build-crafting. Корабль эволюционирует, пока вы уничтожаете врагов, и каждый забег позволяет пройти весь путь от идеи сборки до её реализации за одну сессию. В основе — комбинации снаряжения корпуса, оружия и щита: термальное копьё, парные молекулярные мечи, телепортирующийся варп-щит, обжигающий ореол Halo, корпуса Carrier с роем конструктов, Leviathan, рубящий врагов телом-змеёй, или Firefly, выжигающий цели двигателями. Поверх — более 200 модульных улучшений и десятки супер-модов вроде Charged Mines, Dying Star, Singular Strike или Void Slice, полностью перекраивающих стиль боя. Есть несколько режимов: Endless, где можно бесконечно испытывать свою сборку после победы, Draft с готовыми билдами и Wild Metamorphosis — особенно требовательный rogue-like. По мере роста мастерства открываются модульные челленджи: больше риска — больше наград.
Quake Live
Quake Live is the multiplayer features-focused successor to Quake III Arena, developed by id Software in 2010. The competitive arena-FPS gameplay that defined a generation of online shooters returns at full speed, paired with persistent career stats and match history that the original lacked. Over 100 arenas span maps from id Software and the broader Quake community, supporting a wide rotation of layouts to learn and master. Career stats tracking and match history let you see exactly how you've improved (or not) over time, and the persistent player profile is one of the central differences between Quake Live and earlier id releases. 12+ game modes cover Free-for-All, Duel, Team Deathmatch, Clan Arena, Capture the Flag, Domination, and more. Connect and compete with friends and players from around the world in matches that, even today, remain among the fastest-paced shooters online.
Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition
Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition — классическое переиздание легендарного arena FPS от Epic Games и Digital Extremes, признанного игрой 1999 года и во многом задавшего жанр. Это именно та версия, которая окончательно оформила формулу быстрого, безжалостного фрагмеча в мультиплеере и на долгие годы стала эталоном киберспортивного шутера. В комплект входят все ключевые типы матчей серии: Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Domination и Assault. Режимы Novice и Hardcore задают диапазон сложности ботов от «только присел за компьютер» до «жду, когда ты ошибёшься». Отдельно упоминается enhanced Bot AI с близкой к профессиональной тактикой, dodge-прыжками и грамотным использованием карт. Отдельная сила UT — Ubrowser для поиска серверов, расширенные командные строки для админов, радио-чаттер, spectator-камеры, улучшенные HUD под каждый режим и классный mutator Jump Mode, удваивающий высоту прыжков. Всё вместе это делает GOTY Edition до сих пор актуальным примером школы arena FPS.
Devil Daggers
Devil Daggers strips arcade shooting down to a single arena, a single weapon, and a global leaderboard that the entire game is structured around. You stand on a small disc in a featureless void, summon waves of demonic enemies that get worse over time, and try to stay alive for as many seconds as possible. There is no level progression, no campaign, no boss; the score is the time you survived, accurate to fractions of a second. Movement is the heart of the design. The fluid system supports circle-strafing, bunny-hopping, dagger jumps and double jumps with speed boosts that experienced players chain through entire engagements without ever stopping. The magical daggers have two firing modes — a charged shot and a rapid-fire spray — and after harvesting enough demonic crystals from defeated enemies, they upgrade into homing variants that change the spatial calculus of every encounter. Thirteen enemy types each interact with the movement system in their own way, and the leaderboard replay system lets you watch the world's best runs (or your friends') and learn what they're doing differently. The custom engine commits hard to the 1990s software-rendered aesthetic: unfiltered textures, polygon jitter, HDR 3D positional audio with optional HRTF binaural support, procedural decals and a particle system capable of pushing hundreds of avoiding-flocking enemies at once.
Brotato
Brotato — это динамичный roguelite-экшен о выживании на враждебной планете. Космический корабль из Мира Картофеля потерпел крушение, и единственный выживший — Бротато, картофелина, способная мастерски обращаться сразу с шестью пушками. Вам предстоит пережить волны пришельцев, собирая материалы для прокачки и покупая безумные предметы в магазине между раундами. Огромный выбор персонажей — от магов до счастливчиков — и сотни видов оружия позволяют создавать неповторимые комбинации. Сессии длятся меньше 30 минут — идеально для быстрой порции адреналина.
