First-person shooter games

You walk around the world and shoot things. The game is played from the first-person perspective (from the eyes of the shooter).

List of First-person shooter games

This is a list of free/libre first-person shooter games:

Game	Screenshot	Last Release	Genres	Description
Adanaxis			A single-player 4D first person shooter in outer space	Adanaxis Adanaxis 1.2.5, level 4 (low detail). Note the transparency levels and colorful dot angles. Genre A single-player 4D first person shooter in outer space Latest release 1.2.5 Developer Mushware Limited (Andy Southgate) Code licenses GPLv2; an irrelevant non-free file in the commercial version ($18.95) Media licenses GPLv2; non-free files in the commercial version P. languages C++ Libraries GLUT Contribute Adanaxis is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Adanaxis is a deep space first-person shooter game in four spatial dimensions, written by Andy Southgate. The latest version of the game is 1.2.5. It is written in the C++ programming language using the GLUT library.
Arena of Honour		January 11, 2005	FPS	First-person shooter games Arena of Honour 0.83 Genre FPS Latest release 0.83 Release date January 11, 2005 Developers Artur Hallmann, Nils Keller Code license GPL P. language C++ Contribute First-person shooter games is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Arena of Honour is a multiplayer first-person shooter game written by Artur hallman and Nils Keller. The latest release of the game is version .83 on January 11, 2005. It is written in the C++ programming language.
BZFlag		2018-10-18	Online Multiplayer FPS	BZFlag BZFlag Genre Online Multiplayer FPS Latest release 2.4.18  (Announcement) Release date October 18th, 2018 Code license LGPL Media license LGPL P. language C++ Contribute BZFlag is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Chat Forum BZFlag, short for Battle Zone capture the Flag, is an online first-person shooter game. The code and media is licensed under the LGPL 2.1, with pieces of code and fonts being under other free licenses. Originally written by Chris Schoeneman, it is now maintained by Tim Riker. The game is written in the C++ programming language. Earlier versions were written in C.
Balder3D	no image	Oct. 26th, 2003	FPS	Balder3D Genre FPS Latest release 0.20 Release date Oct. 26th, 2003 Developer Bjørn Hansen Code license GPL Engines Crystal Space, Game Networking Engine Contribute Balder3D is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Balder3D is a GPL zero-gravity first-person shooter game created by Bjørn Hansen.
Black Shades Elite			FPS	Black Shades Elite Genre FPS Code license GPL version 2.0 Media license GPL version 2.0 Contribute Black Shades Elite is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Black Shades Elite is a fork of the game Black Shades, originally written by David Rosen and ported to linux by icculus.org. It is licensed under GPLv2 or later.
Blasphemer		2012-04-29	FPS	Blasphemer Genres FPS Latest release 0.1.5 Release date Apr. 29, 2012 Developers G. Wessner, Jute Gyte Code license GPL Media license 3-clause BSD Engine Heretic-based (vavoom, etc) Contribute Blasphemer is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Blasphemer is an FPS project whose initial goal is to serve as a Free data package for engines based on the GPLed Heretic source. The IWAD data is released under a 3-clause BSD license. Its theme is dark fantasy with inspirations from metal music and horror.
Chaos Esque Anthology		2020-02-15	1st person shooter	Chaos Esque Anthology Chaos Esque Anthology Genre 1st person shooter Latest release REL_117zzzzzi  (Announcement) Release date Feb 15th, 2020 Code license GPL Media license mixed: GPL, CC-BY Contribute Chaos Esque Anthology is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Forum Chaos Esque Anthology is a first-person shooter forked of Xonotic, it includes new features such as extended number of weapons (including medieval weapons), new maps, vehicles, spellcasting, monsters, player characters, textures and game modes. Chaos Esque Anthology has been in continuous separate development from Xonotic since forking from it in 2012. An example of such development is to compare the amount of weapons from before the fork in 2012 to the current number in the Chaos Esque Anthology project. The pre-fork amount was approximately 18 weapons. The current number of weapons in Chaos Esque Anthology is over 200 weapons. Approximately a ten-fold increase. This gives a glimpse into the amount of work that has been invested into the game. The spellcasting system has been expanded from non-existence to fifty (50) spells. Alongside medieval weapons and the quest-spawns option, this system allows a player or server admin to set up a game that is similar to rouge-like classics, in 3d, if he wishes. Other options include modern weapons and futuristic weapons. The amount of vehicles in the game has been expanded from five to over thirty. Additionally there is a buildable building system and a city generation system. Monsters are also supported and can be placed by the map author or spawned into a map via mutator. Furnishings can be built via the buildable-building system and/or placed by the map author. City-generation buildings can also be placed by the map author in addition to via the city-generation mutator. More in-depth information as to how to use these systems is included in the game on the Info page. The game now features a more-advanced damage calculation method for melee weapons; allowing for multiple regions of the target which modify the damage taken based on the type of weapon used.
