Best Arena Shooter Games on Steam
Fast shooters built around movement, pickups, map control, and close-range duels.
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1ULTRAKILL - ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultra-violent retro FPS that combines the skill-based style scoring of character action games with the unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the '90s. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weaponry and shower in their blood to regain your health.
Sep 3, 2020
In this game, you can…
- toss a coin, shoot it midair, and ricochet the bullet into an enemy you can't even see.
- heal by getting right up next to enemies and absorbing their blood while you keep fighting.
- punch your own shotgun blast so it explodes on impact instead of just firing normally.
- time that coin shot at the apex so the bullet splits and detonates into a bigger hit.
- parry enemy attacks by punching them, including reflecting projectiles back at whoever fired them.
- swap between a big stack of guns mid-fight to cancel animations and fire faster without ever slowing down.
- chase perfect level ranks by optimizing routes and shaving tiny fractions of a second off your clear time.
- fight an endless survival arena where waves keep escalating until you finally die.
- spawn 10,000 rats in a sandbox, ground-slam, and crash the game and your PC.
2Brotato - Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Jun 23, 2023
In this game, you can…
- wield six weapons at once.
- play a character that can't use weapons at all and instead explodes on contact with enemies.
- lock shop items you can't afford, reroll the rest, then merge matching weapons into stronger versions.
- survive 20–90 second waves, then sprint into a shop to buy gear before the next swarm hits.
- start with a weapon type and see the shop start nudging more of that same style at you.
- pick from dozens of potatoes with big bonuses and penalties that force totally different runs.
- switch between manual aim to focus fire and auto-aim that sprays your guns in every direction.
- turn enemy drops into both money and XP, so every wave becomes a choice between staying alive and grabbing loot.
3Splitgate - Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
May 24, 2019
In this game, you can…
- play a mode where you only score by teabagging enemies after you kill them.
- fall into a floor portal, keep your momentum, and slingshot across the map into the enemy team for point-blank shotgun kills.
- set a portal on a safe side of the map and snipe through it, picking people off from an angle they can't see coming.
- portal behind someone mid-rush, kill them in the back, and watch them step into the portal thinking they're chasing you.
- open and close portals on the fly, then throw an EMP grenade to erase enemy portals and cut off their escape routes.
- stack custom modifiers like big heads, low gravity, and unlimited ammo to turn a match into a completely different game.
- run a custom lobby with friends as 5 humans vs 5 hard bots with 1-second respawns, turning every fight into nonstop chaos.
4Fistful of Frags - Multiplayer based, first person enabled, action packed and skill demanding shooter set in the Wild West times. A unique combination of non stop action and slow but powerful weaponry.
May 9, 2014
In this game, you can…
- throw your empty gun at someone when you run out of ammo, or kick their weapon away and capitalize immediately.
- get into a four-team shootout where the whole match turns into everyone fighting to stay on a moving train, kicking rivals off cars and tossing dynamite.
- drink whiskey to heal, but get so drunk your aim and accuracy suffer.
- jump off a building and kill someone with a sawn-off double barrel on the way down.
- mount two huge pistols at once, mix a revolver and shotgun one-handed, or fan the hammer for fast sloppy shots.
- shoot a cowboy's hat clean off their head, with trickier hat shots scoring more than an easy kill.
- back a teammate by healing them mid-fight with a portable whiskey bottle, then watch the enemy team rush your exposed position all at once.
- burst into a saloon brawl where someone's playing piano, everyone drops their guns, and the fight ends when dynamite clears the room.
5DUSK - Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
Dec 10, 2018
In this game, you can…
- start impaled on a meat hook, tear yourself free, grab sickles, and immediately carve through the cult that strung you up.
- grab a powerup that turns time into a "only moves when you move" state, then sprint through a fight in stop-and-go bursts.
- flush toilet paper, books, skulls, and even human entrails down toilets.
- run at breakneck speed, chain huge jumps with mid-air flips, and keep perfect aim while you never take fall damage.
- rotate your gun instead of reloading, then grab a nearby object and throw it as a weapon.
- pick up boulders and hurl them at enemies until they explode into chunks.
- use your sickles to reflect enemy projectiles back at whoever fired them.
- carry every weapon at once, from dual pistols and a super shotgun to a crossbow that pierces and a mortar you can detonate mid-air.
- slide or dodge-roll under incoming attacks, then pop up and blast enemies point-blank with a sawn-off shotgun.