Alien Shooter
Alien Shooter is the 2003 top-down arcade shooter from Russian developer Sigma Team that became the founding entry of a long-running series and one of the era's defining horde-shooter templates. The premise is straightforward: a military complex has been overrun by thousands of bloodthirsty alien creatures pouring through teleporters in its mysterious laboratories, and you've been deployed to clear the base at all costs before the invasion spreads. The game's signature scale is the headline feature. Each map contains around 1,000 monsters, with up to 100 visible on a single screen simultaneously, which gives the combat its distinctive intensity even by modern standards. You're given explosives to access the teleporter rooms where the monsters originate, stationary mini-gun turrets to help defend specific positions, and access to the most advanced weapons technology money can buy. Between missions, an arming area lets you equip additional weapons and biomechanical implants that boost your fighting abilities into superhuman territory. The content surface includes 10 missions across the campaign plus a separate survival mode, a male or female playable character, a character upgrade system, nine weapons of mass destruction, and a highly imaginative selection of enemies that ranges from small swarming insectoids to large kinetic threats. Useful gadgets — flashlights for navigating the complex's darker passages, medkits, battle drones — round out the toolkit. A reactive music system adjusts to the intensity of combat, and a red-or-green-blood toggle accommodates the various regional content sensitivities the game launched into.
Boomerang X
Boomerang X is built on a single tool used in three distinct ways. You throw the boomerang to attack; the boomerang freezes time briefly when you aim a new throw; and you can slingshot yourself directly to where the boomerang lands, preserving momentum and effectively flying through the arena. Stringing those three actions together is the entire combat vocabulary. The campaign descends through the ruined halls of an abandoned civilization, where swarms of dark creatures crawl from crevices, dive from treetops, and spray bile from every angle. Standing still ends a run instantly. The boomerang grants new powers as you accumulate stylish trick kills — additional projectiles, secondary effects, expanded mobility options. Dang!'s art direction sits closer to graphic novel than to AAA shooter — flat saturated colors, hard-edged silhouettes, a few key set pieces designed to be screenshotted. The Godpath descends through once-bustling locales sacrificed to hide an older myth, and the question of what lurks at the bottom carries the campaign through to its short, dense conclusion.
Gatekeeper
Gatekeeper sends you on a power-fantasy quest to reclaim the Heart of Time, stolen by Chaos's most powerful minions. Follow its trail, reach the Throne Room, and face Chaos directly, but first you'll defeat the elite Sirens and the endless legions under their command across the path to the showdown. Nine playable Gatekeepers cover distinct skills and playstyles. Each one's potential unlocks fully through experience earned over multiple runs, and abilities combine with powerful artifact effects in endless combinations. 100+ collectible artifacts produce game-changing effects, and combining them into Triads scales your combat power throughout each run. Five distinct planets host the campaign, each packed with diverse enemies and powerful bosses. Locations include one of four mission types as their objective, with completion summoning a Siren for an epic battle. Solo play and 4-player co-op both work seamlessly: invite friends to share the power fantasy or run the gauntlet alone.
Nordic Ashes Survivors of Ragnarok
Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok is a Norse-themed roguelite survivor where you fend off hordes of mythological creatures after Ragnarok. Yggdrasil, the Tree of Life, has lost almost all of its energy sustaining the Nine Realms, and only a few heroes survive the End of the World. You play one of them, defending the remains. The character roster covers 10+ playable heroes including Axeldör (Viking warrior), Thyra (fierce ranger) and Hafgrim (master of the elements), each with exclusive skills and weapons. Constellation Ability Trees handle in-run progression, with character-specific stat trees that shape build directions. Yggdrasil serves as the meta-progress tree, boosting features across runs. Nine maps span Norse mythology's realms, each with distinct enemies and environmental themes. Five game modes include Adventure, Ragnarok, Daily Challenge, Custom and Nightmare. 150+ relics with ascension upgrades feed long-term build expansion. Elites and bosses carry their own AI behaviors, reward shrines offer in-run quests, and character masteries push heroes to their maximum potential. Twitch integration adds streamer interactivity, and 150+ achievements anchor completionist play.
Murder Miners
Murder Miners was the #1 rated Xbox Live Indie Game, brought to PC with weekly community playdates still active. The core gameplay is Halo-inspired with a 3-shot-kill pistol, wall-jumping, unlimited sprint, multi-directional dashing, and alt-fire modes. Spawn-with-weapons or pickup-only options accommodate both modern loadout play and classic arena shooter style. The unique Infection mode starts one player as a zombie tasked with infecting all others. Humans use the Minergun to build forts; zombies dig through walls and use a tentacle grab to reach high places or pull players in. The signature mechanic is feasting on player corpses to level up your zombie. Up to 30 players can join a single match, and the developers' weekly JForce playdate typically fills the full lobby for intense last-man-standing rounds. Online co-op map making with completely destructible maps means the Minergun handles fort defense and level creation alike. Almost every popular map you can think of has been remade by the community and shared via Steam Workshop. A sequel, Murder Miners X, is in development.
