20 Best Multiplayer Shooter Games on Steam

Ark: Survival of the Fittest (also known as Ark: Sotf) is a F2P, Open World, First-person Shooter, Survival, and Multiplayer video game with Battle Royale twist developed and published by Studio Wildcard. The game combines the MMORPG, and Survival Arena elements and serves as the spin-off of the Ark: Survival Evolved game. The game features up to seventy-two combatants in the fast-paced and action-packed gameplay where the players are pushed into the massive showdown with a task to come out alive by killing all opponents. The player assumes the role of the survivors and the survivor and team up with up to six-person tribes with the choice to select official and unofficial servers. The player starts the game with a forest environment where he must survive by collecting items, crafting weapons, and battling enemies. More than thirty creatures are available in the game, and the game introduces multiple modes such as 1 vs.1, 2 vs.2, 4 vs.4, and 6 vs. 6. Evolution Events, Robust Ranking, Multiple Modes, 30 Creatures, Survival Gameplay, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Counter-Strike is a fast-paced and action-filled tactical FPS (First Person Shooter) video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. The game offers a war-based action and thrilling gameplay and features a competitive and challenging environment, a great and appealing storyline, and enhanced graphics. It presents a player-controlled protagonist who acts alone or can lead teams of characters like himself and engages in combats with the hostiles in a war-based environment.

Due to the multiplayer nature of the game series, players on a network or globally using the internet can play as teams or on opposite sides as enemies. In addition, it provides various world maps, team-based and vehicular warfare, and a unique experience of first-first-person gaming. You’ll definitely enjoy playing it.

Max Payne 3 is a super Action-Thriller Third-Person Shooter video game by Rockstar Studios. The game is set in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil and features the one and only New York City detective Max Payne as the main protagonist. Max flees to Sao Paulo and starts working as a Private Security Contractor after the dismissal from NYPD and killing the son of a local mob boss. In Sao Paulo, Max gets stuck deep into a quest filled with Treachery and Fatality and the real action begins. Max Payne 3 continues the story of Max’s hardcore adventures from where it took a pause in Max Payne 2. This Film-Noir and cinematic action-filled video game feature a great story, action-packed game-play and state of the art graphics along with 3 super-engaging Chapters, Arcade Mode, Multiplayer gaming mode, a lot of Collectibles and a huge range of Weapons. Max Payne 3 is no doubt a great blend of Action and Shooting elements that totally leaves you spellbound for a good amount of time. With all the action and Drama presented in the game is one amazing Action Thriller to enjoy.

Left 4 Dead 2 is a Zombie, Horror Survival video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. Left 4 Dead 2 is a First-person Shooter video game set on a global scale, infected by the Green Flu which is responsible to transform humans into extremely aggressive and deadly zombies. The story of the game revolves around the four survivors Coach, Ellis, Nick and Rochelle who are immune to the flu. In order to survive they travel from place to place items like food, medicines, weapons etc. You can choose one of the characters as protagonist and play the game. Because of being the main character of the game you act as their leader. The game allows you to use different firearms and melee weapons according to the scenario on a specific point in the game. For example if you encounter a zombie or multiple in the shape of hordes, you can engage in close combats using melee weapons, and if you are on a safe distance you can use guns like Pistols or snipers to shoot down the zombies. The game provides you with a multiplayer gaming mode, so you can play with other online players too. You also get to play 5 campaigns, in which you get provided with safe houses and check points and a goal to survive till the end of the campaign. Left 4 Dead 2 is an amazingly addictive and quite thrilling game with a super action and adventure packed game-play. Left 4 Dead 2 is available to play on Windows, Mac, Xbox, Steam and Linux platforms.

Team Fortress 2 is a wonderfully engaging Single and Multiplayer FPS video game by Valve Corporation that allows you to join one of the two mercenary teams, select your character from 9 main classes (Scouts, Soldiers, Pyro, Demomen, Heavy, Engineer, Medic, Sniper and Spy) and battle against the enemies by using state of the art weaponry and tactics. The objective of the game is to protect the company assets owned by two brothers who are in conflict with one another and they have hired a number of mercenaries to eliminate the other side and to seize control of the company. You can select any side and act accordingly in order to eliminate your enemies and win the epic combats. Team Fortress 2 offers wonderfully engaging game modes such as Capture the Flag, King of the Hill, Deathmatch, team Deathmatch etc. and allows you to use different weapons and tactics to kill the enemies. With a great deal of DLC, upgrades, loads of amazing Perks, great visual details and a thrilling game-play, Team Fortress 2 offers a wonderful FPS gaming experience.

