Im at the age where these games were hot I was in elementary school so I don’t think I got to fully experience them but now it’s almost like their better then new games
dude, some of my friends played Warsow with me, we recently remembered the game but couldn't find it, didn't know its name has changed, looking it up right now
Holy heck - i didn't even realise Prodeus and Dusk had MP - they've been on my wishlist for ages haha. F me. GGs for showing Pad + UrT! Anyone remember TrueCombat:Elite? (every time i watch one of your vids i remember a multiplayer FPS that i spent way too much time playing way back when i had reflexes!)
Want a free CoD clone? Well too bad, there are none! Those are all online DRM trash... WHY?! Seriously wtf, every free LAN shooter is just Arena/Unreal/Quake clones. The only one emulating CoD to an extent is AssaultCube Reloaded with loadouts, perks and ironsights. But since its the cube engine, the menus suck, the vanilla maps are cramped trash and the character models are terrible and overall outdated beyond belief. Then there is Red Eclipse, only similar to CoD because it has a 2 weapon loadout, but thats where similarity ends. The game doesnt even allow you to turn of the terrible hit sound effects. What a horrible time to be alive.
So none of them has big player base but you call them "alive". Especially with diabotical, which died just in 2 years after it's launch and is dead now, lol
Holy crap you did this list full of crap and dead games with no real online but didn't mention Half Life, which player online is bigger than every of these games combined
I genuinely HATE this trend of "wait, your game doesn't have 1,000,000 playres ACTIVE ON MONDAY? Is dead" Sure, you need players to well... play, but the moment a game reaches 100+ players, it's FAR from dead in my opinion. Thanks for this list! Gotta get ready for my next lan party haha
Arena Shooters, as I see them from my perspective, are like how Real Time Strategy games had been doing a few years ago. A genre that had been at the top of the gamers' minds and lives now kinda left behind by the times. RTS as a genre has been experiencing a new silver age, and many new promising games are about to come out soon. Arena Shooters in comparison, mostly live off of community servers in old games, or remakes/remasters. However, there is still a healthy crop of boomer shooters coming out, and who knows maybe one of them can catch on for a community to play. I had no idea Prodeus actually has populated multiplayer and I plan on checking that out, I love Prodeus.
@@kurisuchiinathecrocodile333 for now I'm interested on -ZeroSpace -Industrial Annihilation -DORF RTS -Dust Front -Barkhan -BAR -Tempest Rising -Stormgate
I've never really played an RTS, but it doesn't really seem like something that I'd stick with. I am completely willing to be proven wrong, though. I used to have zero interest in FPS anything. Now I have over two-thousand hours in Team Fortress 2 over a period nine years. Lol
CocaineDiesel is based on the Warsow source code (Qfusion engine). The bomb gametype was originally developed as a Warsow gametype which quickly took over the rest of team based gametypes other than clan arena. I still can't believe iD didn't implement it in QL. It kicks ass both as competitive and pub gametype.
I bought reflex arena because of this video. It's on sale right now for 99 cents. The 4 pack is 3 dollars. 0 players online unless some discord people jump in. I wish more people played.
Just wanted to come Back to say thank you. Hero shooter brain rot was turning me away from playing and without the rabbit hole of games this video sent me down I probably would barely be playing let alone uploading content brother 🙏🏽 hope all is well
Personally Half-Life 2 Deathmatch with custom maps with friends on a LAN has to be one of my favorites. I'm not sure that can be categorized an arena fps though; I just like derping around in that game.
I always loved All Out War 2 - a mod for the doom 2 sourceport Zandronum. But it was a while dead, might be still the case, I would need to check again. was a while
Wow, never knew about cocaine diesel! Digging the simple Art style, reminding me from its simplicity of super hot. (Btw, thanks for featuring WoP! Already linked your vid on our discord!)
I wouldnt call these "going strong" unfortunately. Most of these communities dont have players unless a big enough event can be put together. Maybe a server from time to time with a few people online Quake Champions is the most populated game on this list as of right now.
@@SaltyOctopus It also has its own benefits, for example: having few players that know eachother and play every night and have known eachother for years now... A decade, and are familiar with eachother's play style, has their own inside jokes... is an undescribably amazing experience!
