Best Looter Shooter Games on Steam
Shooters built around repeat missions, gear drops, builds, and power progression.
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1Unturned - 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.
2Deep 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!
May 13, 2020
In this game, you can…
- drink a round that rockets the whole team forward, then slam into each other and the station while shouting and tossing mugs.
- freeze enemies solid, drill them to pieces, and heal off them while they can't move or fight back.
- hit the drop pod with seconds left, spot a teammate down far away, and turn the escape into a full rescue run mid-extraction.
- turn a pre-mission lobby into a hangout with beer, dancing, minigames, and physical goofing around instead of menus.
- grapple to impossible-to-reach minerals, then have a teammate shoot a platform under you so you can mine safely and get out.
- finish the objective, call extraction, then carve a brand-new tunnel straight to the drop pod while bugs race you through it.
- fight off swarms in caves that aren't preset arenas, so every defense turns into a new improvisation based on cliffs, tunnels, and open voids.
- bring a solo drone that mines, lights caves, carries minerals, digs paths, and can revive you so you can still finish missions alone.
3Risk 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.
Aug 11, 2020
In this game, you can…
- turn a minigun build so toxic that a teleporter spawns four bosses, one dies in seconds, and the chain explosions wipe the entire map.
- reach a point where normal enemies are bosses, and teleporter bosses stop spawning because everything on the map already counts as a boss.
- interrupt a wedding, kill the bride and groom, steal their rings, and then use those rings to kill more enemies.
- activate a giant teleporter, hold its circle against nonstop spawns, and watch a boss erupt before you're allowed to leave.
- stack damage boosts, crit bursts, and on-hit effects until one kill triggers explosions, lightning, fireworks, and orbital lasers across the whole area.
- loop a run until the game starts spawning hundreds of enemies that immediately die, flooding the screen with coins, missiles, and chained effects.
- feed a boss-killing item to equipment drones and grind boss loot until the payoff becomes "Ahoy!" over and over.
- go from a crash survivor to firing hundreds of homing missiles and calling orbital bombardments within ten minutes.
- fight on the moon to end a run, or keep looping until even a godlike build can still collapse during the final test.
4Borderlands 2 - The Ultimate Vault Hunter’s Upgrade lets you get the most out of the Borderlands 2 experience.
Sep 17, 2012
In this game, you can…
- dual-wield any two guns, including two rocket launchers at once.
- loot a gun with hidden red-text behavior that shoots explosive swords instead of bullets.
- run a secret quest where you toss a ring into lava, then three birds fly in and drop loot chests.
- get downed, then save yourself by killing an enemy to stand back up.
- build characters into totally different roles, like a turret-dropping soldier, a crowd-lifting siren, or an invisible melee assassin.
- spend 50 golden keys in a row, grab a new weapon, then immediately jump back into a hard fight to see if it flips the outcome.
- replay the whole campaign in escalating modes where enemies get nastier and your build and weapons have to keep evolving.
- smash through enemies in an off-road vehicle while crossing huge hostile zones on Pandora.
- farm bosses and chests for randomized drops until you finally hit a perfect weapon-part roll
5Gunfire Reborn - Gunfire Reborn is a level-based adventure game featuring FPS, Roguelite and RPG. Players can control heroes with various abilities to experience diverse Build gameplay, use various weapons to explore procedurally-generated levels. You can play the game alone, or join 4-player coop.
Nov 17, 2021
In this game, you can…
- abuse a gun's reload to repeatedly drop mecha chickens for millions of damage.
- reload a living lizard gun by smacking it on the head.
- play co-op where everyone gets their own loot drops, then freely hand the perfect weapon or scroll to a teammate.
- feed fish snacks to a shotgun with a mouth to reload it.
- turn a close-quarters brawler into a sniper who quickscopes enemies across the room.
- build around elemental combos like electro plus corrosion to strip defenses and melt shields and armor.
- watch your scrolls and passives start triggering each other nonstop until you're a walking chain reaction.
- take secret vault detours with bonus platforming and challenge rooms that change the stage and swing your build.
6Borderlands Game of the Year - Get ready for the mind blowing insanity! Play as one of four trigger-happy mercenaries and take out everything that stands in your way! With its addictive action, frantic first-person shooter combat, massive arsenal of weaponry, RPG elements and four-player co-op, Borderlands is a breakthrough experience that challenges all the...
Aug 31, 2023
In this game, you can…
- open a random locker and find a legendary gun.