Realm of the Mad God is an MMOFPS video game by Deca games. The game offers a Multiplayer Shooting elements as well and allows the players to enjoy the fantastic combination of Co-op and Bullet-hell gaming. Realm of the Mad God offers 8-bit pixelated visual Art style and lets the players control multiple player characters who have been transferred to the Realm of Oryx. The Characters are actually there to be the food of always hungry minions of the titular entity. The death of all the characters is permanent, but after death, the player rises again with all of the blazing weapons that can be stored in player’s weapon inventory. All the player has to do is to free himself and others from this godforsaken world and to that they must fight off all of the minions and gory monsters unleashed by the Titular entity. Realm of the Mad God lets the players start blazing the guns the minute after they wake up again. Players can use various weapons and make perfect projectiles of bullets to neutralize the enemies and to earn experience points, fame, and upgrades. With amazingly easy controls, the game allows the players to move in the game world by using the WASD keys on the keyboards mouse to aim and shoot. Realm of the Mad God also awards the players with experience points for killing the monsters and allows them to teleport from one place to another and enjoy a truly remarkable and fast-paced gameplay. Players can level themselves up by earning more and more experience points and when they are at the maximum level of expertise they can go against the more powerful enemies and unlock cool upgrades and classes. With all the amazing PvP fun and Guild fighting, Realm of the Mad God lets the players build their own guilds, and go against over fifty online players, eliminate the targets and enjoy playing a remarkable MMORPG, and shooting video game.

Counter-Strike: Source is a Military-based, First-person Shooter and Multiplayer video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. The game revolves around the battle between counter-terrorist teams and terrorists in a series of levels. Each level is won by eliminating all soldiers of the opponent team to by accomplishing an objective. You can take on the role of the protagonist and can create your team with other real players around the world and your ultimate task is to complete the objectives such as rescuing all hostages, defusing the bomb, and slaughter all members of the enemy team. As the game proceed, it becomes challenging and it unlocks other features and content to play and enjoy. Each character equips with a variety of weapons that he can use against enemies. Manipulate the environment from the first-person perspective and fulfill your tasks to prove yourself as the best soldier. With enhanced mechanics, addictive gameplay, and brilliant visuals, Counter-Strike: Source is the best game to play.

Left 4 Dead is a Single and Multiplayer Horror-Survival and First-person Shooter video game by Valve Corporation. The game takes place in a world deeply drowned in the aftermath of a massive Apocalyptic Pandemic that leaves the world in despair. The game features four characters as the Survivors and allows the players to control them while battling against the hordes of Infected Zombie like creatures. Left 4 Dead offers four main game modes such as Single Player Mode, Co-Op Mode, Versus Mode, and Survival Mode. In Single-player mode, players can control one character out of the four, and the other are controlled by the game AI (Artificial Intelligence). In Co-Op mode players can join the game in Co-Op mode and engage in the campaign, Versus Mode allows the players to enjoy the game with eight players, and the Survival mode lets the players survive in the game as four differently controlled players. Left 4 Dead offers a First-person perspective gameplay in which it allows the players to use different types of weapons such as Pistols, Pipe Bombs, Molotov Cocktails, Dual Wield weapons, etc. along with a first-aid kit, and mini guns. Left 4 Dead offers both Long distance and Melee combats and that makes the gameplay more interesting because while melee attacking the infected, players can use Melee weapons as well. With an absorbing story, addictive gameplay, clean 3D visuals and all the Zombie shooting fun, Left 4 Dead is a great Horror-Survival and Shooting video game to play and enjoy.

PayDay 2 is First-person Shooter, Tactical Co-operative Multiplayer and Stealth video game. Game kicks off after the events of its predecessor PayDay and introduces a New Gang of Washington D.C. The game allows you to be a member of that Gang and go heisting banks, robbing Jewelry Shops, stealing Cars, Distributing Narcotics and stealing whatever you want in Washington D.C. along with 2 AI players or team up with friends and enjoy amazing Co-Operative Multiplayer gaming. With an Action-packed game-play and all the super thriller nature, PayDay 2 is a blast. If you love playing games like PayDay 2, the following Action-packed titles would definitely be of your great interest. Let’s have a look at some of the best alternatives to PayDay 2.

Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction is a wonderfully Intense Action-Adventure, Co-Op Multiplayer, Stealth and Shooter video game. The game allows you to enjoy once more the great adventures of Sam Fisher as he tries to investigate the death of his own Daughter. This investigation leads him to the knowledge about the betrayal of his former agency and Sam vows to destroy everyone responsible. On the other hand Sam is bound to make a deadly terrorist plan fail or millions of people will perish. With an amazingly hardcore Action, enhanced weapons inventory, and a brilliant backstory, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction offers a chance to experience one of the most thrilling gameplays ever and lets you take out the worst enemies and operatives in a very dangerous world. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction offers great visuals, a brilliantly immersive gameplay and a wonderful story to get yourself engaged with. Do try it out, it’s a blast.