Check out recent QHLAN for Quakeworld / Quake 1.... Big event, pro production, top players coming from around the world to compete, hundreds watching the live twitch stream. Game is far from dead, in fact its growing... www.twitch.tv/tastyspleentv
perfect video for what i was looking for, for some reason i was getting endless video essays about how afps are dead and with same points that have been preached to death, when searching for a video like this, i was just looking for good number of options, to show my coworkers and hopefully get them into ctf, we already somtime play cs 1.6.
What I dont understand is: Why the boomer shooter devs feel like they have to have retro graphics? Why we cant have a boomer shooter with modern graphics? The problem is not the graphics, we just dont want to play 5min looting and 5min searching for an enemy in call of duty
areana shooters are definitely dead. theres like a total of 7000 players across all games. it sucks i just wanna play more quake but theres only 600 people max .
I loved diabotical but, at least in europe, there are like 2 matches for wipeout and if you can't join them you have to wait for like 20 minutes and it makes it hard to play because of the lack of people, it's a pity, I hope it ends up in steam or something to revive it somehow
If you're interested in playing an arena third person shooter called Red Faction Guerrilla let me know. We play via scheduled events. If you uploaded gameplay it would help us garner more players.
Thanks, that's a great video. What about quake world and quake 2, that still have some communities playing? And what about quake live? Most of q3 fans moved to quake live, including promoders, clanarena players, etc. There's a strong core of players who don't want to switch from quake live to quake champions (myself included). FFA, duel and TDM modes are still quite popular in QL and you can find players to play with. And last but not at least, the quake 3 mod that's most alive today - the DEFRAG. Not too big community, but it has a few hundreds of players, and more than 10k maps! Servers and leaderboards are alive. Regular competitions are organized. Often a new competition once a week! Freestyle sub-community of defrag is in its renaissance now.
We still have regulars playing Fadeout: Underground. It fluctuates but we recently had 12 players on CTF mode. It's an arena shooter with some unique movement mechanics and weapons. 2 of us are even working on new maps for it.
Serious question: How do all these free games make money? Servers cost money to keep running, so are the devs paying their own money out of passion for the games?
They don't make money. They're made for the love of it. Maybe some have people donate to them but servers are usually hosted by players and not dedicated servers.
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as a young person myself, i adore arena fps and feel like they are some of the most fun ive had recently
Im at the age where these games were hot I was in elementary school so I don’t think I got to fully experience them but now it’s almost like their better then new games
dude, some of my friends played Warsow with me, we recently remembered the game but couldn't find it, didn't know its name has changed, looking it up right now
Holy heck - i didn't even realise Prodeus and Dusk had MP - they've been on my wishlist for ages haha. F me.
GGs for showing Pad + UrT!
Anyone remember TrueCombat:Elite? (every time i watch one of your vids i remember a multiplayer FPS that i spent way too much time playing way back when i had reflexes!)
Never tried True Combat. But yeah Dusk and Prodeus are bad ass. Get into em!
love it! great list, salty. we need more these type of videos spreading the word about games people crave!
Thanks Steph! I really appreciate it!
Apex , Fortnight and others will be lon gone when I play my Friday evening rounds of Warfrok clan arena. Stay frosty Forkers. Booo
Want a free CoD clone? Well too bad, there are none! Those are all online DRM trash... WHY?!
Seriously wtf, every free LAN shooter is just Arena/Unreal/Quake clones.
The only one emulating CoD to an extent is AssaultCube Reloaded with loadouts, perks and ironsights. But since its the cube engine, the menus suck, the vanilla maps are cramped trash and the character models are terrible and overall outdated beyond belief.
Then there is Red Eclipse, only similar to CoD because it has a 2 weapon loadout, but thats where similarity ends. The game doesnt even allow you to turn of the terrible hit sound effects.
What a horrible time to be alive.
Didn't even know about a few of these. Civvie made me aware that Daikatana is still alive and awesome, though.
So none of them has big player base but you call them "alive". Especially with diabotical, which died just in 2 years after it's launch and is dead now, lol
Holy crap you did this list full of crap and dead games with no real online but didn't mention Half Life, which player online is bigger than every of these games combined
Unvanquished is remake/fork of tremulous which has been developed since 2006.
weird you gave an honorable mention to fortress forever but not tf2, the only successful arena shooter derivative.
Warfork has revived the Arena for me AND ITS FREE!!!!!!
I genuinely HATE this trend of "wait, your game doesn't have 1,000,000 playres ACTIVE ON MONDAY? Is dead"
Sure, you need players to well... play, but the moment a game reaches 100+ players, it's FAR from dead in my opinion.
