Best Shooter Games on Steam

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Alien Breed 2: Assault Can you survive the alien onslaught? Gamers across the world will now have a chance to play the next chapter in this high-budget, high-quality series.

Price -96% 0.88€
Rating 6.7
Release 22 Sep 2010
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days Pure adrenaline of non-stop action in Single Player, Online Co-op and Multiplayer. Double the pleasure and mayhem with new multiplayer DLCs! (click for details)

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 17 Aug 2010
Alien Swarm Co-operative multiplayer game and complete code base available for free.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 19 Jul 2010
Chaser Mars, 2044. The UN establishes MARSCORP (Martian Security and Economics Committee) under the leadership of Samuel Longwood. In the years that follow, the UN gradually loses control of MARSCORP, mainly due to the non-transparent licence policy of its director.

Price -80% 1.04€
Rating 6.8
Release 16 Jul 2010
Day of Defeat: Source Valve's WWII Multiplayer Classic - Now available for Mac.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.0
Release 12 Jul 2010
Singularity™ FIGHT THE PAST TO SAVE THE FUTURE. STOP THE SINGULARITY. Learn the truth behind a massive cover-up of the catastrophic SINGULARITY, an event that fractured time and threatens the world as we know it. Armed with powerful, advanced weaponry and the experimental Time Manipulation Device, fight enemies from the past, the present, and...

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 30 Jun 2010
Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead Three years after the conflict in Chernarus, portrayed in the original Arma 2, a new flashpoint explodes in the Green Sea Region. Coalition forces led by the US Army are deployed to Takistan to quickly restore peace and prevent further civilian casualties.

Price -94% 0.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 Jun 2010
Alien Breed: Impact Experience the explosive science fiction arcade-shooter that resurrects a much revered franchise in an epic single player and co-op multiplayer campaign.

Price -80% 4.19€
Rating 7.2
Release 03 Jun 2010
Alpha Protocol™ Loyalty carries a price and no one knows this more than agent Michael Thorton. A talented young agent cast out by his government, Thorton is the only one with the information needed to stop an impending international catastrophe.

Price -50% 9.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 27 May 2010
F.E.A.R. Experience the original F.E.A.R. along with F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.

Price -77% 2.11€
Rating 9.1
Release 21 May 2010
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction™ In this stealth-action thriller, Sam Fisher investigates his daughter’s death, only to uncover a betrayal by his former agency. Now hunted, he races against time to thwart a terrorist plot threatening millions.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 29 Apr 2010
Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS and Gamespot's Game of the Month!

Price -85% 3.05€
Rating 8.6
Release 28 Apr 2010
AquaNox The water is no longer calm. The undersea world has undergone a transformation from tranquil environment to a place of unspeakable violence, graphic murder and horrific danger.

Price -92% 0.40€
Rating 6.7
Release 20 Apr 2010
Beat Hazard Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.

Price -96% 0.47€
Rating 9.2
Release 15 Apr 2010
Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West is a third-person shooter that delivers an intense team-based multiplayer experience. Relive the violent era of the Wild West with adrenaline-fueled action and fast-paced gunfights. Engage in gritty battles in beautifully rendered classic Western settings.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 08 Apr 2010
Just Cause 2 Dive into an adrenaline-fuelled free-roaming adventure with 400 square miles of rugged terrain and hundreds of weapons and vehicles.

Price -97% 0.56€
Rating 8.9
Release 23 Mar 2010
NecroVisioN: Lost Company NecroVisioN: Lost Company is the prequel to original horror FPS shooter, taking place before the NecroVisioN story begins. It contains a bunch of unique levels, characters, weapons and gameplay elements as well as new main hero that presents the original game story from opposite perspective.

Price -95% 0.40€
Rating 6.8
Release 19 Feb 2010
Aliens vs. Predator™ Survive, hunt and prey in the deadly jungles and swamps in distinctly new and thrilling first person gameplay.

Price -80% 2.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 16 Feb 2010
Pirates Vikings & Knights II Step into the ultimate three-way war for honor, glory, and gold! This beloved community-driven game brings together swashbuckling Pirates, battle-hardened Vikings, and chivalrous Knights in hilarious and intense class-based combat. Join the fun, embrace the chaos, and fight your way to victory!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 12 Feb 2010
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is the direct sequel of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. As a Major Alexander Degtyarev you should investigate the crash of the governmental helicopters around the Zone and find out, what happened there.

