NOTE: This video is an updated version of an earlier video posted to this channel; some titles were removed and a whole bunch more have been added!
The First Person Shooter was a staple of PC gaming throughout the 90s. However, for every mega success like Doom or Quake, there were dozens that didn’t gain anywhere the near same attention, falling into obscurity. In this video, we take a look at 100 PC First Person Shooters that have been mostly forgotten or remain unknown to most modern PC gamers!
For the observant amongst you, there is a Steam Key hidden somewhere in this video. If you see it, claim it – but please post a comment letting us know that you did it, and telling us what it was!
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COMPLETE GAMELIST WITH TIMESTAMPS
1990 – Hoverforce (Astral Software – 1990) 00:00:05
1990 – Infestation (Psygnosis – 1990) 00:00:17
1990 – Xenocide (Pangea Software – 1990) 00:00:29
1991 – Corporation (Core Design – 1991) 00:00:41
1991 – Hovertank One (iD Software – 1991) 00:00:53
1991 – Terminator, The (Bethesda Software – 1991) 00:01:05
1992 – Robocop 3 (DID – 1992) 00:01:17
1993 – Bram Stoker's Dracula (TAG – 1993) 00:01:29
1993 – Curse of the Catacombs (Froggman – 1993) 00:01:41
1993 – In Extremis (Blue Sphere – 1993) 00:01:53
1993 – Island Peril (Electric Fantasies – 1993) 00:02:05
1993 – Isle of the Dead (Rainmaker Software – 1993) 00:02:17
1993 – Ken's Labyrinth (Advanced Systems – 1993) 00:02:29
1993 – Lethal Tender (Pie in the Sky Software – 1993) 00:02:41
1993 – Shadowcaster (Raven Software – 1993) 00:02:53
1993 – Specter VR (Velocity Inc) 00:03:05
1993 – Terminator Rampage (Bethesda – 1993) 00:03:17
1994 – Corridor 7 (Capstone – 1994) 00:03:29
1994 – CyClones (Raven Software – 1994) 00:03:41
1994 – Depth Dwellers (Trisoft – 1994) 00:03:53
1994 – Euijeok_Im Kkeokjeong (Accend Inc – 1994) 00:04:05
1994 – Fortress of Dr. Radiaki, The (Future Vision – 1994) 00:04:17
1994 – Freaks (Lovecraft Dreams – 1994) 00:04:29
1994 – Hidden Below, The (Soft Enterprises – 1994) 00:04:41
1994 – Nitemare 3D (Gray Design Associates – 1994) 00:04:53
1994 – Operation Bodycount (Capstone – 1994) 00:05:05
1994 – Red Babe (Dark Cavern Productions – 1994) 00:05:17
1994 – Terminal Terror (Pie in the Sky Software – 1994) 00:05:29
1995 – Bloodwing_Pumpkinheads's Revenge (Bap Interactive – 1995) 00:05:41
1995 – Cybermage_Darklight Awakening (Origin Systems – 1995) 00:05:53
1995 – Dungeons of Kremlin (Gelios – 1995) 00:06:05
1995 – HURL (Millenium Media Group – 1995) 00:06:17
1995 – I.M. Meen (Animation Magic) 00:06:29
1995 – Ice & Fire (AnimaTek) 00:06:41
1995 – In Pursuit of Greed (Mind Shear Software – 1995) 00:06:53
1995 – Iron Assault (Graffiti – 1995) 00:07:05
1995 – Mortal Coil_Adrenaline Intelligence (Crush Ltd – 1995) 00:07:17
1995 – Nerves of Steel (Merit Studios – 1995) 00:07:29
1995 – Old Gold (Gelios – 1995) 00:07:41
1995 – Tekwar (Capstone – 1995) 00:07:53
1995 – Virus Explosion (NAVIGO Multimedia Produktions KG – 1995) 00:08:05
1995 – Wrath of Earth (Addix Software Development – 1995) 00:08:17
1996 – Angst_Rahzs Revenge (ManMachineGames – 1996) 00:08:29
1996 – Ashes to Ashes (Deep River Pubishing – 1996) 00:08:41