Freedoom		2019-10-22	FPS	Freedoom Freedoom Genre FPS Latest release 0.12.1  (Announcement) Release date October 22th, 2019 Code license GPL Media license Modified BSD License Engine Doom Contribute Freedoom is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Freedoom is a project aimed to create a complete and free Doom IWAD file, which contains all game media. Combined with the GPLed Doom Source (such as PrBoom or GZDoom), this makes a completely Free (as in speech) game. Freedoom's data is licensed under the Modified BSD License.
Nexuiz		1st October 2009	First person shooter	First-person shooter games Nexuiz v2.5.2 Genre First person shooter Latest release 2.5.2 Release date 1st October 2009 Developers Forest Hale, Lee Vermeulen Code license GPL Media license GPL Engine DarkPlaces Contribute First-person shooter games is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage NOTE: This article refers to the original libre game “Nexuiz” created by AlienTrap from 2005. There's also a proprietary game called “Nexuiz” by IllFonic. This article is concerned with the libre game. Nexuiz (also called “Nexuiz Classic” for disambiguation) by AlienTrap is a multiplayer 3d first person arena shooter, based on Forest Hale's DarkPlaces engine.
OpenArena		2012-02-20	FPS	OpenArena Genre FPS Latest release 0.8.8  (Announcement) Release date February 20th, 2012 Developer OpenArena team Code license GPL version 2.0 Media license GPL version 2.0 Engine ioquake3 Contribute OpenArena is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. OpenArena is a FPS game intended to be a free replacement for the proprietary Quake III Arena. Both the media and the game are licensed under the GPLv2.. The OpenArena project was established on August 19, 2005, the day after the id Tech 3 GPL source code release. A "mission pack" add-on is also planned, to take advantage of the GPL'd Quake III: Team Arena source code. OpenArena is included in quite a few Linux distributions, including Fedora, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu and Mandriva.
Open Quartz		August 1st, 2004		Open Quartz Latest release 2004.08.01 Release date August 1st, 2004 Code license GPL Media license GPL Contribute Open Quartz is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Open Quartz is an implementation of the GPL Quake source, which includes data also under the GNU General Public License. The latest version of Open Quartz is 2004.08.01.
Openfrag		May 20th, 2008	FPS	Openfrag Openfrag Genre FPS Latest release 0.5 Release date May 20th, 2008 Code license GPLv2 P. language C++, Lua Contribute Openfrag is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Openfrag is a GPL medieval-themed open-source FPS currently in development written in C++ and Lua.The latest version of the game is the Demo 0.5 released on May 20th, 2008. Several Openfrag developers, and the Openfrag leader, have announced that they would be leaving the Openfrag project, however, the leader of the Bullets Project has said that the latter would like to continue the Openfrag Project.
Red Eclipse		2019-12-19	First‐person shooter	Red Eclipse Red Eclipse Genre First‐person shooter Latest release 2.0.0  (Announcement) Release date December 19th, 2019 Code license zlib Media license CC BY-SA 3.0 Engine Sauerbraten P. language C++ Library OpenGL Contribute Red Eclipse is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Chat Forum in-game map editor This article has been marked for deletion review by a wiki user. Discuss on the talk page Red Eclipse is a total conversion of Cube 2, featuring entirely free art under CC BY-SA 3.0 or a compatible license. It features many modes like deathmatch, free-for-all, and capture-the-flag. The game has a sci-fi theme and has gameplay similar to Quake-based arena games, with the notable omission of pickups. The game uses OpenGL. In the past there was a possibility of the game going commercial, so some files were labelled Omitted to default to the included license. It was decided that the default license will be CC BY-SA, so from then on Red Eclipse is completely libre and is now included in Debian main. Red Eclipse has been converted to the much more advanced Tesseract engine. Tesseract adds features such as dynamic lighting, improved mapmodel support, improved specular and normal map rendering, support for day/night versions, and more. An introduction to Tesseract's features can be found at its website.
