Best First Person Shooters

Team Fortress 2 is a free-to-play team-based first-person shooter multiplayer video game developed by Valve Corporation. A sequel to the original mod Team Fortress based on the Quake engine, it was first released as part of the video game compilation The Orange Box on October 10, 2007 for Windows... Platforms: Windows

Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition provides a complete integrated development and debugging environment making it the easiest way to create powerful applications using the C/C++ language. Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition also contains an enhanced version of the C/C++ optimizing compiler for the... Platforms: Windows

A cheerful first person virtual shooting range with a user-friendly gameplay. The scene takes place in the near future in the territory of a fictitious country. In order to increase his crops, a farmer decides to use a new experimental substance to enlarge the size of fruits and vegetables and... Platforms: Windows

Capital Caveman is a first person boxing-fighter game with lots of pain and gore. Play across different regions in increasingly challenging fightings as you prove yourself as the Capital Caveman. Use arrow keys left and right to punch your enemies or use weapons, hold space bar to block. Have... Platforms: Windows

Arabian Flights is a 3d first-person shooter developed in Java using the Java3D library. It is loosely based on the game Magic Carpet. It consits of a 3d-modelled landscape and sprites for the monsters and spells. It runs under anything that runs Java3D. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Arx Libertatis is a cross-platform, open source port of Arx Fatalis, a 2002 first-person role-playing game developed by Arkane Studios. Arx Fatalis features crafting, melee and ranged combat, as well as a unique casting system where the player draws runes in real time to effect the desired... Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

AssaultCube, formerly ActionCube, is a free first-person-shooter based on the game Cube. Set in a realistic looking environment, while gameplay stays fast and arcade. This game is all about team oriented multiplayer fun. Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

An old-style party-based first-person 3D fantasy CRPG, inspired by Wizardy 7. Escape From The Maze ships with a playable default campaign and a detailed campaign editor. The default campaign database contains 30 character classes, 12 playable races (and three genders), over 800 items, over 200... Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge is a first-person action shooter game that combines time travel to take the player through the jurassic period, camelot period, and into the future chasing down Morgana. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Linux Wrath is a rpg/first person shooter Goal: destroy targets. Created at aueb for the computer graphics course and took us 2 weeks to complete (we were 2 people). Project at: http://code.google.com/p/linuxwrath/ Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

MILT is designed to facilitate research in imitation learning through first-person computer games. Featuring strategic, tactical and reactive modules, it allows developers to work with their preferred games or take advantage of integrated Quake2 support. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Metal Warriors is mix of a first person action and a real time strategy game. The game takes place in a vast 3D landscape where different teams battle each other with tanks, either on a network or turn-based on a single machine. Platforms: Mac, Linux

Odamex is a free (as in speech and if you're lucky, beer) client/server multiplayer engine for the classic first-person-shooter Doom. Odamex's goal is to emulate the classic feel of the original, while offering many new aspects to multiplayer Doom Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

Planet Hazard is open source multiplayer first person shooter. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

The aim of REAL is to develop a close to real life tactical combat simulation with a high level of realizm based on 3D first person shooter. The first stage of the project will be focused on developing a small engine and level editor. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

A single-player and multi-player first-person ego-shooter, built on Cube Engine 2, which lends itself toward a balanced gameplay, completely at the control of map makers, while maintaining a general theme of agility in a variety of environments. Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

Smokin' Guns is a GPLv2 licensed first person Western style shooter based on the Quake 3 engine (Id Tech 3) developed by a loosely knit team of developers and artists. This project represents the game engine. Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Solaris, Linux

Unit 85: a first-person shooter, developed as a casual game. It will hopefully become a mission based, 007-style, multiplayer game. The intent is to release this game on a large scale, if it ever gets far enough. It may end up as a simple web-based game. Platforms: Mac, BSD

A first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core. Amnesia: The Dark Descent puts you in the shoes of Daniel as he wakes up in a desolate castle, barely remembering anything about his past. Exploring the... Platforms: Mac

Now gamers can play the games they want, on whatever platform they want! With CrossOver Games, you can run many popular Windows games on your Intel OS X Mac or Linux PC. Whatever your tastes... first-person shooters, fantasy, strategy, MMORPGs... CrossOver Games provides the capability to run... Platforms: Mac