The most popular abandonware shooter games
Shooter video games are all about shooting targets and avoiding being shot down. The kind of game is often defined by the player perspective (FPS stands for First Person Shooter, TPS stands for Third Person Shooter), or by gameplay: shoot'em up, run and gun, shooting gallery.
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Die Hard
DOS1989 third-person shooter
Quake 2
Windows XP/98/95Windows 10/11Mac OS1997protecteddemo first-person shooter
Quake II is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software and released in 1997. It is the sequel to the original Quake and was a significant milestone in the evolution of 3D graphics in video games. Quake II main...
Hostage: Rescue Mission
DOS1989
Mega Man X
DOS1995protected run and gun, platform
Project-X
DOS1994 shoot 'em up
Bram Stoker's Dracula
DOS1993 first-person shooter
Bram Stoker's Dracula (the game) is based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula (the movie) based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula (the book). Confused yet? Good. This 1993 action-platformer has you battling the undead with the grace of a ...
Invasion of the Mutant Space Bats of Doom
DOS1995 shoot 'em up
CHAMP Galagon
DOS1997remake shoot 'em up
Airborne Ranger
DOS1988 shoot 'em up
Strap in and crawl through the mud - Airborne Ranger (1988) is here to chew bubblegum and infiltrate enemy lines. And it's all out of bubblegum. This tactical action game lets you drop behind enemy territory, blow things up, and l...
Stargate
DOS1983 shoot 'em up
CyClones
DOS1994protected first-person shooter
Unreal Gold
Windows XP/98/95LinuxMac OS2000 first-person shooter
Unreal Gold is a first-person shooter (FPS) video game developed by Epic MegaGames and published by GT Interactive. It was originally released in 1998 for Windows. Unreal Gold is an enhanced edition of the original Unreal game, an...
Star Wars: Dark Forces
DOS1995protected first-person shooter
Assault Trooper
DOS1997
In Assault Trooper, you're the lone soldier with enough ammo to make Rambo blush, dropped behind enemy lines to shoot first and ask “was that a civilian?” later. This 1997 top-down shooter screams “keyboard-mashi...
MDK
DOSMac OSWindows XP/98/951997protected third-person shooter
Unreal (Ordilogic)
DOS1991
Virus
DOS1988 third-person shooter
Blood Money
DOS1990 shoot 'em up
Blood Money (1990) answers the question: what if every level in a shoot-'em-up was a different kind of sci-fi fever dream? You fly through alien-infested caverns, collect cash, and try not to get obliterated by things that look li...
Rise of the Triad: Dark War
DOS1994protected first-person shooter
Seek and Destroy
DOS1996 shoot 'em up
Seek and Destroy was a shoot'em up published by the well known Epic Megagames in 1996 that tried to change the usual shoot'em up gameplay for the better. Instead of wave after wave of enemies to shoot down, you are given short mis...
The Terminator: Future Shock
DOS1995 first-person shooter
The Terminator: Future Shock is an abandoned science fiction first-person shooter game based on the popular Terminator movies franchise, set in a dystopian world where machines has taken over the Earth. The Terminator: Future Shoc...
Witchaven
DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected first-person shooter
Witchaven is an abandoned fantasy first-person shooter (or "slasher", since you'll wield melee weapons) developed by Capstone and released by IntraCorp in 1995 for DOS and Windows. Witchaven includes RPG elements such as experienc...
Powerslave
DOS1996 first-person shooter
Contra: Locked and Loaded
Windows 10/112013freewareremake run and gun
007: License to Kill
DOS1989 shoot 'em up
Before James Bond was saving the world with cinematic flair, he was crashing pixelated helicopters in 007: License to Kill. This top-down action game takes the movie and crams it into six bite-sized missions of explosions, awkward...
Shadow Warrior
DOS1997protected first-person shooter
Outbound
Windows XP/98/952001freeware third-person shooter
Nova 9: The Return of Gir Draxon
DOS1991 first-person shooter, tank simulation
Alien Cabal
DOS1997freeware first-person shooter
Imagine Doom got abducted by aliens, experimented on, and sent back to Earth with a case of amnesia. That’s Alien Cabal (1997). It’s a weird mix of FPS action and X-Files paranoia, with pixelated bad guys who look like...