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Indie FPS Games With The Best Weapons

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October 21, 2024

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The first-person shooter is one of the more saturated genres in video games, particularly in the AAA industry. However, indie games have taken several cracks at the genre over the years, especially recently, thanks in large part to a resurgence in old-school FPS design and low-poly visuals, allowing first-person shooters to be made on smaller budgets.

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Plenty of AA FPS games fly under the radar all the time for not reaching the AAA status. Here are some of the best ones in this category.

Some first-person shooters, such as the fantastic indie game, HROT, are elevated by their immersive atmospheres and level designs. However, many shooters, especially those inspired by 90s classics such as Quake, live and die with their weapons.

6 BattleBit Remastered

A Large-Scale FPS That Recaptures The Magic Of Battlefield

BattleBit Remastered

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Released: June 15, 2023
Developer: SgtOkiDoki, Vilaskis, TheLiquidHorse

Players who enjoyed the visceral, ambitious, and large-scale first-person action of the Battlefield franchise should spare more than a passing glance at BattleBit Remastered. It may not look like much on the surface, but BattleBit Remastered recaptures the magic of games such as Battlefield: Bad Company 2 with great success.

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BattleBit Remastered features fully destructible, expansive landscapes, with objective-based gameplay that encourages squad-based teamwork. The game’s variety of weapons and Battlefield-style classes, along with the variety of attachments and weapon customization, allow each player to fulfill a very specific role throughout each game, resulting in an experience that rarely feels stale.

5 Neon White

An FPS That Focuses On Expressive Movement

Released: June 16, 2022
Developer(s): Angel Matrix

While it doesn’t offer the violent, combat-fueled gameplay of traditional shooters, Neon White still manages to offer players a diverse variety of weaponry with which to battle demons from the first-person perspective. Neon White doesn’t focus on its bare-bones combat mechanics, however, and these weapons are not great for how they feel to use, but the ways in which they can be applied as players blitz through the game’s levels.

Neon White is all about expressive movement, moving through levels as fast as humanly possible. This game encourages players to replay levels to beat their best time, and while routes can play a part in speed, the use of the game’s weapons is incredibly important; each weapon harnesses a powerful movement ability that players can exploit in order to cut corners and reach places that would otherwise be out of reach, making the efficient use of them integral to success in most missions.

4 Maximum Action

An Indie FPS Inspired By Action Cinema And Max Payne

Platform(s): PC
Released: 2018
Developer(s): George Mandell
Genre: FPS

Fans of John Woo action films such as Hard Boiled and Face/Off should certainly consider taking a look at Maximum Action. This indie first-person shooter features a low-poly art-style and a clear love for old-school action cinema, with gameplay that borrows from the likes of classics such as Max Payne.

Maximum Action features a dizzying array of weapons, and although many of them feel familiar, each can be just as satisfying to use as players blast through the 80s and 90s-inspired levels. Maximum Action is, as its title suggests, all about the action; there’s no story, no real characters of any kind, just the player blasting through enemies in stylish slow-motion and making use of a variety of weapons.

3 DUSK

A Solid Old-School FPS With A Variety Of Classic Weapons

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Released: December 10, 2018
Developer: David Szymanski

Its greatest strength may be its dense atmosphere and light horror elements, but DUSK’s well-crafted arsenal of weapons, however low-poly, are the fuel with which players are propelled through its old-school FPS episodes. The game’s developer, David Szymanski, took inspiration from a variety of 90s shooters (Quake, Heretic, Redneck Rampage), and it shows.

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From the groovy shotgun and the dual-wielding handguns, to the massive “Riveter” and the marksman’s crossbow, DUSK’s weapons each offer their own strengths and weaknesses. The game even features hilariously-deadly soap bars hidden throughout each level.

2 ULTRAKILL

A Hyper-Violent Low-Poly FPS With Skill-Based Weaponry

Ultrakill

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Released: September 3, 2020
Developer(s): Arsi “Hakita” Patala

Its arsenal may be more limited than other indie shooters, but each of ULTRAKILL’s weapons are tremendously expressive; skill-based secondary firing modes facilitate neat tricks to execute, and the exaggerated animations and weighty sound design make using each gun a satisfying experience.

The excessive gore and punchy sounds offer visceral combat encounters, and the low-poly visuals ensure that it’s unlikely to disturb. It’s also worth noting that although ULTRAKILL is initially limited in its arsenal, each weapon has multiple variants that offer diversity.

1 CULTIC

A Blend Of Homage And Survival-Horror Supported By Punchy Gunplay

Cultic

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Released: October 13, 2022
Developer: Jasozz Games

Clearly paying more than a little homage to the old-school BUILD Engine boomer shooter, Blood, CULTIC is a distinctive blend of classic boomer shooter action and the atmosphere of B-movie survival horror such as Resident Evil 4, with a few direct references thrown in. The gameplay is tight, thick with atmosphere and dense with fast-flowing level designs. CULTIC’s gunplay, however, is what takes the cake.

Any game that allows players to blast enemies with freshly-cooked dynamite gets an A, and there are, unfortunately, few games that do this well. Blood is one of them, and CULTIC just makes the process more intuitive; exploiting the various bundles of dynamite found throughout the game is an integral part of overcoming CULTIC’s challenges, and they’re more fun than any grenade could ever hope to be. The dynamite is just one of many offensive tools in an arsenal brimming with punchy, weighty weapons; from the lever-action rifle and the Sten submachine gun, to the more exotic China Lake grenade launcher, CULTIC’s weapons each offer their own strengths and weaknesses, and they’re all displayed with crunchy pixel art and satisfying animations.