Hello, I’m interested into some good casula shooter’s that work on linux. My only requirement is that they shouldn’t EVER have to use an external launcher like ea ( have bf3 on steam and the ea launcher just doesn’t wanna work ).
I played games like splitgate, halo infinite and battlebit remastered
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If Sunset Overdrive by Insomniac is too casual and platformy, there are oldschool Quake games just remastered that can make anyone’s blood boil with a pretty okay difficulty scaleing.
If you are talking about multiplayer :
- The Finals
- Insurgency Sandstorm
- Hunt: Showdown 1896
- Hell Let Loose
- CS 2
- No More Room in Hell 1&2
Many options !
With the exception of the last one which is a co-op zombie shooter, these are all intensely sweaty competitive multiplayer games. The Finals is the most “casual” and that’s a battle royale which is generally not considered a casual genre. I:S is literally a milsim…
Hunt: Showdown isn’t a casual shooter though
Xonotic, an open-source arena shooter
I remember playing that when it was Nexuiz (the first time). I may have to crank it up again now that I’ve been reminded of it.
This is pretty fun, thanks!
+1 for Xonotic. It scratches the Quake 3: Arena itch extremely well.
Any Boomer Shooters like Dusk, ULTRAKILL, Zortch, Cultic, ROBOQUEST, etc.
Serious Sam
Ofcourse the gane made in my country got recommended.
I finished it already but might be the time to replay it.
Open Arena
Red Eclipse, although I’m not sure how large the player base is
Deep Rock Galactic. Rock and stone, miner!
Seriously one of the best coop shooters out there. So much character, and by now there are quite a few different mission types making replayability much better than when it first came out. The constant updates are also nothing to scoff at, especially considering the games price.
I can recommend Selaco. It’s built on GZDoom and one of the best shooters I’ve played in the last years.
Ion fury and Hedon are solid too, build engine and gzdoom respectively. Selaco though, sometimes it’s almost hard to believe it’s running on the doom engine.
Agreed, the technical side is super impressive. The 2D character sprites are basically the only constant reminder how old this engine really is.
Iron Maiden
Ravenfield is a great choice if you want a Battlefield like experience, but offline against bots.
Try Ravenfield. It doesn’t get anymore casual than that. The most fun you can have with a battlefield like game without any of the BS.
Team Fortress 2
i was about to shit my pants that this wasn’t mentioned. i love this game. and we’re currently botless.
Is it actually easy to find a game without bots and hackers, or is it only on certain community servers?
So for now - fixtf2 worked! There are near zero bots and bot hosters and creators got steam banned. Last scream fortress 2023 was unplayable… this year I almost cried as I was playing through my contracts with no issues.
Well shit, I guess it’s time to reinstall
Would run and gun games count? If so, I strongly recommend the Neo Geo Metal Slug games. They’re all sold emulated on PC (GOG for the no launcher requirement).
And on a more usual sense of “shooter games”, Saints Row The Third (GOG and Humble Bundle) and UNLOVED (original version is a mod of Doom II afaik). And just a note, Saints Rows The Third, from some tests I did a while back, seems to have a memory leak issue in character customization screens when running under default Wine.
What is a casual shooter? As opposed to… a serious shooter?
I guess as in a shooter for “casual gamers” as opposed to players that spend 10 hours a day to play CS or CoD online (or whatever is popular atm)
Yup, so probably more Doom or Serious Sam and less Arma.
Okay I can definitely see how Arma is intricate. But if Halo is considered a casual shooter then CoD single player campaign would be casual too right?
Yeah, I’d assume so.
