Most Popular Shooter Games on Steam

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Counter-Strike 2 For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 21 Aug 2012
Apex Legends™ Apex Legends is the award-winning, free-to-play Hero Shooter from Respawn Entertainment. Master an ever-growing roster of legendary characters with powerful abilities, and experience strategic squad play and innovative gameplay in the next evolution of Hero Shooter and Battle Royale.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.7
Release 04 Nov 2020
Team Fortress 2 Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 10 Oct 2007
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
Unturned You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 07 Jul 2017
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 01 Dec 2015
Garry's Mod Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

Price 9.99€
Rating 9.6
Release 29 Nov 2006
Rust The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.

Price -41% 23.68€
Rating 8.7
Release 08 Feb 2018
HELLDIVERS™ 2 The Galaxy’s Last Line of Offence. Enlist in the Helldivers and join the fight for freedom across a hostile galaxy in a fast, frantic, and ferocious third-person shooter.

Price -52% 19.56€
Rating 7.6
Release 08 Feb 2024
PAYDAY 2 PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew - Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains - as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.

Price -74% 2.66€
Rating 8.9
Release 13 Aug 2013
Warframe Awaken as an unstoppable warrior and battle alongside your friends in this story-driven free-to-play online action game

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 25 Mar 2013
Destiny 2 Destiny 2 is an action MMO with a single evolving world that you and your friends can join anytime, anywhere, absolutely free.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 01 Oct 2019
War Thunder War Thunder is the most comprehensive free-to-play, cross-platform, MMO military game dedicated to aviation, armoured vehicles, and naval craft, from the early 20th century to the most advanced modern combat units. Join now and take part in major battles on land, in the air, and at sea.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 15 Aug 2013
World of Warships Immerse yourself in thrilling naval battles and assemble an armada of over 600 ships from the first half of the 20th century — from stealthy destroyers to gigantic battleships. Change the look of your ship, choose upgrades to suit your play style, and go into battle with other players!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 15 Nov 2017
War Robots: Frontiers Gear up for tactical mech action in War Robots: Frontiers, a free-to-play multiplayer mech shooter. Construct and customize, squad up with Pilots online, and fire up your engines in massive intergalactic battles.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.3
Release 04 Mar 2025
Red Dead Redemption 2 Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde Gang are outlaws on the run. With federal agents and bounty hunters massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland in order to survive.

Price -75% 14.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 05 Dec 2019
DayZ How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.

Price -49% 24.77€
Rating 7.6
Release 13 Dec 2018
Fallout 4 From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.

Price -77% 4.64€
Rating 8.2
Release 09 Nov 2015
Paladins® Paladins is the ultimate fantasy team-based shooter experience, with over 50 customizable Champions fighting in 5v5 action across a diverse Realm of modes and maps!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 08 May 2018
Borderlands 2 The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.

Price -98% 0.64€
Rating 9.2
Release 20 Sep 2012
Arma 3 Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploy with a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, a massive arsenal of modern weapons and vehicles, and limitless opportunities for content creation. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war.

Price -82% 5.54€
Rating 9.0
Release 12 Sep 2013
Counter-Strike Play the world's number 1 online action game. Engage in an incredibly realistic brand of terrorist warfare in this wildly popular team-based game. Ally with teammates to complete strategic missions. Take out enemy sites. Rescue hostages. Your role affects your team's success. Your team's success affects your role.

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.6
Release 01 Nov 2000
Half-Life 2 Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.7
Release 16 Nov 2004
Schedule I From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.

Price -3% 19.00€
Rating 9.7
Release 24 Mar 2025
Hunt: Showdown 1896 Hunt: Showdown 1896 is a new era of the addictively unforgiving extraction shooter. In corrupted backwaters lost to history, fight back alone – or with friends – against timeless evil. Twisted monsters and other ruthless Hunters stand between you and your Bounty. Risk everything as Hunt consumes you

Price -89% 4.68€
Rating 7.2
Release 27 Aug 2019
Battlefield™ V This is the ultimate Battlefield V experience. Enter mankind’s greatest conflict with the complete arsenal of weapons, vehicles, and gadgets plus the best customization content of Year 1 and 2.

Price 49.99€
Rating 7.0
Release 22 Oct 2020
Counter-Strike: Source Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology.

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.5
Release 01 Nov 2004
Half-Life Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.

Price 8.19€
Rating 9.5
Release 19 Nov 1998
Halo Infinite From one of gaming's most iconic sagas, Halo is bigger than ever. Featuring an expansive open-world campaign and a dynamic free to play multiplayer experience.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 15 Nov 2021
World of Tanks Blitz Blow off steam and tank turrets in a free-to-play online 7v7 tank shooter! Drive hundreds of tanks, from museum classics to "did-that-ever-exist?" specials, in quick 5 to 7-minute brawls packed with metal mayhem. Play solo or team up with a friend and enjoy smooth action even on modest hardware!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 09 Nov 2016
Black Squad Black Squad is a free-to-play military first-person-shooter. Players can master their skills and show off their strategies with a wide range of game maps, modes, and weapons to choose from. Join thousands of FPS players worldwide in one of the most played games on Steam!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 26 Jun 2019
CyberCorp Brutal fast-paced isometric Co-op Loot Shooter in Cyberpunk world. Equipment-based combos. Exotic Weapons and Armor. Easy to start, hard to master. Play solo or with friends.

Price -35% 9.61€
Rating 7.7
Release 22 Apr 2025
Deep Rock Galactic Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!

Price -82% 5.69€
Rating 9.6
Release 13 May 2020
Risk of Rain 2 Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.

Price -89% 2.86€
Rating 9.3
Release 11 Aug 2020
Titanfall® 2 Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.

Price 29.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 18 Jun 2020
Tomb Raider Game of the Year Tomb Raider explores the intense origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor.

Price -85% 2.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 04 Mar 2013

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