Best First-Person Games on Steam
Games viewed through the character's eyes for direct perspective and immersion.
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1Team Fortress 2
- Players say: Choose from nine distinct mercenary classes and team up in fast-paced, objective-based matches across several game modes. Players like: Distinct Class Playstyles · Chaotic Match Humor · Memorable Character Design
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Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats!
Oct 10, 2007
In this game, you can…
- join a match that turns into a ceasefire where both teams build sentries, drain their ammo to make them click, then stack into towers on top.
- watch the objective get stolen and then join a conga line that marches across the map until both teams are partying in the goal room.
- blast-jump yourself across the map with rockets to reach rooftops, flank fights, and escape danger.
- switch between nine totally different classes with roles that change how you move, fight, and support your team.
- go invisible as a spy, sneak behind the enemy line, and take people out up close before vanishing again.
- play a co-op mode where you team up to survive wave after wave of attacking robots.
- get headshot while you're doing a taunt because a sniper is calmly posted on a distant tower.
- walk into a live round and end up playing rock-paper-scissors with an enemy instead of fighting.
2Left 4 Dead 2
- Players say: Four survivors battle through Deep South campaigns, sharing supplies and rescuing teammates as zombie encounters shift each run. Players like: Co-op Teamwork · Dynamic Replayability · Workshop Mods
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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.
Nov 16, 2009
In this game, you can…
- play as the infected in multiplayer, coordinating ambushes and hunting your friends as special monsters.
- have a giant brute show up mid-fight and start throwing cars at you in the middle of your escape route.
- run the same campaign twice and get different enemy spawns, item placement, lighting, and even weather, changing every fight and route.
- rip through a crowd with a chainsaw, then swap to a frying pan and keep clearing zombies up close.
- get grabbed by a long tongue and dragged around a corner while your team has to sprint after you.
- startle a crying witch, and she instantly mauls the nearest survivor.
- get vomited on, and it immediately calls a horde straight onto your whole team.
- race to fill a generator with gas cans while the other team tries to stop you, turning the match into a frantic objective sprint.
3Red Dead Redemption 2
- Players say: As outlaw Arthur Morgan, survive a changing 1899 frontier through gang jobs, gunfights, and free-roaming exploration. Players like: Story and Characters · Living Open World · Immersive Details
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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.
Dec 5, 2019
In this game, you can…
- get remembered as a thief months later, with people recalling what you stole and treating you differently.
- tie someone up, feed them to an alligator, then come back later to see scavengers pick over what's left.
- kill someone in the wilderness, then return days later to find the same body still there, rotting as birds gather.
- lose at poker, then pull a revolver, shoot the table, and loot your money back.
- watch eagles grab rabbits, fish jump for bugs, and predators hunt while the world keeps going without you.
- ride into a town, chat with strangers, and have individual people remember how you acted toward them.
- rob a train, get into a high-stakes shootout, and watch the world snap from quiet travel to explosive violence in seconds.
4Phasmophobia
- Players say: Investigate haunted locations alone or with up to three teammates, using ghost-hunting gear and observed behavior to identify spirits. Players like: Co-op with Friends · Ghost Deduction · Tense Investigations
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Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Sep 18, 2020
In this game, you can…
- use your real voice to taunt a ghost, and it can hunt you for what you say.
- ask a ghost questions, hear it answer "close" and "die," then get strangled while your friends photograph the body for cash.
- trigger a cursed item that starts a deadly round of hide-and-seek while you listen from a hiding spot.
- insult a ghost inside the house, and it can instantly lock the door and start hunting your teammate.
- sit in the truck watching cameras and sensors while your friends investigate inside and try not to get hunted.
- take a photo of a ghost standing over a collapsing teammate, and sell that death moment as mission-paying evidence.
- watch a ghost ignore everyone else during a hunt, beeline to the basement to stare at you, then walk away.
5The Forest
- Players say: After a plane crash, search for your missing son while crafting shelter, exploring caves, and surviving cannibal mutants. Players like: Base Building · Co-op Chaos · Cave Exploration
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As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Apr 30, 2018
In this game, you can…
- get knocked out, dragged through the forest, and wake up trapped in a cave you have to escape.
- watch cannibals scout your camp, retreat to call reinforcements, and come back as a coordinated raiding party.
- fight off a base siege where mutants smash your walls and one rips up a whole tree to use as a weapon.
- wake up after a plane crash and hunt for your kidnapped son by following clues through caves, boats, and survivor camps.
- build treehouses, cliff forts, and spiked walls, then have a falling tree smash your own structure to pieces.
- craft gear by gluing teeth to your axe, wearing bones as armor, and turning skulls and bodies into lamps and defenses.
- creep through pitch-black caves, squeeze through flooded passages, and surface missing gear with enemies still hunting you.
- turn the crash site into a long-term fortress, or build rafts and dock houses into a whole river-and-coast base network.
6Unturned
- Players say: Scavenge a zombie-overrun world, craft gear and shelter, and try to survive alone or with others in co-op and PvP. Players like: Nostalgic Memories · Playing With Friends · Open-Ended Survival
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Unturned is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. As one of the few not yet turned, you must fight to remain among the living.
