Shoot'Em Down (Series) Alternatives

Games similar to Shoot'Em Down include Xonotic, which is free and open source. Other options are Counter-Strike, Quake, AssaultCube and Doom. You're spoiled for choice with First-Person Shooters like Shoot'Em Down: we list more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPad.

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  1. OpenArena icon
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    OpenArena is a community-produced deathmatch FPS based on GPL idTech3 technology. There are many game types supported including Free For All, Capture The Flag, Domination, Overload, Harvester, and more. There are 17 unique player models to choose from and 12 weapons.

    40 OpenArena alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. Shadow Warrior is a series of first-person shooter video games that focuses on the exploits of Lo Wang, a modern ninja warrior who fights through hordes of demons.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Playstation
    • Xbox
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  3. Prodeus icon
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    Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Steam
    • GOG.com
    • Playstation
    • Nintendo Switch
    • Xbox
    • Humble Bundle
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  4. SWAT icon
     9 likes

    Immersive tactical first-person shooter emphasizing realistic law enforcement, teamwork, and strategy in urban settings, with missions involving hostage rescue, suspect apprehension, adherence to protocol, and use of authentic equipment and non-lethal tactics.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • GOG.com
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    SWAT screenshot 1
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  5. Dead Space icon
     20 likes

    Dead Space is a survival horror third-person shooter video game for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
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  6. SPRAWL 96 icon
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    SPRAWL 96 is a celebration of our retro shooter SPRAWL, released for the first anniversary of SPRAWL's release. It’s also our way of giving thanks and giving back to the communities which made SPRAWL possible.

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Mac
    • Windows
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  7. Urban Terror icon
     30 likes

    Urban Terror started as a realism based "total conversion" mod for Quake III Arena. Nowadays, Urban Terror is played using the free, stand-alone, ioquake3 engine modified, which doesn't require Quake III Arena, in addition to being an add-on to id Software's...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Painkiller icon
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    The game is inspired by such classic titles as Quake and Doom, with the emphasis on killing large numbers of monsters. The game is divided into five chapters, each about five levels long. The player's objective is to get through each level, from start to finish, by...

    40 Painkiller alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. Nexuiz Classic icon
     29 likes

    Nexuiz was originally developed by Lee Vermeulen and Forest ‘LordHavoc’ Hale, who started Alientrap in the summer of 2002. The goal of the project was to create a high quality first person shooter that could be played freely across all platforms in one package: PC, Mac, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon is an American video game series of military tactical shooters, created by Red Storm Entertainment, a game development studio founded in part by American author Tom Clancy.

    56 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  11. Tremulous icon
     16 likes

    Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based FPS with elements of an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. Halo icon
     19 likes

    Halo is a science fiction, first-person shooter video game series, that centers on an interstellar war between humanity and a theocratic alliance of aliens known as the Covenant.

    47 Halo alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Steam
    • Xbox
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    Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
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