10 Best FPS Games You Need to Play This Summer

Summer brings with it a change in people's general mood, which, if you're a gamer, manifests as a transformation in what you want to play.

Some are drawn to delve into open worlds that can take hundreds of hours, while others get the urge to play shorter titles and finish many in a short amount of time; in both cases, the desire stems from the knowledge that the season has changed.

I myself have experienced such shifts in my gaming preferences depending on how many hours I'm forced to keep the air conditioning on to avoid sweltering, so I can speak from experience.

Therefore, in order to make the sunny hours of this period even more fleeting and enjoyable, I invite you to check out this list of the ten best FPS games you need to play this summer.

You Don't Need Management

When the infernal heat makes you lose your temper, and you feel like smashing your discless boxes of video game codes, it's best to channel that energy into Anger Foot's straightforward fun.

On top of Hotline Miami's formula, where both you and your enemies die in one shot, it acquires a fresh feel by placing you in first-person perspective and adding verticality, urging you to fly through each environment while shooting (and kicking) everything that breathes.

Thanks to the brevity of its missions and overall campaign, you have the opportunity to either enjoy the initial adrenaline rush or challenge yourself to beat your own high scores, taking advantage of the different shoes and abilities they provide, as well as maximizing your aim and movement.

It tries too hard to be funny and only manages to be endearing at best, though that's enough to set the mood for a title that lives for and by excessive violence, which is where Anger Foot excels, especially when you kick a door and see six different corpses flying with the decade's most exaggerated ragdoll physics.

9 Neon White

Speedrunners' Heaven

Maintaining Anger Foot's frenetic pace, but adding a heavier strategic layer by incorporating platforming and cards into the equation, Neon White is simply a speedrunner's paradise.

The sense of speed conveyed by this strange, but exhilarating combination of genres is astonishing, leading you to use a variety of weapons to slay diverse demons in artificial levels and discard them to acquire movement abilities.

This mixture of shooting and discarding through cards makes the game not only a superb platforming FPS, but also a constant puzzle where you must carefully manage your resources to reach the goal without leaving a single vile entity alive.

Its synergy works perfectly, and if you add the visual novel cutscenes where you learn more about the characters and the intriguing lore of their world, you get Neon White as a marvel that will quickly make you a fan.

A Musical and Infernal Descent

Gamers often significantly underestimate the importance of rhythm in an FPS campaign, and that's why The Outsiders decided to make it extraordinarily obvious with Metal: Hellsinger.

By linking the soundtrack to your shots, so that the damage you inflict increases based on how well you match the glorious tracks' beats, you become acutely aware of the meticulously calculated speed at which the genre operates, albeit here taken to another level.

Gliding through hell while shooting and slashing to the sound of metal anthems easily becomes one of the most distinctive experiences you'll encounter in the video game industry, because I can think of few sensations exactly like it.

If you're skilled, the campaign will be short, but if you're a record-breaker or a heavy music fan, I'm so sure you'll love Metal: Hellsinger that I'd bet my life your headphones will be burning after a single play session.

7 Deathloop

An Unrepeatable Loop

Not everything in summer has to be about fast-paced titles that leave you no time to process what's happening, because we should also include experiences that let you immerse yourself in an entire playable world, as you do in Deathloop.

Arkane Studios is the master of the modern immersive sims, which is reflected in this title that combines stealth, FPS, and pseudo-roguelike elements within a rich context where deciphering the enigmatic loop that makes you relive it again and again feels masterful.

Unraveling Blackreef's mysteries by finding the information needed to destroy the antagonists is extraordinary, as it is mechanically connecting with every one of its maps to discover how to access said data.

With Dishonored's level design and powers, but with refined gunplay and more creative and fantastical scenarios, Deathloop engulfs you in a colossal puzzle that, when you finally have the necessary tools to solve it in a final, thorough attempt, leaves you feeling on cloud nine.

6 Dying Light: The Beast

Vacation in the Apocalypse

After numerous installments where every inch you travel feels like your last, Dying Light: The Beast is an unexpected power fantasy that delivers so much satisfaction it can contain it.

With a Kyle Crane more buffed than ever, and an equally unparalleled number of gameplay options, Castor Woods is the playground where the series showcases its best side in every mechanical and audiovisual sense, boasting a gorgeous setting and addictive gameplay.

Leaping from rooftop to rooftop with the fluidity of air while stealthily or voraciously assassinating every infected that crosses your path is brutal, especially since the progression system allows you to customize and empower your character to a point where the simple act of violence becomes mesmerizing.

It loses a bit of the overall tension of its predecessors (except at night, where it far surpasses them), but it's a sacrifice entirely worthwhile to exploit the profound possibilities Dying Light: The Beast offers for combat and movement.

