2024 will see the release of lots of exciting new shooters! Our list reveals which ones you should definitely keep an eye on
Whether for multiplayer or solo fans: 2024 has plenty of exciting shooters in store!
Including sequels and remakes of popular brands, but also completely new and unusual shooter approaches.
In our overview you will find all the important candidates including release dates – so let’s get straight to it!
Stalker 2
(Release: September 5, 2024 – Platform: PC, Xbox Series X/S)
For years, fans of the Stalker series have been waiting to finally explore radioactively contaminated ruins, collect rare resources and fend off mutants again. On September 5, 2024, the time will finally come and we will return to the zone around Chernobyl as soldiers of fortune in Stalker 2 .
In the post-apocalyptic setting, we complete quests for various factions in the open world, manage our inventory and get to the bottom of gruesome experiments. The development of the shooter is a story full of drama – because the creators are based in Ukraine, which is under threat from Russian aggression!
Out of Action
(Release: End of 2024 – Platform: PC)
If you had to summarize Out of Action in one sentence, it would probably be: Ghost in the Shell as a fast-paced multiplayer shooter with cyber upgrades and Matrix-style slow motion. Astonishingly, the shooter is being developed by just one developer in Unreal Engine!
In addition to the buttery smooth animations, the main focus is on a multi-layered loadout system: We can become invisible, shoot homing smart bullets, fend off bullets with the katana or hack the implants of our opponents.
Beautiful Light
(Release: unknown, Early Access expected 2024 – Platform: PC)
What if Hunt Showdown wasn’t set in the 19th century, but in a modern military setting? The answer is Beautiful Light, where up to six task forces with state-of-the-art tactical equipment advance into a nightmarish quarantine zone to recover an artifact.
In secret laboratories and abandoned office complexes lurk not only other players, but also dangerous anomalies and grotesque creatures. To complete their mission successfully, players need teamwork and the right equipment, from laser sights and gas masks to night vision goggles
Call of Duty 2024
(Release: between October and November 2024 – Platform: unknown)
Nobody really expected this: a new CoD will finally be released in 2024! But joking aside: After media reports turned out to be false that the series would switch to a two-year cycle, a new installment for 2024 is virtually certain.
CoD 2024 is being developed by Treyarch, who are known for the Black Ops series. According to insiders, the new Call of Duty will be set in the 1990s and use the First Iraq War as its setting. The title is rumored to be Black Ops: Gulf War or Black Ops: Desert Storm. As is typical for the Black Ops series, secret military operations and CIA machinations are likely to be at the center of the game
Gray Zone Warfare
(Release: 2024 – Platform: PC)
Fans of realistic military simulations à la Operation Flashpoint or Escape from Tarkov should keep an eye on Gray Zone Warfare for 2024: In this tactical shooter, we have hardly any HUD displays, have to treat gunshot wounds professionally and eat regularly to avoid going limp.
In a jungle landscape of 42 square kilometers, our team has to complete various objectives and escape the map alive – otherwise all our equipment is gone. To make this work, we can modify our weapons down to the smallest detail and coordinate our squad to take out enemies as quietly as possible.
Older shooter veterans may know the developers: They were significantly involved in Vietcong from 2003.
Arc Raiders
(Release: End of 2024 – Platform: PS5, PC, Xbox Series X/S)
When former Battlefield developers join forces to form a new studio and announce two new projects, shooter fans sit up and take notice! The Swedish Embark Studios did just that: alongside the arena shooter The Finals, they unveiled the 2021 extraction shooter Arc Raiders an.
In the free2play shooter, we have to fight for survival and valuable equipment as raiders on a post-apocalyptic Earth, while hostile machine creatures from space called Arc attack. Arc Raiders mixes PvE, PvP, crafting and survival in an open world with dynamic weather and day/night changes.
Exoborne
(Release: probably 2024 – Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S)
Extraction shooters seem to be the next big thing in the genre after the big battle royale trend. With Exoborne another representative was announced at the Game Awards 2023 – this time set against a post-apocalyptic backdrop full of the forces of nature. And with exosuits!
We keep upgrading our high-tech combat suit with the help of captured crafting materials – as long as we stay alive, of course. Because on the large open-world map, other players are out to get us, AI opponents from various factions are also targeting us and, in the worst-case scenario, a tornado or lightning storm could also appear. With this twist, Exoborne could literally take the shooter world by storm!
Pioneer
(Release: probably 2024 – Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S)
Pioner is a promising mix of shooter, survival game and MMO. And before you run off at the mention of multiplayer: You can also simply stay away from the PvP zones and wander through the wasteland on your own or in co-op.
In any case, there’s plenty to do: factions give us quests, we trade in settlements and craft materials to make better equipment. And in the endgame, nasty world bosses are at our throats!
In terms of setting and atmosphere, Pioner borrows generously from genre colleagues such as Stalker, Fallout and Remnant. The release was first planned for 2023, but was then postponed
Industria 2
(Release: unknown, probably 2024 – Platform: PC)
The classic single-player shooter with a story focus is dead? Industria 2 proves the opposite and continues the gripping story about a parallel world in East Berlin in 1989
There we encounter strange industrial constructs, deadly robots and an out-of-control AI. The makers promise a “touching storyline” full of exciting characters, which should be around four to six hours long – a clear alternative to the modern service game approach.
The crafting and physics systems of Industria will be expanded and the switch to Unreal Engine 5 should also enable the small indie development team to make a leap forward graphically.