Thanks for this list! Gotta get ready for my next lan party haha
Nice!
Arena Shooters, as I see them from my perspective, are like how Real Time Strategy games had been doing a few years ago. A genre that had been at the top of the gamers' minds and lives now kinda left behind by the times. RTS as a genre has been experiencing a new silver age, and many new promising games are about to come out soon. Arena Shooters in comparison, mostly live off of community servers in old games, or remakes/remasters. However, there is still a healthy crop of boomer shooters coming out, and who knows maybe one of them can catch on for a community to play. I had no idea Prodeus actually has populated multiplayer and I plan on checking that out, I love Prodeus.
I want to get back into Prodeus as well. Maybe I will see you there!
what RTS thingies from recent/future you can recommend?
@@kurisuchiinathecrocodile333 for now I'm interested on
-ZeroSpace
-Industrial Annihilation
-DORF RTS
-Dust Front
-Barkhan
-BAR
-Tempest Rising
-Stormgate
@@varyagace thank you!
I've never really played an RTS, but it doesn't really seem like something that I'd stick with. I am completely willing to be proven wrong, though. I used to have zero interest in FPS anything. Now I have over two-thousand hours in Team Fortress 2 over a period nine years. Lol
CocaineDiesel is based on the Warsow source code (Qfusion engine). The bomb gametype was originally developed as a Warsow gametype which quickly took over the rest of team based gametypes other than clan arena. I still can't believe iD didn't implement it in QL. It kicks ass both as competitive and pub gametype.
Awesome! I wanna try it for sure. Looks awesome
I bought reflex arena because of this video. It's on sale right now for 99 cents. The 4 pack is 3 dollars. 0 players online unless some discord people jump in. I wish more people played.
You should list Half Life 1 Deathmatch as well (or hlag the competitive mod)
Doombringer looks sick, thank you
You're welcome. It's great. I'm loving it.
Just wanted to come
Back to say thank you. Hero shooter brain rot was turning me away from playing and without the rabbit hole of games this video sent me down I probably would barely be playing let alone uploading content brother 🙏🏽 hope all is well
Personally Half-Life 2 Deathmatch with custom maps with friends on a LAN has to be one of my favorites. I'm not sure that can be categorized an arena fps though; I just like derping around in that game.
I mentioned it in a previous vid. Looks really fun. I think it's on the edge of being an arena fps.
actually really nice list,would also reccomend adding Master Arena onto the next (on steam and free)
Nice list, one more quite active shooter worth mentioning is Krunker, pretty unique in its own right since you play it through the web browser
Never heard of it
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check it out!
this is great dude arena shooters should still be in the fps genre
Assault Cube was my jam! Nice to see it's still kicking!
Played warsaw so much
Digital Paintball 2 is also still "alive and well". Plenty people show up during the biweekly social saturday event.
I always loved All Out War 2 - a mod for the doom 2 sourceport Zandronum. But it was a while dead, might be still the case, I would need to check again. was a while
Wow, never knew about cocaine diesel! Digging the simple Art style, reminding me from its simplicity of super hot. (Btw, thanks for featuring WoP! Already linked your vid on our discord!)
Appreciate that! Yeah CD looks great. I'm gonna try it out soon for sure.
NP! You are making great content! Just wish you and your channel the best!@@SaltyOctopus
@@o03aTmE0o thanks again! I'm grateful for viewers like you who enjoy what I'm trying to do here. :)
id say CD feels almost like "Cruelty Squad of afps", lol
im 23 and id rather spend 5 hours on quake 3 arena than waster one hours on fortnite or modern call of duty games
thanks for video. no love for xonotic, though?
It's in a previous vid
@@SaltyOctopus ah ok!
I love reflex so much. my favorite afps
I wouldnt call these "going strong" unfortunately. Most of these communities dont have players unless a big enough event can be put together. Maybe a server from time to time with a few people online
Quake Champions is the most populated game on this list as of right now.
It's all about perspective. For me, a small community that is still playing games every day is going strong.
@@SaltyOctopus It also has its own benefits, for example: having few players that know eachother and play every night and have known eachother for years now... A decade, and are familiar with eachother's play style, has their own inside jokes... is an undescribably amazing experience!