Disfigure
Disfigure — это напряженный шутер с видом сверху, в котором механика света играет ключевую роль. Вы оказываетесь на арене, поглощенной кромешной тьмой, и должны отбиваться от полчищ гротескных существ. Проблема в том, что вы видите врагов только тогда, когда они попадают в луч вашего фонаря. Выбирайте между узким, но дальним лучом для концентрации урона или широким светом, чтобы контролировать слепые зоны. По мере выживания вы будете получать десятки улучшений и перков, создавая мощные билды и синергии в лучших традициях жанра bullet heaven. Гнетущая атмосфера, динамичный геймплей и постоянное чувство паранойи от того, что скрывается во мраке, делают эту игру отличным испытанием для ваших рефлексов.
Fashion Police Squad
Fashion Police Squad is a humorous retro FPS where you fight fashion crime using attire-enhancing weaponry. Calling all officers: there's a fashion crime in progress, and Sergeant Des is mobilizing all squad members. Grab your Belt of Justice and Tailormade Sewing Machine, and dispense some Fashion Justice. The core mechanic is matching weapon to crime. Each fashion crime has a fashion solution, and you'll need to choose between weapons carefully to fix each faux pas. Some enemies need a splash of color, others need all their seams taken in. Picking the wrong weapon does nothing, so identifying what each crime actually requires is the moment-to-moment puzzle layered over the shooting. The weapons arsenal includes specialized fashion gear, including weaponized Sock Gnomes. Jump, climb, and swing through Trendopolis to uncover its secrets, take on biggest baddest bosses in the fashion industry, and solve the mystery of the resurgence of fashion crime to take out the villains at the top.
Unreal Tournament 3
Unreal Tournament 3 marks the return of the world's premier first-person shooter, unleashing the full power of Unreal Engine 3 to take graphics, gameplay and challenge to a new level. You engage in intense battles against other human players online or against industry-standard Unreal AI, wielding the most powerful futuristic weapons and vehicles for FPS action at its best. This release includes the free Titan Pack expansion, which adds a substantial amount of content and enhanced features. The Titan Pack brings 16 new environments across Warfare, vCTF, Deathmatch and CTF, three bonus-pack maps, and the namesake Titan mutator that lets players overwhelm opponents as a 15-foot titan or crush them as a 30-foot Behemoth. It also adds the Greed and Betrayal gametypes, powerful new weapons like the Stinger Turret and Eradicator Cannon, valuable deployables, the Slow Field power-up, the Stealthbender vehicle, and two new characters, Nova and Kana. Sweeping enhancements include better AI, improved networking performance and UI usability, expanded mod support, 57 Steam Achievements, client-side demo recording, a much-improved Server Browser, and mid-game mutator and gametype voting.
Bing in Wonderland
Bing in Wonderland is a roguelite in the Wanba Warriors franchise that strips out exploration and dumps everything into combat density. The game's promise — monster-killing satisfaction galore, no map-poking required — is delivered through a steady cascade of exotic enemies, varied stages, and a deep enough pool of boons, weapons and items to keep build experimentation interesting across many runs. Plus pancakes, fish and abundant pointless details, which the studio is openly proud of. The weapon roster covers bow, spear, cannon, axe and harp, each with its own movement and rhythm, and combat is built around a Butt Slam mechanic that puts the protagonist's lower half front and centre as a primary weapon. Stages mix waves of enemies that fight in distinct ways — thunder shooters, thunder-poop shooters, melee swarms, ranged harassers — and the build interactions you assemble from the deep boon-and-item pool decide whether a given fight is a victory lap or a humiliating reset. The presentation is intentionally abstract. The studio's preferred art descriptor is "vague and abstract enough to put Picasso to shame," which lands somewhere between charm and visual chaos depending on how you receive it. Controller support is solid, post-launch updates have layered on additional levels and weapon DLCs, and the developers are openly building the game with community feedback through their Discord. Whether the game's many small jokes connect for you is most of what determines how much you enjoy the time spent in it.
