There is no blueprint to creating the best FPS games that you should play today. Some of our picks offer fantastic single-player campaigns that we’re still thinking about decades later, others offer incredible social spaces where you can hang with your buddies, and there’s a fair few on here that will draw out your competitive grindy games nature.
We’ve focused on core first-person shooters here, so you aren’t going to find games like Deathloop and Fallout 4 – excellent experiences which otherwise integrate action, adventure, and RPG systems to support their core mechanics. For more of those, you’ll want to find our ranking of the best shooters on the market. Otherwise, you should keep scrolling to find our pick of the 25 best FPS games that you can (and should) be playing right grinding games now.