Good casual shooters
Hello, I'm interested into some good casula shooter's that work on linux. My only requirement is that they shouldn't EVER have to use an external launcher like ea ( have bf3 on steam and the ea launcher just doesn't wanna work ).
I played games like splitgate, halo infinite and battlebit remastered
I can recommend Selaco. It's built on GZDoom and one of the best shooters I've played in the last years.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1592280/Selaco/
Ion fury and Hedon are solid too, build engine and gzdoom respectively. Selaco though, sometimes it's almost hard to believe it's running on the doom engine.
Agreed, the technical side is super impressive. The 2D character sprites are basically the only constant reminder how old this engine really is.
Xonotic, an open-source arena shooter
+1 for Xonotic. It scratches the Quake 3: Arena itch extremely well.
I remember playing that when it was Nexuiz (the first time). I may have to crank it up again now that I've been reminded of it.
This is pretty fun, thanks!
Team Fortress 2
i was about to shit my pants that this wasn't mentioned. i love this game. and we're currently botless.
Is it actually easy to find a game without bots and hackers, or is it only on certain community servers?
So for now - fixtf2 worked! There are near zero bots and bot hosters and creators got steam banned. Last scream fortress 2023 was unplayable.... this year I almost cried as I was playing through my contracts with no issues.
Well shit, I guess it's time to reinstall
In 2024 few casual matches have bots longer than a few seconds, and they're rare.
Deep Rock Galactic. Rock and stone, miner!
Seriously one of the best coop shooters out there. So much character, and by now there are quite a few different mission types making replayability much better than when it first came out. The constant updates are also nothing to scoff at, especially considering the games price.
I have tried all these on Linux through proton.
Dusk - the OG boomer shooter revival game, should be the first game to try to see if you like these kinds of fps.
Amid evil - beautiful looking FPS instead of firing guns you fire unique magical weapons.
Ultrakill - extremely difficult movement shooter with a very interesting setting and lore. Its still not fully complete theres like a final layer thats still cooking but what's there is worth experiencing.
Selaco - FEAR inspired FPS built in GZDoom somehow. Tight movement, great gunplay, interesting enemy difficulty progression, superior AI that will flank your ass and hammer you with what feels like tactical actions, great interactive environments.
Turbo ultrakill- one of the most fun and bombastic FPS ive ever played. Play as a merc who gets turned into a living chainsaw as you ruin the plans of wannabe trancendent techno gods and run away super AI one bullet at a time
Cultic - plays heavy into blood and residents evil 4 inspirations to deliver a very mood atmospheric FPS with the best goddamn dynamite throwing mechanics since OG Blood itself. The single dev is really passionate and is constantly sharing updates to episode 2.
Ion Fury + ion fury aftershock A love letter to the best parts of build engine games of the 90s. Its incredibly well made build engine game with huge sprawling enviroments and too many secrets. The pistol with auto-lockon is hands down the best pistol Ive every used in any game. Aftershock DLC is even better than the base game.
Zortch - another passion project made by one person with an in-house engine coded just for the game. The enemy AI moves around a lot and the cartoony graphics and plot make it more of a light hearted title to have fun with like a game you would find on the N64. Its only 5$ and easily worth it.
Open Arena
This one was a lot of fun, if it's the one I think it is. Does it have instagib maps where you jump across platforms in space and one hit is one kill? I have very fond memories of that as a kid. Super fun.
Try Ravenfield. It doesn't get anymore casual than that. The most fun you can have with a battlefield like game without any of the BS.
Serious Sam
Ofcourse the gane made in my country got recommended.
I finished it already but might be the time to replay it.
Anger Foot natively supports Linux, and I'd consider the gameplay loop to be pretty casual.
To sum it up, you kick down doors and shoot your way through rooms while having hardcore EDM blasted at you. It has a Hotline Miami vibe to it, but is FPS.
Trailer with gameplay footage
More like this type of game:
Mullet Mad Jack
Post Void
Roboquest
Any Boomer Shooters like Dusk, ULTRAKILL, Zortch, Cultic, ROBOQUEST, etc.