GOAT OF DUTY
GOAT OF DUTY is a fast-paced multiplayer first-person shooter, and the premise is exactly what it sounds like: you are an armed goat fighting other armed goats. The game keeps things deliberately simple, with no convoluted metagame, no different characters to master and no skill combos, just devilish combat arenas, powerful weapons and fast, intense action, plus a heavy dose of silly humor. Goats make for nimble fighters: they are fast, can climb almost anything and jump very high, giving the deathmatches an old-school, no-nonsense feel of you and your skills against everyone else. Matches support 2 to 10 players across four modes, namely classic free-for-all, Gun Deathmatch, the team-based Herd Wars, and the chaotic Fus Ro Arena. Between fights, crazy goatstumes, goat dances and goat mechanics give you every opportunity to troll your friends when you bleat them in combat. A variety of maps push different playstyles, from a futuristic farm and distant-planet mountains to a desert, a horror well, a space station and a medieval village.
Prodeus
Prodeus is a first-person shooter built deliberately in the lineage of 1990s arena shooters — Doom, Quake, the era of fast movement, no regenerating health, and overpowered weapons — and reimagined using modern rendering technology. The visuals combine modern 3D techniques with retro pixel aesthetics, producing a look that reads as classic in motion while running on contemporary hardware specs. The campaign is hand-crafted by industry FPS veterans and runs across levels designed for nonstop action. Steel yourself for fast and frantic combat, the marketing promises, and the moment-to-moment design lives up to the line. Hordes of chaos-spawned creatures come at you constantly. The arsenal is the genre's classic over-the-top assortment — shotguns, rocket launchers, plasma weapons, all dialed up to demand aggressive movement and tight aim. The gore system is the visual signature. A delightfully demented dismemberment system lets you splatter the walls and alien halls with the blood of your enemies in ways the elder shooters could only suggest. The pixel-based gore is intentionally exaggerated, the impacts are loud, and the dynamic soundtrack by Andrew Hulshult shifts gears to accompany the combat intensity. Frag to the music — the dynamic score literally adjusts to what you're doing. Multiplayer is a substantial part of the package. The campaign supports four-player co-op, and competitive modes include 16-player Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, CTF and more, with the ability to create and share custom game modes. The built-in level editor is genuinely powerful, and the community map browser is integrated directly — instantaneous action with nearly limitless levels to play, with new community content appearing constantly. Prodeus is the boomer-shooter the genre's revival was waiting for, executed with care from every angle.
About Arena Shooter
Arena Shooter — поджанр шутеров от первого лица, в основе которого лежит замкнутая арена и быстрые многопользовательские бои. Жанр заложен Quake в 1996-м и Unreal Tournament в 1999-м, и десятилетиями держался как доминантная форма онлайн-шутера до прихода Counter-Strike, Call of Duty и battle royale.
В арена-шутере карта строится как <b>полигон, не как уровень</b>: симметричное или почти симметричное пространство, где нет «верной» стороны, и победа определяется чистой механикой стрельбы. Отсюда вырастает движение: bunny-hop, rocket-jump, strafe-jumping — всё ради скорости, потому что скорость даёт преимущество. Поверх работает оружие как контроль зон — Lightning Gun на ближней дистанции, Rail на дальней, Rocket для манёвров вокруг угла. Третий слой — пик-управление: респаун брони и аптечек по таймеру, и опытный игрок держит в голове весь тайминг-цикл арены. Из этих трёх вещей рождается арена-шутер как чистая дисциплина в духе тенниса или фехтования.
Quake Live от id Software — самая чистая инкарнация классики: бесплатная браузерная Quake III с матчмейкингом и десятками стандартных арен. Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition и Unreal Tournament 3 — другая великая ветвь жанра от Epic, с акцентом на флешкеты и хэдшоты. AMID EVIL и DUSK — современные boomer-shooter возвращения к стилю 90-х: ретро-графика, ураганный темп и оружие из той же эпохи. Devil Daggers сжимает арену до одной круглой комнаты и доводит формулу до соревнования за одну точку — длительность жизни на таблице мирового рекорда. Boomerang X — альтернативный взгляд: вместо стволов герой кидает бумеранг с гасящим таймингом возврата. Vox Machinae выводит арена-шутер в VR в виде двухметровых боевых мехов с физикой инерции в кокпите.
Прямой родственник arena shooter — FPS как родительский жанр: оба разделяют перспективу от первого лица и стрельбу с прицелом, но классический FPS ориентирован на сюжетные кампании и более медленный темп. Boomer Shooter — современная инди-ветка, прямо вышедшая из арена-шутеров 90-х и возрождающая старую школу левел-дизайна и движения.