Robocraft is a free-to-play, Action, Vehicular Combat, Physics-based, and Third-person Shooter Simulation created by Freejam Games. The game supports both Single and Multiplayer modes and combines the elements of strategy, crafting and building. It takes place in the fictional world consists of different planets. The game embarks you on an adventure where you must create your robots and fight against other robots in battle. You can construct powerful vehicles and craft weapons with blocks. It has different modes such as Test, the Pit, League Arena, Team Deathmatch, Battle Arena, AI Bots Deathmatch, and more. Earn experience points by defeating your enemies and use to unlock further content. You can play over five players in Multiplayer mode and can compete against each other to show your driving skills. Robocraft includes features such as up to Fifty Cubes, Enemy Robots, Create or Join Clans, Share your Creation, and more. With 3D Environment, addictive gameplay, superb mechanics, and brilliant controls, Robocraft is a wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is an Action-Adventure, First-person Shooter, Single and Multiplayer video game created by Turtle Rock Studios and published by Valve Corporation. It is a follow-up to Counter-Strike video game and features Multiplayer Mode, updated Character Models, Maps, Textures, Single-player Campaign and more. The game lets you assume the role of the protagonist who is a part of military and revolves around his struggle to fight against terrorist to save his world. You can explore the environment from first-person perspective and use a variety of military-based weapons such as machine gun, sniper rifle, a pistol, grenades, rocket launcher and more. There are a series of missions available and the game features up to twelve new missions in Single-player campaign. You can navigate open world environment and can compete against other players around the globe in Multiplayer mode. As the game progresses, other features, weapons and content will be unlocked. You can collect power-ups and ammo during exploration and can upgrade your weapons using experience points. Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is the best game as compared to other FPS games.

Counter Strike: Global Offensive or shortly abbreviated as CS: GO is an Online Multiplayer Tactical First Person Shooter Video game by Valve Corporation. Released back in 2012, the game offers amazing amounts of classic content such as new maps, characters, and game modes, cross-platform multiplayer game-play, regular updates and a huge amount of DLC. With an amazingly immersive objective-based multiplayer FPS game-play, Counter Strike: Global Offensive lets you join the teams (Counter-Terrorist Force or the Terrorists) and eliminate your enemies by the use of sophisticated weaponry and Tactics. Counter Strike: Global Offensive offers a number of fantastic and quite addictive game modes such as Classic Casual, Competitive, Bomb Scenario, Hostage Scenario, Arms Race, Demolition, Deathmatch etc. Furthermore, the game allows you to play the game offline with bots and enjoy all the fun. The Online Play option lets you go against your enemies, be part of a team and keep on enjoying the game. With a unique matchmaking system, Online game availability via Steam, Anti Cheat system, Dedicated Servers, Unique Elo Rating System, beautiful visuals and an addictive gameplay entertaining millions of online players, Counter Strike: Global Offensive is one of the most played and well liked game in the Counter Strike series.

Cortex Command is a Side-scroll, 2D, Action, Single and Multiplayer Shooting video game developed and published by Data Realms LLC. The game takes place in the stunning environment and lets you get into the role of a stationary to complete a set of objectives. According to the story, the game world is invaded by zombies and your main task is to control a protagonist named Chip throughout levels and fight against zombies using different weapons. You must protect the brain, if the brain goes week you must gather resources, guarding the brain, collect gold and fend off foes. Explore the game world, use different weapons, and score the highest points to the victory. It has a set of levels that you must complete at any cost. Use your points to upgrade your weapons, and units. With superb gameplay, detailed environment, and brilliant mechanics, Cortex Command is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Infestation: The New Z is an Action-Adventure, Massively Multiplayer Online, Open World and Role-playing video game with Horror-Survival and Battle Royale elements developed by Fredaikis AB. The game offers a huge environment and features a dynamic player versus player experience in multiple modes and environments. There are different playable characters available and the player has to select one of them to customize and jump into the competitive world where he has to battle against enemies to crush them and remain the last survival. In the game, the player can explore the world from a first-person view with friends, scavenge for loot and battle players to win. The player navigates the environment either on foot or by vehicle, bus, and other convince to kill zombies and communicate other players. A unique Battle Royale mode also available in the game for unique experience, where the ultimate task of the player is to be the last standing man by finding items, random airdrops, and killing other players. Infestation: The New Z includes prominent features such as Survival, Customization, Play with Friends, Discover lots of Armors, Weapons and Melees, PvP Mode, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Insurgency is a great addition to the Action, FPS and RPG genres. The game offers Brilliant MMO aesthetics and lets you engage yourself into epic Team-based encounters with the enemies. You can select your teams (U.S. Marines or Insurgents), Use your amazing Tactical Skills to lead your teams, use state of the art and advanced weapons to eliminate your enemies and complete the exciting game objectives. Insurgency lets you be part of a 16 member team in which you can choose a player class from a number of choices (Rifleman, Support, Gunner, Engineer, Marksman etc.), get into the play and drop some enemies. Insurgency offers brilliantly easy controls, cool visuals and an addictive game-play all made blasting with 20 types of different weapons, 27 different game maps, 9 Multiplayer game modes, 4 Co-Op Multiplayer Modes, Offline practice Mode, loads of upgrades and custom map creation options. Insurgency is one of the mega hits of this specific genre and it’ll definitely entertain you good.

