The article discusses the current state of multiplayer shooters in 2025, highlighting the abundance of choices and the constant demand for attention from players. It explores the longevity of popular shooters and the strategies developers use to keep them fresh.
Gaze at the mountain of multiplayer shooters and tremble. I've long maintained that we're in a multiplayer golden age—there have never been shooters to choose from than we have right now, and most of them can be enjoyed entirely for free. If only anyone had the time. If I had to describe the state of competitive shooters in 2025, it would be attention-starved. Every shooter is good, but the Faustian bargain we make for this age of plenty is that every shooter is also demanding.
Battle passes, limited-time events, rotating stores, ranked resets—competitive shooters don't just want a spot in your gaming rotation, they want to be your years-long obsession.The biggest shooters are pushing 10 years, or well past it already The winners of the 2010s live service boom continue their long reign. In 2025, nearly every major shooter that was a big deal 8-10 years ago is still a big deal now.That fact gets more remarkable the more I think about it. Being a daily PUBG or Fortnite player in 2025 is equivalent to being a daily Halo 3 player in 2015, or a Quake 3 diehard in 2010. Of course, we've only stayed invested in the same shooters for so long because they change with the times. A byproduct of the modern shooter's unprecedented shelf life is getting to watch developers figure out how to make the old new again. Lately that's meant reworking classic maps, introducing new game modes, and iterating on core mechanics.Competitive FPS thankfully isn't a winner-take-all genre, but it is a landscape that favors these long-established figures—competitive games with ranked modes that inherently ask you to become more competent in them over time, and trading in your hundreds or thousands of hours of expertise for something new is a steep proposition. Two shooters pulled the plug in 2024 (more on that below), but one did manage to hit big.Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer tea
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