1996 – Assassin 2015 (Bluesky Software – 1996) 00:08:53
1996 – Bust Hillary 3D (Tenkiller Inc – 1996) 00:09:05
1996 – Chill Manor (Animation Magic) 00:09:17
1996 – Cyberdillo (Pixel Technologies – 1996) 00:09:29
1996 – Cylindrix (Goldtree Enterprises – 1996) 00:09:41
1996 – Eradicator (Accolade – 1996) 00:09:53
1996 – Hamster's Adventure (Laser Point – 1996) 00:10:05
1996 – Metal Rage_Defender of the Earth (Titus France – 1996) 00:10:17
1996 – Rebel Moon (Fenris Wolf – 1996) 00:10:29
1996 – Rex Blade – The Apocalypse (Xtreme Games – 1996) 00:10:41
1996 – Strife (Rogue Entertainment – 1996) 00:10:53
1996 – Westworld 2000 (Brooklyn Multimedia – 2006) 00:11:05
1996 – Witchhaven II_Blood Vengeance (Capstone – 11996) 00:11:17
1996 – XS (SCI Games – 1996) 00:11:29
1996 – ZPC (Zombie LLC – 1996) 00:11:41
1997 – Alien Cabal (QA Soft – 1997) 00:11:53
1997 – Alpha Storm (TAG – 1997) 00:12:05
1997 – Chasm_The Rift (Action Forms – 1997) 00:12:17
1997 – Chex Quest 2_Flemoids Take Chextropolis (Digital Cafe – 1997) 00:12:29
1997 – Defiance (Logicware – 1997) 00:12:41
1997 – Forbes Corporate Warrior (Brooklyn Multimedia – 1997) 00:12:53
1997 – HACX_Twitch and Kill (Banjo Sofrtware – 1997) 00:13:05
1997 – Last Rites (Ocean Software – 1997) 00:13:17
1997 – Lifeforce Tenka (Psygnosis – 1997) 00:13:29
1997 – Madspace_To Hell And Beyond (Maddox Games – 1997) 00:13:41
1997 – Malice (Team Epochalypse – 1997) 00:13:53
1997 – Mars3D – (Engine Technology CO.LTD – 1997) 00:14:05
1997 – Necrodome (Raven Software – 1997) 00:14:17
1997 – Operation Omega (Pro One Software – 1997) 00:14:29
1997 – Quiver (ADvertainment Software – 1997) 00:14:41
1997 – Smuta_Living Dead (Gelios – 1997) 00:14:53
1997 – X-Men_Ravages of Apocalypse (Zero Gravity – 1997) 00:15:05
1998 – Abyss, The_Incident At Europa (Sound Source Interactive – 1998) 00:15:17
1998 – Damage Incorporated (Paranoid Productions – 1998) 00:15:29
1998 – Extreme PaintBrawl (Creative Carnage – 1998) 00:15:41
1998 – Incidente em Varginha (Perceptum – 1998) 00:15:53
1998 – Juggernaut The New Story (Canopy Games – 1998) 00:16:05
1998 – Liquidator (Partizan Software – 1998) 00:16:17
1998 – Mr. Pibb_The 3D Interactive Game (Brand Games – 1998) 00:16:29
1998 – Osarium (Stratos – 1998) 00:16:41
1998 – Sword of Ares, The (Seth Galbraith – 1998) 00:16:53
1998 – Target (DeLyric Games – 1998) 00:17:05
1998 – Tyrannizer (Viper Bytes – 1998) 00:17:17
1998 – Z.A.R. (Maddox Games – 1998) 00:17:29
1999 – Codename Eagle (Refraction Games AB – 1999) 00:17:41
1999 – Escape (Ben Glick – 1999) 00:17:53
1999 – Exploding Lips (Galaxy Games – 1999) 00:18:05
1999 – Hades 2 (Espaco Informatica – 1999) 00:18:17
1999 – Mortyr 2093-1944 (Mirage Media – 1999) 00:18:29
1999 – Pyl (Optimus Nexus – 1999) 00:18:41
1999 – Raising Dead (Gelios – 1999) 00:18:53
1999 – Redline (Accolade – 1999) 00:19:05
1999 – Russian Roulette 2_The Next Worlds (Logos – 1999) 00:19:17
1999 – Saints of Virtue (Shine Studios – 1999) 00:19:29
1999 – Skout (Soft Enterprises – 1999) 00:19:41
1999 – War In Heaven, The (Eternal Warriors LLC – 1999 00:19:53
Amazing work again Gary. My favorite genre of gaming. No Requiem: Avenging Angel though??!
