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
Good ol counter strike
I’ve been really enjoying The Finals. It reminds me a lot of battlefield bad company as strange as that sounds. It has a heavy emphasis on destruction and different classes but without making things complicated.
Very easy to pick up but hard to master. A very fun casual game.
For a less competitive casual shooter I have always enjoyed DOOM more specifically BRUTALDOOM which has some extreme difficulty settings but on lower settings is very casual and easy to enjoy.
With brutal you get a lot of QOL features such as aim down sights as well as more theatrical additions such as the blood system which is still very impressive.
It may be your cup of tea to kill something with a chainsaw and watch the blood drip from the ceiling. Very enjoyable game
Dusk, definitively try that
Iron Maiden
Red Eclipse, although I’m not sure how large the player base is
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.
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.
Xonotic, an open-source arena shooter
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.
+1 for Xonotic. It scratches the Quake 3: Arena itch extremely well.
I can recommend Selaco. It’s built on GZDoom and one of the best shooters I’ve played in the last years.
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.
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.
@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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Deep Rock Galactic. Rock and stone, miner!
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Any Boomer Shooters like Dusk, ULTRAKILL, Zortch, Cultic, ROBOQUEST, etc.
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.
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.
Team Fortress 2