5 Wolfenstein: The New Order

An Impressive Reboot

Returning to the exhilarating and indiscriminating world of "enemy that I see, enemy that gets a bullet in their head", Wolfenstein: The New Order is the first reason to consider MachineGames what they are: gods of classic FPS games.

While deeply respecting its name's legacy, but introducing modern innovations, the studio delivered a sensational reboot where shooting Nazis feels better than ever thanks to the variety of locations, situations, and weapons at your disposal.

You'll find stealth, getaways, melee combat, boss fights, explosions galore, and even massive firefights with humans and robots, because this reimagining of human history goes far beyond simply interchanging ammo with bigots.

Regardless, you should take advantage of the summer to play both its DLC and its sequel (and avoid Youngblood altogether), because what the developer was able to achieve with the IP thanks to Wolfenstein: The New Order is phenomenal.

4 Borderlands 2

Loot-Hunting Season

Whether you play with a friend or solo, Borderlands 2 is one of those experiences that can consume hundreds of hours, yet you feel completely at ease with the idea of ​​investing so much time on Pandora.

Gearbox Software's formula has had its ups and downs, yet this installment found the perfect balance between a huge variety of weapons, enemies, and environments with a solid narrative, unforgettable characters, witty dialogue, and, of course, one of the best antagonists in history.

The game's humorous and irreverent style might be misleading regarding its overall quality, though just a couple of hours reveal how extraordinarily well-thought-out it is; from the storyline to the loot system, the meticulously calculated direction of every element is outstanding.

Having played it both solo and with friends, I can assure you both experiences are awesome and very different from each other, making it a perfect summer option based on how much entertainment it offers.

3 Mullet Madjack

For Dopamine Sundays

It's a summer Sunday, you've been consuming cheap dopamine all day, and your receptors can't handle another short video, so you decide to dust off your copy of Mullet Madjack and boom: you vanish from this reality until further notice.

In recent years, I've rarely been so engrossed in a game this intense and violent, but the 90s style of its gunfights and aesthetic, along with the mechanics that force you to kill enemies every 10 seconds to avoid dying, completely absorbs you.

The contradiction Mullet Madjack presents, criticizing hyper-consumption and humanity's constant connection to entertainment while simultaneously inviting you to a feast of indecipherable yet mesmerizing stimuli, is exquisite, as it drowns you in the very thing that makes you reflect.

It's a self-aware creation, satirizing itself to the point of crudeness to be more than just a great FPS. It's extremely fun and compelling, yes, but it also makes you appreciate the current state of the cultural industries and how we interact with them, which is invaluable.

2 DOOM

An Eternal Bloodbath

Coming from a franchise that influenced subsequent decades, the DOOM reboot is so sensational that recommending it only in the summer limits what we should really be doing, which is recommending it every day.

id Software proved they haven't lost their touch in the slightest, and that new technologies served them phenomenally well in creating one of the century's most refined and fascinating shooters, whose technical and graphical prowess is only surpassed by the visceral experience of controlling the Doom Slayer.

Every enemy placement, resource, upgrade, platform, weapon, and boss is so precisely distributed to maintain momentum from the campaign's beginning to its end that you can only imagine they hired an entire team to define the pacing, because it's immaculate like few other things in this world.

Jumping from one enemy to another, performing indescribable executions on their bodies while their blood heals you and recharges your ammunition so you can continue firing trillions of bullets even at walls, is the closest the video game industry has come to reaching spiritual completion, and it's all thanks to DOOM.

1 Far Cry 3

The Island for Lunatics and Gamers

Perhaps the best game I've ever played during an entire summer, Far Cry 3 stands as one of the best FPS games ever conceived and as the ultimate reminder that Ubisoft was simply unstoppable in the seventh generation of consoles.

It's difficult to accept that a video game that defined the contemporary open-world formula—which many, myself included, detest—is so magnificent when it comes to shooting, but the gunplay strikes such a divine balance between feeling clunky given the context and satisfying given it's a video game that it's almost unbelievable.

Considering that the stealth works phenomenally well, that the act of going from camp to camp killing everyone is captivating, and that the endless secondary activities, from driving to swimming or hunting, are excellent, it's inconceivable not to want to finish the game with 100% completion.

Then you have its intriguing story, one of the most iconic villains in video game history (or maybe several), and a rather interesting critique of violence within the interactive medium, and you have a polished work in every aspect.

I won't even mention the cooperative mode because it's not necessary to definitively convince you it's number one on this list, but let it be undeniably clear that Far Cry 3 is exceptional through and through.