Check out recent QHLAN for Quakeworld / Quake 1.... Big event, pro production, top players coming from around the world to compete, hundreds watching the live twitch stream. Game is far from dead, in fact its growing... www.twitch.tv/tastyspleentv
how you gonna make this without mentioning quake live
for real not mentioning cpma?? facepalm
man you are an absolute saint to the afps community
Appreciate that bro! :)
perfect video for what i was looking for, for some reason i was getting endless video essays about how afps are dead and with same points that have been preached to death, when searching for a video like this, i was just looking for good number of options, to show my coworkers and hopefully get them into ctf, we already somtime play cs 1.6.
I have a few similar vids on my channel that you may also find helpful. Appreciate your comment!
You get a like for mentioning warfork! 👍
its dead on console tho only game i can still kick is doom 2016
I still play Assault Cube from time to time.
Whoa.
Ok, I'm taking notes of all 3 afps-top videos (or did i miss something?).
Subscribed.
Appreciate you 🙏
You missed these:
- Microvolts: Recharged
- Cat Warfare
- Big Fat Battle
- MidAir 2
- Project Sparrow
- Tower Unite ( SDNL )
- Roblox (HellReaver)
I'll keep them in mind for future vids and check them out. Thanks!
@@SaltyOctopus no problem, thank you for the afps content
@@XTREMO94 heck yeah!
every game in this list is quake
What I dont understand is: Why the boomer shooter devs feel like they have to have retro graphics? Why we cant have a boomer shooter with modern graphics? The problem is not the graphics, we just dont want to play 5min looting and 5min searching for an enemy in call of duty
areana shooters are definitely dead. theres like a total of 7000 players across all games. it sucks i just wanna play more quake but theres only 600 people max .
I loved diabotical but, at least in europe, there are like 2 matches for wipeout and if you can't join them you have to wait for like 20 minutes and it makes it hard to play because of the lack of people, it's a pity, I hope it ends up in steam or something to revive it somehow
Also: Where is Quake Champions Doom Edition?? Come on :D
I'm my other videos
Any on xbox store?
Never heard of Red Eclipse before this video :o
i remember having a good time in sauerbraten though
Reflex is dead
Lmao Diabolical
If you're interested in playing an arena third person shooter called Red Faction Guerrilla let me know. We play via scheduled events. If you uploaded gameplay it would help us garner more players.
Fun game! I played it back in the day, I just don't care for third person perspectives tbh with you.
@@SaltyOctopus I think if you tried it you may change your mind
@@SaltyOctopus added you on discord
@@vincegenuit222 3rd person perspective sucks also its not an arena shooter.
Thanks, that's a great video.
What about quake world and quake 2, that still have some communities playing? And what about quake live? Most of q3 fans moved to quake live, including promoders, clanarena players, etc. There's a strong core of players who don't want to switch from quake live to quake champions (myself included). FFA, duel and TDM modes are still quite popular in QL and you can find players to play with. And last but not at least, the quake 3 mod that's most alive today - the DEFRAG. Not too big community, but it has a few hundreds of players, and more than 10k maps! Servers and leaderboards are alive. Regular competitions are organized. Often a new competition once a week! Freestyle sub-community of defrag is in its renaissance now.
when next dfwc?
xonotic
We still have regulars playing Fadeout: Underground. It fluctuates but we recently had 12 players on CTF mode. It's an arena shooter with some unique movement mechanics and weapons. 2 of us are even working on new maps for it.
Can you send me a link?
Every game is in an arena, the arenas just got bigger.
Awesome video! Are there any Arena Shooters on Xbox? I know we have Splitgate and Quake 2 but is there more?
Sorry friend. I'm not familiar with the Xbox community and what's available. But thank you for watching and enjoying.
Serious question: How do all these free games make money? Servers cost money to keep running, so are the devs paying their own money out of passion for the games?
They don't make money. They're made for the love of it. Maybe some have people donate to them but servers are usually hosted by players and not dedicated servers.
@@SaltyOctopus Oh, I never thought of that. I guess that takes the burden off. It's great that these games can stick around.
We never made a single cent from making Warsow.
@@jal051 are you a warsow dev?
@@SaltyOctopus Was. I was the lead coder until version 0.6
I trwally wish u would have added UT4 so people would know
hey thats me :0 thanks for sharin our community, we got some new blood lookin, and i can help those lookin for balanced games connect with others on a close level
🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇
What clip? :)