Jul 7, 2017
In this game, you can…
- arrest other players with handcuffs and blindfolds instead of killing them, then stage prisoner captures on roleplay servers.
- find a tank, stock ammo for it, and use it to raid other players' bases.
- pose as a killed player, talk your way into their squad, ride in their truck, then shoot the front seats and take everything.
- build a silenced, scoped marksman gun from junk parts, including duct-tape optics and a campfire-made muffler.
- shoot out of vehicles, cram friends into a truck, and do drive-bys as a rolling squad platform.
- fortify rooftops and hillside bases with barricades and traps, or even build on a vehicle to make a moving fortress.
- recruit a beach full of kids into your crew, make yourself the leader, and roll up on bases as a growing mob.
- explore huge maps for hidden bunkers, military zones, and radioactive deadzones, then hop into custom workshop maps built for totally different modes.
7Dying Light
- Players say: Trapped in zombie-stricken Harran, an agent races across rooftops, scavenges supplies, crafts weapons, and faces deadly nights. Players like: Fluid Rooftop Parkour · Tense Night Chases · Satisfying Melee Combat
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First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.
Jan 26, 2015
In this game, you can…
- swing across the skyline with a grappling hook that opens up entirely new routes.
- outrun night hunters, flash an ultraviolet light to buy seconds, then hide in a pipe until the chase ends.
- dropkick enemies off rooftops so they ragdoll down six-story drops.
- chain parkour into kills by vaulting a zombie and instantly drop-attacking for a finisher.
- turn the city into a weapon by luring zombies into spikes, fires, and exploding barrels.
- risk going out at night for bigger rewards, then sprint safehouse-to-safehouse when the world flips into hunt mode.
- craft melee weapons with elemental effects that set zombies on fire or shock them on hit.
- join a friend in co-op and race rooftops together, turning escapes into shared, chaotic near-misses.
8Portal 2
- Players say: As an Aperture Science test subject, solve physics puzzles with portals and new tools, or tackle a separate campaign in co-op. Players like: Clever Portal Puzzles · Sharp Character Humor · Separate Co-op Campaign
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The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Apr 18, 2011
In this game, you can…
- hit a chapter title that literally says "this is the part where he kills you" as the game turns it into a set-piece
- bounce across chambers with repulsion gel, build insane speed with propulsion gel, then paint walls to make new portal surfaces
- play co-op where each robot has its own portal gun, and your solution can break the bridge your partner is standing on
- wake up from long-term stasis, get guided by a friendly AI, and then have the main villain come back online
- use portals to redirect lasers, light bridges, and tractor beams through moving machinery to power your way forward
- chain portals to fling yourself over pits, launch cubes onto buttons, and keep extending the same trick into bigger gaps
- replay co-op stages for least time and least portals, racing friends as they knock you off the leaderboard
- drop into community-made test chambers and keep getting brand-new puzzles long after the story ends
9R.E.P.O.
- Players say: As a robot crew in haunted ruins, haul fragile valuables past monsters and extract enough loot to fund upgrades. Players like: Co-op Laughs · Chaotic Physics · Horror Atmosphere
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An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Feb 26, 2025
In this game, you can…
- get dumped into a boxing arena when the mission fails and beat your friends to crown a winner.
- run over a teammate with the cart, pick up their body, and use it to kill a monster.
- watch a monster sprint up, snatch a 20k statue you can barely lift, and hurl it back hard enough to wipe the team.
- revive teammates mid-round by cashing out their head, or dragging them back to the truck for a revive.
- haul fragile, fully physics-based treasure like pianos and antique vases that can smash, drop, or lose value on the way out.
- pick up crouching teammates, throw them onto shelves, and turn their bodies into weapons or hazards.
- sneak past monsters while dragging sofa-sized loot, then get yanked down a hallway by a ghost as someone drops into an elevator shaft.
- hide under furniture and whisper in proximity voice chat while monsters search, with the dead and living stuck in separate comms.
10BeamNG.drive
- Players say: A vehicle sandbox where you drive, tune, race, and crash cars whose soft-body parts deform and affect handling in real time. Players like: Realistic Vehicle Physics · Deformable Crash Damage · Extensive Mod Support
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A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.
May 29, 2015
In this game, you can…
- change gravity settings and watch the same truck drive completely differently under moon or Jupiter gravity.
- join multiplayer races and chases, and keep driving even with half your truck bent under itself.
- wrap a car around itself by slamming it into a fence over and over.
- spawn traffic, rear-end someone, and get launched airborne for five seconds in the wreck.
- break your suspension cutting a rally corner, then limp the rest of the stage to the finish.
- build absurd custom vehicles, like a JATO rocket semi, then immediately stress-test them out in the world.
- take on deliveries, bus routes, police chases, and truck jobs where normal tasks turn dramatic because the physics won't fake it.
- hit traffic at highway speed, then crash into a jam in slow motion and watch the pileup deform in detail.