- assemble guns from mix-and-match parts that can change recoil, accuracy, and even make bullets spiral out in tornado patterns.
- flip your car over barriers with melee, then shove it into a boss fight and use it like a blunt instrument.
- drop a defense turret for cover, rip through a mob, then clean up the last fifteen skags without reloading your plan.
- shoot lightning, fire, acid, and explosive rounds, then watch enemies react differently as the damage types stack and spread.
- go berserk and beat enemies to death with fists that hit harder than any gun.
- barrel across a desert in armed cars, trade gunfire with other vehicles, and pull off stunts while you chase targets through the wasteland.
- play in co-op and end up negotiating who gets the best drops while you survive big fights together.
7Crab Champions - Claw your way across exotic islands combining fluid movement with fast paced combat to become a Crab Champion in this third person roguelike shooter.
Apr 1, 2023
In this game, you can…
- mod a rocket launcher into a 600+ rounds-per-minute projectile storm that spawns even more shots on impact.
- choose to loop after the last level, then keep pushing into endless islands until your run snowballs into chaos past Island 100.
- take on challenge runs that demand precision, like clearing objectives without getting hit or collecting 20 legendary mods in one run.
- stack upgrades into self-feeding combos where one effect triggers another, and the chain keeps growing as you pick more loot.
- pick a weapon at the start, then build around it so hard that totally different perks become worth chasing or skipping.
- use a single button to auto-loot an entire map covered in drops after a huge fight.
- team up in co-op, save your run at biome starts, and come back later to keep escalating the same build with friends.
- move through parkour-heavy rooms with fast, responsive mobility while the shooting chaos keeps escalating around you.
8Risk of Rain Returns - Carefully designed, beautifully remastered, and loaded with new ways to play—Risk of Rain is back and better than ever! Dive into the iconic roguelike full of unique loot combinations, enhanced with new Survivors, overhauled multiplayer, fan favorite content from Risk of Rain 2, and more!
Nov 8, 2023
In this game, you can…
- stack items until your basic shots trigger chain lightning and explosions that leap across the whole screen.
- play a survivor who scraps enemies, spawns temporary power-up items for teammates, then steals them back to fuel a huge area blast.
- turn on artifacts that make equipment reroll into something random every use, then stack item synergies until every fight rewrites itself.
- activate extra difficulty shrines, then fight a powered-up boss while the stage keeps spawning enemies like nothing's changed.
- switch a character's alternate skills to make them play like a completely different fighter, not just a stat tweak.
- use 2D terrain like a weapon by kiting enemies into geysers, perching on ledges, and forcing pathing mistakes.
- beat a stage by killing the boss, then surviving 90 seconds instead of wiping every last enemy.
- hunt secrets by poking under logs and stones, slipping through no-collision walls, and uncovering hidden artifacts.
- run couch co-op or seamless online co-op without any port-forwarding hassle.
9Roboquest - Roboquest is a fast FPS Roguelite in a scorched futureworld. You're a rebooted Guardian, ready to kick some metal ass! Fight with your buddy or by yourself and annihilate hordes of deadly bots in ever-changing environments.
Nov 7, 2023
In this game, you can…
- throw bees at robots as a ninja on the moon.
- get dared into close-range kills because health orbs vanish fast and heal more when you've just taken damage.
- chain double jumps, dashes, wall-jumps, a jetpack, and a grappling hook to fly through fights.
- wall-jump over a robot barrage, land behind another enemy, and score a critical hit on its weak spot.
- find branching routes where a hidden key on one path unlocks a different route later.
- stack burn, cryo, and shock effects with perks so the same gun behaves completely differently each run.
- revive a co-op partner and split your health, turning a rescue into a desperate trade-off.
- collect wrenches during runs to upgrade a basecamp and unlock new gameplay for future runs.
10Arrow a Row - Arrow a row is a game in which you shoot arrows (of course) in a row! or maybe two rows! (maybe three?) Choose your power-ups and defeat the Boss.
Aug 20, 2023
In this game, you can…
- beat the boss and get sent back to the start with maxed buffs, faster movement, and tougher enemies for a second phase.
- reroll boss chest rewards until you hit the exact upgrade you want.
- start a run with a dragon, a dog, and stacked weapon buffs after buying out the store.
- slide left and right while the run plays itself.
- pick rapid-fire power-ups mid-run that completely reshape your build.
- double your pets and stack enough upgrades to end up with ridiculous dragon counts.
- build around blue swords until the weapon path goes infinite.
- fire 30 arrows at once after stacking the right bow upgrades.
