Best FPS 2025: the 5 must-have shooters to launch now

2025 has been a particularly generous hunting season for FPS fans. Big multiplayer releases, supercharged single-player shooters, niche experiences that make you suffer with a smile: the pack has been well fed. Here are five games to have on your radar, or already in your library.

🪓 5 Killing Floor 3

🏢 Studio	Tripwire Interactive
🖥️ Platforms	PC, PS5, Xbox Series X\|S
📅 Output	24 July 2025

Sixteen years after the first episode, Tripwire is finally releasing the sequel to its cult horde shooter. The principle remains the same: six players, waves of increasingly aggressive Zeds, and blood everywhere. This time set in 2091, in a cyberpunk universe where the Horzine megacorporation has unleashed its army of bioengineered monsters on humanity.

Co-operative mode is clearly the title's playground. With a close-knit team, wave battles are frenetic, gory and downright exhilarating. Zed Time, the series' signature slow-motion feature, is always on hand to turn the best sequences into slow-motion decapitation orgies.

✅ Positive points

🎮 Immediately accessible and fun co-op gameplay
💀 Generous gore, satisfying gunfeel on big guns
🐌 Zed Time remains a unique and jubilant signature
🔧 Weapon mod system with some good ideas
🌐 Cross-play PC / consoles

❌ Negative points

😴 Progression too grind-heavy, repetitive in the long run
📦 Launch content a little sparse for a full release
🐛 Performance issues and bugs at launch
🐺 Unplayable solo: really made to be played in a group
💸 Avoid at full price, wait for a special offer

🎯 For you if : you're looking for a fun co-op FPS to take your group out on a Friday night.

4 Escape from Tarkov 1.0

🏢 Studio	Battlestate Games
🖥️ Platforms	PC only
📅 Output	15 November 2025

After almost a decade of early access, Tarkov officially reached version 1.0 in November 2025, launching on Steam. The promise kept, at last: you can now truly escape from Tarkov, thanks to a narrative campaign that finally gives a context to all that violence.

Tarkov remains what it has always been: the most brutal and demanding extraction shooter on the market. You arrive in a combat zone with your gear, loot, outmanoeuvre players and bots, and extract. If you die, you lose everything. Inventory management is a science, weapon customisation is insane, and the tension of a successful raid is incomparable.

✅ Positive points

🔫 The most intense and satisfying gunfights on the market
🛠️ Weapon customisation taken to the extreme
📖 Narrative campaign finally present with 1.0
🗺️ New Terminal map and new content
🤝 PvE mode available for those who shun human players

❌ Negative points

🐛 Turbulent 1.0 launch: bugs, unstable servers, mixed Steam reviews
📈 Steep learning curve, almost hostile to newcomers
😤 Persistent cheating problems
🖥️ PC exclusive, no console version planned
⏱️ Inventory management can rival real game time

🎯 For you if : you want the most demanding and satisfying FPS experience on the market, on PC.

🚀 3. The Outer Worlds 2

🏢 Studio	Obsidian Entertainment
🖥️ Platforms	PC, Xbox Series X\|S, PS5
📅 Output	29 October 2025

With this second episode, Obsidian confirms everything we'd hoped for: a generous, well-written FPS-RPG with a delightful anti-corporatist cynicism. You play an Earth Directorate agent sent to the Arcadia system, a space colony where three factions are vying for power while a series of space-time rifts threaten to engulf everything.

RPG progression is at the heart of the experience. Your dialogue choices influence the story, your build determines how you approach combat, and Obsidian's biting humour keeps you smiling throughout the 30-hour main campaign. The universe has grown in density, depth and character compared to the first opus.

We haven't played it ourselves, but the press is solid (85-90 on Metacritic) and the player feedback on Steam is generally positive. If you're a fan of Fallout: New Vegas or the first Outer Worlds, this should be right up your street.

✅ Positive points

✍️ Biting writing, anti-corporate humour at its best
🌍 A denser, more inhabited universe than the first opus
🎭 Choice system with real consequences for the story
⏱️ Approximately 30 hours of main campaign, plus all ancillary content
🔫 Varied gunplay with plenty of build options

❌ Negative points

🐛 Some bugs and erratic AI behaviour reported
📉 Main ending a bit flat according to several critics
🎵 Discreet soundtrack, quickly forgotten
🔁 Some side quests lack substance

🎯 For you if : you want a single-player adventure rich in choice, writing and varied gunplay.

⚔️ 2. Doom: The Dark Ages

🏢 Studio	id Software
🖥️ Platforms	PC, PS5, Xbox Series X\|S
📅 Output	15 May 2025

id Software has reinvented Doom once again, this time from an unexpected angle: the futuristic Middle Ages. Gone is the Doom Slayer fighter plane of Doom Eternal. Here, you're a tank. Slower, heavier, terribly powerful.

The major new feature is the saw-shield. You block, you parry, you throw it like a frisbee of death at your enemies, you dismantle their armour before finishing the job with the flail. Battles require more tactical reading, with a parry system naturally integrated into the DNA of the franchise. The arenas are more open, and two types of sequences add variety to the mix: missions in giant mechs and aerial passages on armoured dragons.

✅ Positive points

🛡️ The saw shield: an excellent mechanical innovation
💪 A feeling of absolute power, you're literally a tank
🎨 Sumptuous artistic direction and visuals
🗺️ More open levels with secrets and upgrades to find
🤖 Mech and dragon sequences that break up the pace nicely
⏱️ Solid campaign of around 15 hours

❌ Negative points

🎵 Soundtrack a step down from Doom Eternal (big pair of shoes to fill after Mick Gordon)
🐢 Slower pace may confuse fans of Doom Eternal
📖 A story with a rather generic scenario
💰 High price for the lifespan (around €80 without Game Pass)

🎯 For you if : you want an intense, brutal and beautifully designed single-player FPS.

💥 1. Battlefield 6

🏢 Studio	Battlefield Studios / DICE
🖥️ Platforms	PC, PS5, Xbox Series X\|S
📅 Output	10 October 2025

The biggest launch in the franchise's history according to EA, and for once, the hyperbole is deserved. Battlefield 6 is the return to basics we've been waiting for since Battlefield 4: defined classes, maps that support tanks, helicopters and planes, massive destruction and team-based gameplay.

64 players, maps that oscillate between tight urban areas and open terrain for heavy vehicles, the four canonical classes (Assault, Support, Engineer, Recon), and a Portal mode featuring an open-source editor based on Godot. The community can recreate its own modes and maps, and Battle Royale is already in the pipeline for future seasons.

✅ Positive points

🔫 The best gunplay in the franchise, fluid and impactful
👥 Team gameplay at its best: all four classes are essential and complementary
💣 Massive destruction, organised chaos, epic moments guaranteed
🛠️ Portal mode with open source Godot editor: huge community potential
📺 Visually stunning, one of the best-optimised FPSs of the year

❌ Negative points

🧀 Gruyere maps: too small, full of corridors and windows in every direction. As a result, some of them look more like CoD than Battlefield, with a front line that no longer really exists.
📖 Generic, forgettable single-player campaign: shaky storyline, bland characters
💸 Live service model with battle pass and paid cosmetics

🎯 For you if : you want the best multiplayer FPS of 2025, no question.

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