Hello. The past few months Ive been almost exclusively playing fantasy and survival games, so much so that I need a break from them.
Looking for single player FPS recommendations with controller support from the last decade. A good story is preferred.
Games Ive played:
- Warframe (dont ask. The lore is okay-ish. I stayed for friends).
- Titanfall 2. (PEAK)
- Apex Legends (Briefly. The sweatiness and timed lore turned me off).
- Doom 2016 (Dropped this, sadly. Gunplay and parkour was AWESOME, but the whole devil worship thing really turned me off. Edit: The devil Worshippers themselves turned me off. You do not worship devils ingame. More details in comments).
- Dying Light 1. (Okay Story. Awesome fighting. Never played 2 because of the whole controversy with the
story director. EDIT: Story writer, not director) - The Metro Series. 1, 2 and Exodus. (Slightly weak lore. Still alot of fun).
Any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: regarding Dying Light:
https://screenrant.com/dying-light-2-developer-techland-loses-another-writer/
https://screenrant.com/dying-light-2-developers-frustration-bad-management/
Edit: Thanks for the suggestions everyone! Currently gonna try:
- The Half Life Series.
- Halo
- Wolfenstein: New Order.
Serious Sam 3 is an FPS distilled into its most essential parts, imo.
Maybe the S.T.A.L.K.E.R franchise? OG and call of pripyat might be kind of old and thus have too much jank, but 2 just came out, and it promised to bring a similar vibe, and I LOVED that vibe.
There’s also some boomer shooters that combine the Doom FPS style with a bit of roguelike, like : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1229490/ULTRAKILL/
Wolfenstein: The New Order
I played a LOT of singleplayer FPS and this is one of the best in the genre. Great gunplay, fantastic soundtrack, good story.
Note that The Old Blood may not be your cup of tea
I’ll second this one, everything about it is top of the line to me. I was glued to this game all the way through, which is rare for me to do with an FPS. I even teared up a little at the end lol.
Borderlands?
Doom 2016 (Dropped this, sadly. Gunplay and parkour was AWESOME, but the whole devil worship thing really turned me off).
Off topic, but this game is the exact opposite of devil worship. The primary gameplay is to travel to Hell and kill demons.
Should have been clearer. The devil worshippers themselves creeped me out way too much for me to continue.
Ah, I could see that. It does have quite a bit of such things.
In-game or real life? Lol
I don’t remember any controversy surrounding DOOM and satanists irl
I get really invested in what I play. So long as background lore is consistent, I end making my own char lore and having a blast with it. The cult, as shown ingame, just really creeped me out.
Cyberpunk 2077. It’s a futuristic FPS that feels very similar to GTA. I personally like the integration between uploading viruses to enemies while you shoot at them. And the stories are often quite good.
You can get it on sale for half price. And the Phantom Liberty DLC is worth getting bundled with it.
There are entire AAA games with less content than Phantom Liberty
Maaaaan I’ve had that installed for a long time and have never played it. I should start that this weekend.
Half Life 2 is excellent.
FEAR 2 is good and scary enough for me.
Cyberpunk 2077
Trepang2
Black Mesa is a remake of HL1 and very good
Half Life pretty much started the whole ‘FPS games with a story told throughout the gameplay’ which you seem to have a lot of games played like that.
If you enjoy Titanfall 2 you might like Call of Duty Black Ops 3. I still havent found a game that handles so well and feels so smooth. It got a lot of flak at the time (2014) because everyone was tired of future shoooters, but imo it has the best fps mechanics not only in cod, but in any fps game. The story is also really good; I wont spoil but it does get kinda philosophical and has plenty of twists and turns.
As others have said, the Half Life series is probably the best fps objectively. I started with 2 and then played 1, so while they do go in order, it isn’t required. HL1 is a bit clunky but still great.
Also James Bond 007 games are criminally underrated. Everyone knows about Goldeneye for the N64, but some of my favorites are Nightfire, From Russia with Love, Everything or Nothing, and Goldeneye Reloaded. A lot of the Steam pages were taken down for them though, and are only really playable on console, but definitely worth it if you are able to play
HL1 is a bit clunky but still great.
Try out Black Mesa. It’s a proper remake of HL1, not just a reskin. They did a damn good job, including a very large build out of the Xen levels, making it into a proper portion of the game, rather than what existed in HL1 which felt a bit rushed.
Far Cry 5. you blaspheme your way across montana, killing and pillaging, to a kick-ass soundtrack.
Probably the best of the Far Cry’s, which to me otherwise mostly feel like the same game.
3, 4, 5 are the same game, but Far Cry Primal stands out, with smilodon ride on trippy shamanic juice, very enjoyable.
Portal 1&2, for a change of pace.
Half life 2 was really good.
Helldivers 2
It’s primarily 3rd person but then again so is Warframe.
F.E.A.R. series, Half life series (including black mesa remake) S.t.a.l.k.e.r series