6STRAFTAT - STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Oct 24, 2024
In this game, you can…
- launch yourself across the map by dropping a barrel on yourself and jumping with slide momentum.
- see a single match bounce through 10–11 different maps, with the winner of each quick bout sending you to a new arena next round.
- clip out of bounds with a barrel, find the devs accounted for it, and grab an AK outside the intended play space.
- chain wall jumps, slides, bunny hops, vaults, and rocket jumps into one momentum line that keeps carrying you.
- turn a barrel into a whole fight plan: hold it as a shield, throw it at someone's head, then slide under them and land a shotgun headshot.
- dual wield a mine and a silenced pistol so you can plant the mine and instantly detonate it by shooting it.
- fight in arenas built around one weird rule, like ice stages that turn the entire map into a looping slide.
- scavenge whatever weapon is on the map, then immediately ambush your opponent before they gear up too.
7Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun - Load up your Boltgun and unleash the awesome Space Marine arsenal to blast your way through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood in a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, frenetic gameplay and the stylish visuals of 90’s retro shooters.
May 23, 2023
In this game, you can…
- watch certain enemies change forms unless you overkill them: champions resurrect stronger, and pink horrors split into blue horrors.
- fire a gravity-gun shot that pulls like a black hole and can wipe a whole cluster of enemies at once.
- hold the chainsword to charge, then release to lunge forward fast enough to close distance or cross gaps.
- delete a cultist into bloody chunks with a single boltgun shot.
- swap between a heavy bolter, shotgun, meltagun, plasma gun, lasgun, grenade launcher, and a gravity gun mid-campaign.
- get locked into purge arenas until every enemy is dead, then move on through rooms redecorated by explosions and gore.
- tap a hidden navigation button so a servo-skull chirps and points you toward the next area.
- tear through a chain of tight corridor arenas with barrels, ambushes, and mixed enemy types forcing constant dashing and weapon swaps.
8MADNESS: Project Nexus - MADNESS: Project Nexus is a third-person Run n' Gun / Beat'Em Up filled with arcade-style action and button-mashing brutality. Gun your way through droves of bad guys in the Story Campaign, or build your perfect killing machine in the neverending onslaught of Arena Mode.
Sep 29, 2021
In this game, you can…
- walk into Arena with absurd loadouts like dual explosive shotguns, a 500‑round minigun, and five shielded bodyguards with SMGs.
- use Playground mode to spawn squads, give everyone custom weapons, and jump in to test how enemies fight each other.
- pick wildly different origins, like a huge brawler who makes enemies explode with punches or a "gangster wizard" who shoots magic.
- throw your empty gun at someone when you run out of ammo.
- switch instantly between shooting, stabbing, blocking, parrying, and fighting bare-handed as the same brawl keeps moving.
- dual-wield weapons, then hurl them hard enough to kill before grabbing something else.
- stun an enemy, trigger a takedown, and watch them get torn in half in a brief freeze of action.
- build an arena character from a disposable grunt into a top-tier killer, then run New Game+ imprints to rebuild them differently.
9Quake - Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
Aug 3, 2007
In this game, you can…
- kill zombies that get back up unless you finish them with explosives
- enter secret levels that change the rules, like dropping the whole map into low gravity
- rocket-jump up ledges and skip big chunks of a level by blasting your own feet
- bunnyhop and strafe at absurd speed to slingshot through rooms and corridors
- chain a quad-damage pickup with the super nailgun and shred entire fights in seconds
- start the game by stepping through portals, then discover a hidden Nightmare difficulty portal beyond hard
- get launched into trap setups where the level teleports enemies in and turns the room itself into the ambush
- fight through four episodes to collect four magic runes, then use them to reach the final evil
10Nova Drift - Nova Drift distills the mechanical depth and strategy of an ARPG into classic arcade space combat. Control an endlessly evolving bio-mechanical ship, face legions of strange and deadly foes, and ride the wake of a dying star across the void.
Aug 12, 2024
In this game, you can…
- stockpile over 200 missiles and fire them all at once.
- become an ever-growing serpent that shreds enemies with its own body as it expands.
- convert your shield into a huge roving bubble that powers you up while you fight inside it.
- turn all your projectiles into one gigantic merged shot.
- have your shield break and instantly warp-teleport away in a blast.
- build a ship so tanky and fast that ramming is your main way to kill.
- make bombs multiply after exploding, then home into enemies for chained screen-filling blasts.
- push into endless mode after winning and keep scaling into absurd wave counts.