Serious Sam 3: BFE is a single and multiplayer First-person Shooter video game that takes place in a futuristic era of 22nd century in Egypt. Serious Sam 3: BFE allows you to engage yourself in a fast-paced and action-packed game-play and fight against the huge numbers of enemies in an open world. You can have all the traditional and futuristic weapons you want and kill the enemies by strategic assaults and counter attacks. Different types of enemies show different levels of resistance so choice of weapons matters a lot. On every enemy kill, game awards you with experience points that can be used to buy upgrades. The core game-play of Serious Sam 3: BFE greatly resembles to the one on Serious Sam and allows you to experience and amazing blend of futuristic and old gaming environments and settings. Being a great shooter game with a super-fast and addictive game-play, this game will surely provide you with an amazing experience of FPS gaming.

The Culling is a Fast-paced Action and Multiplayer Battle Royal style First-person Combat and Shooter video game by Xaviant. Released recently in 2016, The Culling offers the most thrilling and quite engaging gameplay to enjoy. According to the gameplay and the Unique Story of the game, The Culling takes the players to a Small deserted Island filled with various types of buildings. To progress through the game, The Culling lets the players explore the Island, traverse through the Caves, Poison Gas pits, and in between the Landmine fields and lanes of Explosive Barrels, etc. The game tasks the players to complete various types of tasks in an open world environment. The tasks that the players have to complete include Living for a While Travelling to certain distances interacting with the objects and loads of other things in the environment, etc. While completing the Tasks, the players receive F.U.N.C (Game Currency) that the players can use to Craft items, purchase various types of items, and buy upgrades and stuff. The Culling also allows the players to receive perks via Air Drops, combine them to have different types of combinations and use them against the enemies. These unique Combinations are called Builds, and the players are allowed to make millions of unique Builds, using the perks they have. With a very interesting gameplay and all the uniqueness in details, fantastic Perks and beautifully created graphics; The Culling is one of the few Multiplayer Battle Royale games that provide with quality gaming. Do try it out, The Culling is fun to play.

Mercenary Kings is another great title that offers aesthetics similar to Contra series games and provides with a brillian Action filled Shooting and Run and Gun experience. This addictive Action, Side-Scrolling, Run and Gun video game offers fantastic Crafting options and allows you to loot whatever you want. Mercenary Kings features beautiful old school combat system similar to the one in award winning Metal Slug, Contra and Monster Hunter series and offers action-packed encounters with enemies and bosses. Interaction with NPCs, Crafting weapons and other items, multiple challenging game missions, Multiplayer Co-op support, brilliant visuals and an immersive game-play, Mercenary Kings is a fun game to play.

Splinter Cell or also known as “Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell” is an award-winning series of Action, RPG, Shooter and Stealth video games. The series offers a number of popular titles and keeps on with the standards that every game in the series offers. The Splinter Cell series offers biggest hits such as Blacklist and Conviction packed with all the blasting action, unique mechanics, and countless new elements. Throughout the series, Splinter Cell offers versatility in gameplay, new stories, new characters and offers plenty of room for the gameplay. The games in Splinter Cell series tend to provide with all kinds of futuristic environments, gadgets, and weapons as well as various types of enemies and stories related to them. Providing with both single and multiplayer games, Splinter Cell offers loads of cool upgrades, and co-op modes as well. The series provides with the character of Sam Fisher as the protagonist who works for the Black-ops Subdivision known as “Third Echelon.” The players are allowed to control Fisher and help him sabotage the plans of his enemies. With a tag of Critically Acclaimed and Commercially Successful Action and Stealth series, Splinter Cell focuses on providing with the quality gaming that every diehard fan of Action and Stealth gaming seeks. A new game of the series is in development phases. Hopefully, it would be as great as the previous titles and would offer loads of hours of unlimited entertainment.