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
BZFlag		2022-03-08	Online Multiplayer FPS	BZFlag BZFlag Genre Online Multiplayer FPS Latest release 2.4.24  (Announcement) Release date March 8th, 2022 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 Available as a package in:   Slackware: bzflag  Arch AUR: bzflag  Debian: bzflag  Fedora: bzflag   Gentoo: games-action/bzflag  Ubuntu: bzflag  OpenSUSE: bzflag  Mageia: bzflag  Flatpak: org.bzflag.BZFlag  Snap: bzflag  24px FreeBSD: bzflag 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		2003-10-26	FPS	Balder3D Balder3D Screenshot 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.
Arena of Honour		2005-01-11	FPS	First-person shooter games Arena of Honour 0.83 Genre FPS Latest release 0.83 Release date January 11th, 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.
Tremfusion		2009-06-05	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.
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. Source Code Available as a package in:   Slackware: openarena  Debian: openarena  Fedora: openarena   Ubuntu: openarena  OpenSUSE: openarena  Mageia: openarena  Flatpak: ws.openarena.OpenArena  24px FreeBSD: openarena 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.
Freedoom		2019-10-22	FPS	Freedoom Freedoom Genre FPS Latest release 0.12.1  (Announcement) Release date October 22nd, 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 Available as a package in:   Arch AUR: freedoom   OpenSUSE: freedoom Freedoom is a project aimed to create complete and free Doom and Doom II IWAD files, as Phase One and Phase Two, both of which contains complete replacement 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.
Adanaxis		2020-10-03	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 1.5.14  (Announcement) Release date October 3rd, 2020 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. Source Code Adanaxis is a deep space first-person shooter game in four spatial dimensions, written by Andy Southgate. The latest version of the game is 1.5.14, released on October 3, 2020. It is written in the C++ programming language using the GLUT library.
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 Available as a package in:   Arch: xonotic   OpenSUSE: xonotic 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.
Nexuiz		1st October 2009	First person shooter	Featured Article This article has reached Featured Article status, which means that it has been recognized as one of the best articles on Libregamewiki. 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.
Blasphemer		2021-09-05	FPS	Blasphemer Genres FPS Latest release 0.1.7  (Announcement) Release date September 05, 2021 Developers G. Wessner, Jute Gyte Code license GPL Media license 3-clause BSD Engine Heretic-based (vavoom, Chocolate Doom, 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.
Zauberer			FPS	Zauberer Zauberer Logo Genre FPS Developer Eric Söderberg Code license GPL Media license ISC license Engine Hexen-based (vavoom, Chocolate Doom, 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 (German for "magician") 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 the ISC license, a variant of the 3-clause BSD license. Eric Söderberg aka "Cire" is the project maintainer.
Uebergame		2018-12-14	First‐person shooter	Uebergame Genre First‐person shooter Latest release 1.1.2.0  (Announcement) Release date Dec 14, 2018 Platforms Windows, Linux 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++.
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 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.
Open Quartz		2004-08-01		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 released Quake source, which includes data also under the GNU General Public License. The latest version of Open Quartz is 2004.08.01. This version features one level in single player, featuring difficulty selection portals and then a battle with tree monsters in a wide outdoor arena; multi-player map options are more extensive, with the option to add computer controlled bots.
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 Platforms Windows, Linux (experimental) 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++.
Openfrag		2008-05-20	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.
Chaos Esque Anthology		2022-01-03	1st person shooter	Chaos Esque Anthology Chaos Esque Anthology Genre 1st person shooter Latest release Rel_117zzzzzzzv_____  (Announcement) Release date Jan 03th, 2022 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.
Tremulous		2006-03-31	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. Available as a package in:   Arch AUR: tremulous  Fedora: tremulous   OpenSUSE: tremulous  Mageia: tremulous  Flatpak: com.grangerhub.Tremulous  24px FreeBSD: tremulous 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.
IMaze		2001-12-10	FPS	iMaze iMaze Genre FPS Latest release 1.4 Release date December 10, 2001 Developer Hans-Ulrich Kiel and Joerg Czeranski Code license BSD license Media license BSD license P. language C Library X11 Contribute iMaze 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 iMaze is a multiplayer first-person shooter first released on May 27, 1994 as a clone of the proprietary game MIDI Maze for the Atari ST. Built directly atop X11, it was last updated in 2001 and is under the original four-clause BSD license. It also has optional bots called Ninjas.
Potato Killer		2011-06-29	FPS	Potato Killer Potato Killer Genre FPS Latest release 1.0 Release date June 29, 2011 Developer Vitaliy "kuviman" Kudasov Code license GNU General Public License 3 Media license GNU General Public License 3 P. language Python 2.6 Library PyOpenGL, pygame Contribute Potato Killer 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 Potato Killer (also styled as PotatoKiller) is a single player swarm-based first-person shooter where the player uses throwing knives to fend off hoards of killer potatoes. The objective is to last long enough to set a new high score. It is part of Vitaliy "kuviman" Kudasov's Sampleman series of games.