Nice work Gary these look amazing
I like how this one also has many other games I didn't know of yet, in addition to others already covered by a bunch of people from the past. Goes to show how much effort you've put into researching these games!
WOW, I'm OCD about this subject, I want to play all the old school FPS, it's an obsession I have, thank you very much 😛
Pra quem veio pelo game br do post, é hades 2 de espaço informática
Actually Robocop 3 was first game featuring 3d hand to hand combat – levels where player fight cyberninjas if external view chosen.
No Jurasssic Park DOS fps levels? First game with gun on the side of screen, not i centre. Technically ahead of it times, being released in 1993 had features absent even in 1995 games.
Nerves of Stell was first fps profesionally translated to my native language (Polish).
Target looks outdatet but had split screen mode- don't remember any pc fps had this then.
Cheers!
Man if you see all this… Makes you appreciate even harder what kind of a masterpiece Half-life (1998) was.
You missed Lunicus!
One of the only ones of these ancient obscure shooters that I've actually played.
That first person hadouken is so cool 😎
It would have been great if they put a lot of these out on the snes when they were current.
I love how most of them used a modified Wolfenstein 3D engine or something similar. Raycasters all the way to '96.
I don't recognise any of them
Redline!
Some of them look impressive but came out too late. Something that looks and feel like Doom 1 is sure to be obscure if it comes out in 1998 when Quake and Half-Life were already a thing.
17:47 battlefield granpa
Hell yeah, Rob Zombie!
There was a fps around the band KISS that even released for the dreamcast. I think it was made in 1999 or 2000
1996 was such a weird year for gaming on pc
I feel like I've seen a surprising number of these – although still less than half – thanks to Youtubers (stuff like Isle of the Dead) and vague memories of crap I found on shareware discs back in the day (like Operation Bodycount), but I haven't played many at all. Gives me a lot to look more into!
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Great selection, but you really should've increased the cycles for some of these when you ran them in DOSBox. Ken's Labyrinth is NOT supposed to chug like that, and I'm guessing the same is true for most of the others that I'm not familiar with. There's no way so many shooters in mid 90s were running at single digit framerates like many of them appear to be in this video.
I think Requiem: Avenging Angel probably belongs on this list more than Strife and Chasm which are no longer obscure due to having received Nightdive ports/rematers.
Liquidator… how the hell is there a Build Engine game that I'm not aware of? And looks like it was added as freeware on Steam just a couple weeks ago! Will need to check this one out.
I played demos/sharewares of (mostly from PC Gamer demo disks): Ken's Labyrinth, Shadowcaster, Specter VR, CyClones, Fortress of Dr. Radiaki, Cybermage, In Pursuit of Greed, Assassin 2015, Rex Blade, XS, ZPC, Chasm, Necrodome, Codename Eagle, Mortyr, Redline.
I played through the full version of Eradicator just last year, and Strife Veteran Edition 4 years ago. Also played a bit of the Last Rights, Madspace, and Z.A.R. on Steam. I own Redline and Witchaven 2 on Steam but haven't played them there yet.
I was sure I got a free CD with Rebel Moon Rising with the Pentium 233 MMx I bought in '97, and I'd played a bit of it at the time, but I have no idea where that disk is now.
Awesome Gary, very cool
Mortal Coil: Adrenaline Intelligence was insane good back in the days, i remember i was surprised by graphic and game mechanics. There a lot of good sci-fi and supernatural things in this game, i love how you can choose other teammates as playable character or just play your game as a first person shooter or a third person game. Ty for this list, i've found a lot of ms-dos games i never played before 🙂
My AUNT showed me Hades 2 once NEO and TRINITY from matrix show up as civilians you gotta rescue!!
Great video and content bro, awesome!! ❤️
When I watch this video, for some reason the games made by Capstone look good, starting from the UI or HUD, the graphics, and the gameplay looks smooth and solid, for that era. 👍