Price -47% 10.76€
Rating 9.4
Release 11 Feb 2010
BioShock® 2 Set approximately 10 years after the events of the original BioShock, the halls of Rapture once again echo with sins of the past. Along the Atlantic coastline, a monster has been snatching little girls and bringing them back to the undersea city of Rapture.

Price -86% 2.92€
Rating 8.7
Release 09 Feb 2010
Aliens versus Predator Classic 2000 Aliens Versus Predator Classic 2000 features the Colonial Marine, Alien and Predator Campaigns and the frenetic single-player Skirmish mode from the original title: Alien Versus Predator Gold Edition, which was released to massive acclaim in 2000.

Price -79% 1.09€
Rating 8.4
Release 15 Jan 2010
Wings of Prey: Special Edition Wings of Prey is based around large-scale aerial combat in World War II. Players can participate in some of the most famous battles piloting fighters, attack aircraft and bombers across a range of thrilling missions.

Price 9.75€
Rating 6.2
Release 08 Jan 2010
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition Prepare for the Future™ With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 17 Dec 2009
Altitude Now Available on PC, Mac and Linux!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Dec 2009
Rogue Warrior Rogue Warrior is a character-driven, first-person-shooter, featuring Richard 'Demo Dick' Marcinko's explosive personality in an action-packed single player campaign, and intense multiplayer combat. Playing as Richard 'Demo Dick' Marcinko, you go behind the iron curtain to disrupt a suspected North Korean ballistic missile program.

Price -77% 1.18€
Rating 6.5
Release 01 Dec 2009
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter is a visually upgraded and fully Steam supported remake version of the original high-adrenaline single-play and 16-player co-operative arcade-action FPS which was Gamespot's Game of the Year 2001 and which scored overall of 87% on Metacritic!

Price -85% 2.27€
Rating 9.1
Release 24 Nov 2009
Zombie Shooter 2 Just choose a character to the liking, get experience to develop skills, earn money and spend it at weapons, medications and useful devices. All of this will be used against thousands of enemies. The zombies fill the game screen, never letting you rest, even for a minute.

Price -76% 2.38€
Rating 7.5
Release 18 Nov 2009
Left 4 Dead 2 Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.7
Release 16 Nov 2009
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) The most-anticipated game of the year and the sequel to the best-selling first-person action game of all time, Modern Warfare 2 continues the gripping and heart-racing action as players face off against a new threat dedicated to bringing the world to the brink of collapse.

Price -17% 16.60€
Rating 9.2
Release 11 Nov 2009
Combat Wings: Battle of Britain Destroy the Luftwaffe! There’s something new in the air, and it’s more than the hum of hundreds of aero engines... As the Luftwaffe launches its aerial offensive, the outnumbered Royal Air Force is scrambling to bring into combat new planes that will ensure victory over a stronger foe. Will they succeed?

Price -92% 0.42€
Rating 7.6
Release 14 Oct 2009
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is a game about a fictitious conflict on one of the Sakhalin islands.

Price 8.03€
Rating 6.7
Release 06 Oct 2009
MDK ON A GOOD DAY, ONLY 2.5 MILLION PEOPLE WILL DIE. As vast alien mining cities suck the power and minerals from every major metropolis on Earth simultaneously, time is of the essence as millions of civilians are expiring by the second.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 17 Sep 2009
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Mysteries of the Sith™ It is five years after Kyle's victory over the seven dark Jedi. Invading Imperial forces advance upon a quiet Rebel outpost, interrupting Kyle's training of a brave new Jedi, Mara Jade. First introduced in Timothy Zahn's award-winning Star Wars novel, Heir to the Empire, Mara Jade blends her past experiences as a one time smuggler and...

Price 2.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 16 Sep 2009
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II picks up where the award-winning Dark Forces™ game left off...with even more features and firepower in dazzling 3D graphics. As Kyle Katarn, you must acquire a lightsaber and learn the ways of the Force to become a Jedi Knight.

Price 5.89€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Sep 2009
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast™ The Legacy of Star Wars Dark Forces™ and Star Wars® Jedi Knight lives on in the intense first-person action of Jedi Outcast.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.8
Release 16 Sep 2009

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