DUGA		2018-08-25	FPS	DUGA DUGA Genre FPS Latest release 1.0 Release date August 25th, 2018 Developer Maxwell Salmon Code license Mozilla Public License 2.0 Media license Mozilla Public License (graphics), Creative Commons Attribution (sounds) P. language Python 3 Library pygame Contribute DUGA 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 DUGA is a procedurally generated first-person shooter based on a raycasting engine (similar to Wolfenstein 3D) built with pygame. It is available on itch.io under a pay what you want model, with the source code accessible on GitHub. It was first released as a three level tech demo on December 10, 2017, followed by a 1.0 release on August 25, 2018 which featured procedural levels as well as a level editor. It only has binaries for Windows and macOS, but can be ran from source on other systems supported by Python.
Yet Another Doom Clone		2019-09-13	FPS	Yet Another Doom Clone Yet Another Doom Clone Genre FPS Release date September 3, 2019 Developer Nicholas Carlini Code license GNU General Public License 3 Media license GNU General Public License 3 P. language JavaScript Library WebGL Contribute Yet Another Doom Clone 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 Yet Another Doom Clone is a minimalist first-person shooter written in 13k of JavaScript using WebGL.
Anarch		2021-02-22	FPS	Anarch Anarch Genre FPS Latest release 1.02  (Announcement) Release date Feb 22, 2021 Developer Drummyfish Code license CC0 Media license CC0 Engine raycastlib P. language C Contribute Anarch 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 Anarch is a completely public domain, free software, suckless 90s-style anarcho-pacifist Doom-like libre game. It was created by drummyfish, completely from scratch. The game's aim is to experiment with a different game development philosophy.
Awkaster		2017-7-23	FPS	Awkaster Awkaster Genre FPS Latest release 43826af Release date July 23, 2017 Developer Fedor 'TheMozg' Kalugin Code license MIT license Media license MIT license P. language AWK Contribute Awkaster 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 Awkaster is a text-mode raycaster written in the AWK scripting language. It features a turn-based first-person shooter game where the player defends themselves from red balls while seeking an elevator to escape the maze which generates after 1000 moves.
Unvanquished		2021-06-20	FPS, RTS	Unvanquished Mantis alien on Perseus map Genre FPS, RTS Latest release 0.52.1  (Announcement) Release date June 20th, 2021 Platforms Linux, Windows, Mac Code license GPL Media licenses various licences (MIT, CC-0, CC-By 3.0, CC-By-Sa 3.0) https://wiki.unvanquished.net/wiki/Asset_Licenses Engine Dæmon Contribute Unvanquished 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 Chat Forum Available as a package in:   Arch AUR: unvanquished   Flatpak: net.unvanquished.Unvanquished Unvanquished, fork of Tremulous, is a multiplayer first-person shooter licensed under the GPL. Unvanquished uses the Dæmon engine which is based upon id Tech 3. The latest version of Unvanquished is 0.52.0 and was released on May 14th, 2021.
Warfork	no image	2021-07-26	First-person shooter games	Warfork Genre First-person shooter games Latest release Unnumbered  (Announcement) Release date July 26th, 2021 Platforms Windows, Mac, Linux Code license GPLv2 Media license CC0, CC-BY-SA Engine qfusion Contribute Warfork 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 Warfork is a fork of Warsow with (optionally) Free assets and code. This page is a stub. Please help Libregamewiki by expanding it.
SF Mech Simulator		2021-10-17	FPS	SF Mech Simulator Genre FPS Latest release 1.0.0  (Announcement) Release date October 17th, 2021 Platforms Mac, Windows, Linux Developer Droog71 Code license GPLv3 Media licenses CC-BY, CC0 P. language C++ Contribute SF Mech Simulator 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 SF Mech Simulator is a pseudo-3D first-person mech combat game. Fight other mechs, repair and upgrade between battles. This page is a stub. Please help Libregamewiki by expanding it.
Quetoo		2021-04-08	FPS	Ouetoo Genre FPS Latest release 0.1.0 Release date April 8, 2021 Developer Quetoo Code license GPL version 2.0 Media license CC BY-SA 4.0 Engine id Tech 2 Contribute Ouetoo 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 Available as a package in:   Flatpak: org.quetoo.Quetoo  24px FreeBSD: quetoo Quetoo is a first-person shooter deathmatch game based on the id Tech 2 engine. Formerly known as Quake2World, it is meant to provide a modern free software equivalent to the multiplayer gameplay of Quake II. It is currently multiplayer only and does not feature computer controlled bots. The project also hosts a compatible source port for the original Quake II game data, forked from Quake2Forge.

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