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10 Must-Play FPS Games Dropping Mid-2025

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With the re-invention and advancement of technology, game engines, and immersive mechanics evolving at break-neck speed, the 2025 lineup is shaped to be wild ride with medieval twists, promising pulse-pounding suspense, innovative gameplay mechanics, immersive narratives and jaw-dropping visuals you won't want to miss. Fasten your seatbelt, it is going to be a wild ride ahead! Here are our top 10 shooter games that deserve a prime spot on your radar:


1. Doom: The Dark Ages


Doom: The Dark Ages is a first person shooter game developed by id Software and published by Bethesda Softworks. It is intended to be the eighth main entry in the Doom franchise and the third installment of the modern series, following Doom Eternal (2020).


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Released 15th May 2025 DOOM: The Dark Ages

DOOM: The Dark Ages is the prequel to the critically acclaimed DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal that tells an epic cinematic story of the DOOM Slayer’s rage. Players will step into the blood-stained boots of the DOOM Slayer, in this never-before-seen dark and sinister medieval war against Hell.


2. Borderlands 4


Borderlands 4 is a mayhem-fueled looter shooter, jam-packed with billions of weapons, outrageous enemies, and intense co-op action. It is a sequel to Borderlands 3 (2019) and the fifth entry in the main Borderlands series. It is developed by Gearbox Software and published by 2K.


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Releasing 23rd September 2025 (in 112 days) Borderlands 4

Borderlands 4 is a mayhem-fueled looter shooter, jam-packed with billions of weapons, outrageous enemies, and intense co-op action. Break free from a dangerous hidden planet as one of four new badass Vault Hunters. Coming September 23, 2025. Wishlist now!


3. Pathologic 3


Pathologic 3 is an FPS-game packed with thrilling adventures featuring survival and role-playing. It is the third installment in the Pathologic series following the story of the bachelor. It is developed by Ice-Pick Lodge.


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Releasing 2025 Pathologic 3

Save a town from a mysterious plague in this narrative first-person RPG. Learn the stories of its unusual inhabitants. Shape their lives with your decrees. Diagnose patients. Face the Plague. Connect the dots. Find out who killed the immortal man. Correct your mistakes in the past.


4. Killing Floor 3


Killing Floor 3 is a survival horror video game developed and published by Tripwire Interactive. A successor to Killing Floor 2, set in 2091, this co-op shooter pits players against bioengineered monsters known as ZEDs. Joining the Nightfall rebel group, players will experience intense six-player co-op gameplay, enhanced by Unreal Engine 5's stunning visuals.


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Release TBA (To Be Announced) Killing Floor 3

It’s 2091 and megacorp Horzine has produced the ultimate army: an obedient horde of bioengineered monsters called zeds. Now, join the rebel group Nightfall in this co-op action/horror FPS that puts you and your teammates in a battle for the future of humanity.


5. Dying Light: The Beast


Reintroducing protagonist Kyle Crane, this standalone zombie horror adventure is set in Castor Woods, a desolate tourist hotspot. Players will uncover dark secrets while surviving against terrifying foes and a mysterious new predator.


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Release TBA (To Be Announced) Dying Light: The Beast

Dying Light: The Beast is a thrilling standalone zombie adventure set in a tightly-crafted rural region. Play as Kyle Crane, a legendary hero who breaks free after years of brutal experiments. Now, he must realize there’s more at stake than just revenge.


6. Mouse: P.I. For Hire


Inspired by early Mickey Mouse cartoons, this noir-style FPS features hand-drawn animation. Players follow Private Investigator Jack Pepper through the crime-ridden streets of Mouseburg, navigating mob-filled alleys and engaging in stylish shootouts. MOUSE combines the charm of hand-drawn rubber hose animation inspired by the classic cartoons of the 1930’s with the adrenaline and action of an explosive first person shooter.


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Releasing 2025 MOUSE: P.I. For Hire

Join private investigator Jack Pepper on a guns blazing, jazz-fueled adventure in MOUSE: P.I. For Hire. MOUSE combines the charm of hand-drawn rubber hose animation inspired by the classic cartoons of the 1930’s with the adrenaline and action of an explosive first person shooter.


7. Terminator: Survivors


Terminator: Survivors is a survival game based on the Terminator series. The game is set in 2009 in an open world, featuring an original story prior to the discovery of John Connor's human resistance. It focuses on salvaging supplies and resources to manage and improve a base of operations, while fighting off Skynet's machines and other humans. It is developed by Nacon Studio Milan and published by Nacon.


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Releasing 2025 Terminator: Survivors

Play as a survivor in an open world set after Judgment Day where you, alone or in co-op, scavenge resources to build a base of operations for mankind. But you’re not alone. Skynet’s machines hunt you down as well as rival human factions.


8. Jump Ship


A mission based co-op FPS shooter game made for up to 4 players who happen to be the crew of a spaceship. It offers features like seamless transition from crewing the ship to on-foot exploration and space walks, engaging in intense battles both on the ground and in space, and keeping your upgraded ship intact. It is developed and published by Keepsake Games.


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Releasing 2025 Jump Ship

Jump Ship is a mission based co-op FPS for up to 4 players, where you are the crew of a spaceship. Transition seamlessly from crewing the ship to on-foot exploration and space walks. Engage in intense battles both on the ground and in space, and always keep your ship upgraded and intact.


9. Splitgate 2


This is rebirth of Splitgate, bringing fast-paced portal gunplay with objective-based game modes, distinctive new maps, and a wild collection of weapons. The rebirth of the game offers mind-blowing and unique portal features where players can team up, customize weapons, and master portaling skills as you compete for glory in epic showdowns. Portal into the action as an elite Ace in Splitgate 2, the only free-to-play shooter where you can teleport across the map to outsmart your opponent. It is developed and published by 1047 Games.


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Releasing 2025 Splitgate 2

Portal into the action as an elite Ace in Splitgate 2, the only free-to-play shooter where you can teleport across the map to outsmart your opponents. Team up, customize weapons, and master portaling skills as you compete for glory in epic showdowns.


10. Atomfall


Atomfall is a survival game set in an alternate history of inspired by real-life events, set in the 1960s where the windscale nuclear disasters turned much of Northern England into a radioactive quarantine zone. It is developed and published by Rebellion Developments.


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Released 27th March 2025 Atomfall

A nuclear disaster has left an area of Britain in tatters. Atomfall, a new survival-action game, will see you explore, scavenge, craft, barter and fight your way through beautifully recreated scenery in search of answers.


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