2025 has been a bumper year for FPS games – the kind of year that makes you look at your backlog, sigh deeply, and accept that you're just never finishing anything ever again. It's been a year where even the weird experimental shooters have been good, and long-running franchises have come good after years in the wilderness. Our list of best FPS games for 2025 stretches in every direction: tighter, faster arena shooters; big-budget bombast; extraction shooters refining their brutal little loops; and narrative blasters that hit harder than you expect.
These are the five FPS games that defined 2025; the ones that stuck with us. They're smart, sharp, messy, stylish, occasionally infuriating, but always compelling. These games that understand the fantasy at the heart of the FPS: pointing something that goes bang at something that needs to fall over, and somehow turning that simple loop into comforting video game junk food.