Combat Master. Like CoD but simpler, no waiting, you start the game and end up playing in less than 2 mins, loading included.
Ravenfield is a great choice if you want a Battlefield like experience, but offline against bots.
Iron Maiden
Red Eclipse, although I'm not sure how large the player base is
Halo Infinite.. still works on Linux.
Battlebit Remastered is pretty fun but I have limited experience in that one.
Battlebit is great for a couple of rounds of brainless fun every other night. I'm not yet on linux myself, but it seems to work well via proton according to google, and it doesn't use an external launcher.
Tf2 is the vwst war themed hat simulator out there
Half Life 2.
Was just playing Gunslinger:Juarez , it is well produced, runs perfectly and is pretty fun.
I finished that game 4 times, might be time for 5th time.
Playing through now. It's really pretty well done. Lots of little humorous touches.
Yeah, runs on Linux fine (my experience was running it from Steam), looks good and is defintelly a shooter.
Turns out it's not really my kind of game because it's a succession of set-pieces (a sequence of fully fledged 3D areas were player progression is mostly linear) but for those more into the shooting and less into exploring or building angles it should be good fun as it's definitely all about the shooting your way through enemy strongpoints (not really about defending from enemy waves).
Yep that's accurate. There is some basic exploring with the secrets but it is sort of tacked on to the main set pieces. Very much an arcade feel.
Would run and gun games count? If so, I strongly recommend the Neo Geo Metal Slug games. They're all sold emulated on PC (GOG for the no launcher requirement).
And on a more usual sense of "shooter games", Saints Row The Third (GOG and Humble Bundle) and UNLOVED (original version is a mod of Doom II afaik). And just a note, Saints Rows The Third, from some tests I did a while back, seems to have a memory leak issue in character customization screens when running under default Wine.
Lots of good ones here, but I'll add one I haven't seen, cube 2: sauerbraten
That's a name I havent heard in a while..
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Alien Arena, Urban Terror, Xonotic
Many games have launchers which can be skipped by entering a command to the launch properties in Steam. Check the games info page in ProtonDB
What I mean't by launcher was mostly ea and u play.
Ea since it doesn't work for me and uplay since I don't like ubisoft.
Ravenfield for cartoony/low poly acradey fun
Operation Harsh Doorstop for something more like Project Reality
What is a casual shooter? As opposed to... a serious shooter?
I guess as in a shooter for "casual gamers" as opposed to players that spend 10 hours a day to play CS or CoD online (or whatever is popular atm)
Yup, so probably more Doom or Serious Sam and less Arma.
Okay I can definitely see how Arma is intricate. But if Halo is considered a casual shooter then CoD single player campaign would be casual too right?
Yeah, I'd assume so.
It's also a continuous variable, not categorical.
Some shooters are more casual than others.
@sic_semper_tyrannis @gigachad What about good old #UrbanTerror ?
I'm not sure if people still plays, but I used to have a lot of good fun back in the days 😀
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Totally Accurate Battlegrounds is really fun and silly. Doom Eternal is also cool.
If Sunset Overdrive by Insomniac is too casual and platformy, there are oldschool Quake games just remastered that can make anyone's blood boil with a pretty okay difficulty scaling.
Mullet Madjack.
Good ol counter strike
I played way too much Counter-Strike in college, and I don't regret a minute of it. Then I discovered the "that's so unrealistic bro" genre of shooters like Squad, Day-Z, Tarkov, and Arma, I never looked back.
What issue are you having with Battlefield 3/EA? I just installed it last week I think I did it via Lutris
My go-tos on my Arch laptop are Doom and Quake, there's tons of sourceports, both focused on singleplayer or multi player for both games and their sequels. You just need to buy the games once so you have the main game files to use with the optimized source ports.
If you are talking about multiplayer :
Many options !
Hunt: Showdown isn't a casual shooter though
With the exception of the last one which is a co-op zombie shooter, these are all intensely sweaty competitive multiplayer games. The Finals is the most "casual" and that's a battle royale which is generally not considered a casual genre. I:S is literally a milsim...