Exfil
(Release: unknown, Early Access in 2024 – Platform: PC)
Exfil is a tactical military shooter in extraction format and is reminiscent of a more manageable version of Escape from Tarkov. Up to four teams compete on a map measuring approximately two by two square kilometers and all pursue the same goal: secure data from a crashed helicopter and escape alive!
The HUD is minimalist and we use a GPS tracker to find our way through a game world with a dynamic weather system. We need residual light amplifiers for dark nights, and thanks to realistic weapon behavior, even a few hits are fatal. Tactical equipment such as smoke grenades, booby traps and more add depth to the game.
Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2
(Release: September 9, 2024 – Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S)
Ultramarines, sharpen your blessed chainswords, in Space Marine 2 it’s the xenos at the collar – to the glory of the Emperor! Ahem. Sorry. You only understand the station? Well then, in less Warhammer-speak: More than 10 years after the first part, you’re back in action as a heavily armored space warrior against hordes of aliens
And the atmosphere is great (even without previous knowledge of Warhammer): Hundreds of enemies storm towards us at the same time in the huge battles, while artillery thunders in the background. We slaughter our way through spaceship corridors, dense jungles and devastated cities alone or in co-op.
The First Descendant
(Release: 2024 – Platform: Xbox Series X/S, PC, PS5)
Thanks to Unreal Engine 5, The First Descendant deserves a place on our list of prospects for its magnificent graphics alone! Together with four friends in co-op, we set off as sci-fi super warriors and complete story missions, side quests and massive boss battles to protect our home world.
The First Descendant focuses on the hunt for fresh loot, which we can use to further improve our hero and adapt or refine our fighting style so that we can master the tough world missions at some point in the endgame. Without teamwork, however, nothing is possible in this mix of Anthem, Warframe and Destiny
Judas
(Release: unknown, probably 2024 – Platform: PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S)
Ken Levine, the creative mind behind Bioshock, is hatching a new story shooter with his studio Ghost Story Games: Judas puts us not in a city underwater or high in the sky, but on board a decaying spaceship.
There, everything seems to have fallen apart at the seams: In utter chaos, our hero encounters grotesque figures, raving robots and out-of-control experiments. As in Bioshock, we upgrade our body with upgrades to use special abilities
Den of Wolves
(Release: unknown, probably 2024 – Platform: PC, consoles still unconfirmed)
The makers of Payday are back! Not the ones from Payday 3, but from the first two parts. They are now called 10 Chambers and recently released GTFO, a damn intense co-op shooter
With Den of Wolves the team wants to return to the heist genre – but not in the present day, but in a dark cyberpunk world. Overpowering mega-corporations, hacking and AI therefore play a central role.
We don’t yet know how it will all play out in the end. But one thing is certain: teamwork will be the difference between victory and defeat and (as in Payday) we have the choice between action and stealth in our cyber heists.
Unrecord
(Release: unknown, probably 2024 – Platform: PC, consoles still unconfirmed)
It’s the shooter that looks almost too realistic: With its first trailer, Unrecord Unrecord in April 2023 triggers a debate about photorealism and how far games should go with it. With its bodycam perspective and a few tricks in Unreal Engine 5, Unrecord looks uncannily real.
But is that even good? What is certain is that Unrecord experienced a real hype and has since landed on thousands and thousands of Steam wish lists. The story revolves around a police officer who has to solve a complex case – according to the developer, mainly with brains, but as you can see also with force of arms!
Killing Floor 3
(Release: unknown, probably 2024 – Platform: Xbox Series X/S, PS5, PC)
Ok, the series may not be quite as well known as Left 4 Dead. But Killing Floor has nevertheless built up a huge and loyal fan base over the years, who, even many years after its release, still throw themselves into the co-op carnage and expertly dismember zombies (called zeds here) of all shapes and sizes.
The anticipation for Killing Floor 3 is now correspondingly high, with the game landing on many Steam wish lists shortly after its announcement. The trailer already hints that the Zeds have been massively upgraded for part 3 and transformed into a kind of undead cyborg army
Anger Foot
(Release: unknown, probably 2024 – Platform: PC, consoles still unconfirmed)
The developers of Broforce want to open the door to first-person shooters in 2024 with Anger Foot . And by entering the door, we are already looking at exactly the right image: Similar to Hotline Miami, we storm rooms full of enemies at lightning speed and shoot or kick everything and everyone to bits in seconds with our power feet. A powerful beat booms out of the speakers!
The game world and the design of the enemies can probably best be summarized as “cartoon on drugs”. But no matter how crazy it gets, it’s the flow that counts. And it’s already great. Don’t you think? There’s already a (Demo for download) on Steam.
Selaco
(Release: May 31, 2024 – Platform: PC)
It’s hard to believe that Selaco is based on the Doom engine and thus on technology from the 90s. The single-player shooter has an amazingly clever enemy AI and dynamically destructible environments and is strikingly reminiscent of good old F.E.A.R. (only with less horror and more sci-fi).
Thanks to voxel technology, furniture, windows and even enemies fly apart spectacularly when fired upon – but the enemies are anything but hollow cannon fodder: they take cover, talk to each other and launch clever flanking attacks! The story of Selaco revolves around an underground bunker where we uncover a conspiracy after the fall of the Earth.
That was our preview of the most important shooters of 2024! But of course that’s just the tip of the iceberg: many more shooters will be released over the course of the year. Have we forgotten your favorite candidate or a special insider tip? We’d love to hear your feedback, so feel free to write your personal shooter highlights for 2024 in the comments below