Terminal Overload		2015-05-26	First‐person shooter	Terminal Overload Gameplay on a custom map in TOL 0.3.1, without the HUD. Genre First‐person shooter Latest release 0.7.0  (Announcement) Release date May 26th, 2015 Developer Michael "fr1tz" Goldener Code license MIT Media license CC-BY 4.0 Engine Torque3D P. language C++, TorqueScript Contribute Terminal Overload is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Chat Forum Terminal Overload (abbreviated TOL) is an experimental online multiplayer first-person shooter game. It is the free and open-source spiritual successor to Revenge Of The Cats: Ethernet and is currently in an early stage of development. The source code is licensed under the MIT license and all media assets are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. TOL's game logic is written in TorqueScript. The engine is a modified version of the MIT-licensed Torque3D game engine, which is written in C++.
Tremfusion		June 5th, 2009	FPS	First-person shooter games Genre FPS Latest release 0.99r2 Release date June 5th, 2009 Code license GPL Engine ioquake3 Contribute First-person shooter games is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Tremfusion is a FPS game that is the fork of Tremulous. The latest version of the game is 0.99r2 released on June 5th, 2009. The source code is licensed under the GPL. There is a page in the project’s wiki with the goal of summarizing and tracking the licenses of the content used in Tremulous, and then replacing the non-free content with free content.
Tremulous		March 31st, 2006	FPS	First-person shooter games Genre FPS Latest release 1.1 Release date March 31st, 2006 Code license GPL Media license CC BY-SA 2.5 Engine ioquake3 Contribute First-person shooter games is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Tremulous is a multiplayer first-person shooter licensed under the GPL. It's media is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license version 2.5. Tremulous uses the ioquake3 engine which is based upon id Tech 3. The latest version of Tremulous is 1.1 and was released on March 31th, 2006.
Uebergame		2018-12-14	First‐person shooter	Uebergame Genre First‐person shooter Latest release 1.1.2.0  (Announcement) Release date Dec 14, 2018 Developer Duion Code license MIT Media license CC0 Engine Torque3D P. language C++, TorqueScript Contribute Uebergame is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Development Project Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Chat the game logo Uebergame (or Übergame from german über meaning above) is a realistic shooter with modern graphics. It's goal is to provide a modern up to date, libre gaming platform for basic multiplayer shooter gameplay types, like deathmatch, team deathmatch, capture the flag etc taking part in different scenarios. The source code is licensed under the MIT license and the media assets are licensed under CC0 and MIT license license. The MIT licensed assets are derived from open sourced projects from garagegames, so they cannot be relicensed to CC0, but all other assets that get added are strictly under CC0 license. Uebergame's game logic is written in TorqueScript. The engine is a modified version of the MIT-licensed Torque3D game engine, which is written in C++.
Xonotic		2017-04-01	First‐person shooter Online Multiplayer	Xonotic Genre First‐person shooter Online Multiplayer Latest release 0.8.2  (Announcement) Release date Apr 1st, 2017 Developers Team Xonotic Code license GPLv3 Media license GPLv3 Engine Darkplaces P. languages QuakeC, C Libraries OpenGL, SDL, LibOGG, LibTheora, LibVorbis Contribute Xonotic is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Forum Xonotic is an first-person arena shooter, forked from Nexuiz. The game runs on the Darkplaces engine, based on Quake 1's engine. Gameplay is also based on Quake (mainly the competitive Quake III Arena), but Xonotic adds some unique touches (for example, the rockets fired from a rocket launcher can be guided with mouse). The gameplay is very fast-paced, and includes and encourages a form of bunny hopping as well as rocket jumping (in Xonotic "laser jumping" is more common). The art is mostly futuristic, but unofficial maps exist in a variety of styles. There are 16 different game modes (including the classics: deathmatch, team deathmatch and capture the flag, but including uncommon ones such as a type of football), 16 weapons with secondary fires, 18 official maps (and a lot of unofficial maps), and a complex HUD editor that lets you tailor the HUD to your exact preference. There are also so called mutators, that allow to slightly modify rules of each game mode. Xonotic features integrated player statistics. The XonStat system tracks a bunch of stats, including win/loss ratio, frag ratio and average accuracy.
Zauberer	no image		FPS	Zauberer Genre FPS Developer Eric Söderberg Code license GPL Media license 3-clause BSD Engine Hexen-based (vavoom, etc) Contribute Zauberer is a free game. This means that the source code is available to be studied, modified, and distributed. Most projects look for help with testing, documentation, graphics, etc., as well. Homepage Source Code Bug/Feature Tracker Zauberer is an FPS project whose initial goal is to serve as a Free data package for engines based on the GPLed Hexen source. The IWAD data is released under a 3-clause BSD license. Eric Söderberg aka "Cire" is the project maintainer.