FPS: 15 Best First-Person Shooters With No Multiplayer Mode

The First-Person Shooter genre has been dominated by multiplayer modes for decades now, but some of the best FPS games are exclusively singleplayer.

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The first-person shooter genre has been around almost as long as gaming. There is something intimate and visceral about blowing away bad guys while seeing through the eyes of the player character, not to mention the boost to immersion. Most entries in the genre include a multiplayer mode for friends and strangers to battle each other either online or locally.

This list, however, focuses on the titles that eschew such a feature in favor of a fully fleshed-out single-player campaign. These are important titles for days when the Internet connection is weak and friends or siblings are nowhere in sight for local mayhem.

Updated On November 1st By Jason Wojnar: As time marches on, multiplayer and living games are more heavily emphasized within the industry. While competitive titles like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Apex Legends, and Battlefield are highly celebrated and deserve all the commendation they receive, sometimes people just want to go through a story mode all on their lonesome. For those wanting a more direct narrative, we’ve added five more FPS games that completely lack multiplayer. Some are conventional examples of the genre, while others are a little more creative with their use of the first-person perspective.

15 Medal Of Honor: Frontline

Medal of Honor: Frontline was the console counterpart to the PC World War II shooter Medal of Honor Allied Assault. They had two different campaigns, although they both included a recreation of D-Day. The PS2 version only included the single-player missions, but the campaign was big and challenging enough to warrant a full purchase. Later editions on the GameCube and Xbox included a local multiplayer option, however.

14 Call Of Juarez: Gunslinger

After Techland’s disappointing third entry in the Call of Juarez series, The Cartel, the series went back to its wild west roots with a few interesting changes. A cel-shaded aesthetic stylized the action, and the story shies away from the McCall family line. The campaign is shorter than usual due to it not being a full-priced game, but a slew of extra modes like Arcade and Duel add replay value.

13 Black

Before working on the Need for Speed series, Criterion was mostly known for their cult-classic Burnout games. However, they took a small detour for Black, a first-person shooter whose main focus was making the most bombastic action possible with the best sound design of its generation. The campaign is not particularly lengthy, but the level variety is impressive and every shootout is memorable, complete with impressive destructible environments. It is almost a shame the company never made another first-person shooter.

12 BioShock: Infinite

Players come into this third entry of the BioShock franchise thinking it will be a spin-off or at most thematically connected. By the end of the game, the narrative connections between Columbia and Rapture become more apparent, and grow even stronger with the Burial at Sea DLC. The gameplay was refreshing for a generation where military shooters dominated the PS3 and Xbox 360, and the cerebral narrative kept gamers talking for months. Along with The Last of Us, this is the second game from 2013 where a character played by Troy Baker escorts someone.

11 Metro: Exodus

4A games’ Metro series is not for everybody. It eschews bombastic action in exchange for atmospheric frights and wonder. Exploring the ruined countrysides of Eastern Europe is a treat, accompanied by beautiful vistas and fearsome foes, both monstrous and human. The title also represents the developer’s story; during development they moved their headquarters from Kyiv, Ukraine to Malta.

10 Superhot

In Superhot, time only progresses forward as the player moves, making for gameplay that is equal parts strategy and Hong Kong action movie. The normal game is intriguing enough, but VR takes it to a whole other level. With movements directly mimicking what the player does while wearing the headset, no other game has ever made someone feel more like an action hero.

9 Resident Evil 7

Not only is this the first mainline Resident Evil game in first-person, it is also the first in the series since Resident Evil 4 to do away with any multiplayer component.

Both Resident Evil 5 and 6 were centered around cooperative gameplay, and they were made better for including it, but the seventh game’s return to form focused purely on bone-chilling terror, a facet of which is the inability to depend on help. The game is also fully playable in VR, though playing with a controller proves an equally terrifying experience.

8 Half-Life: Alyx

It is unfortunate Half-Life: Alyx is locked behind VR, but at the same time fans would never have seen another entry in the franchise if it were not for the new bleeding edge technology. By all accounts, the prequel to Half-Life 2 is the platform’s killer app. Hopefully VR becomes more accessible in the near future and more players can experience this unbelievably immersive adventure.

7 Metroid Prime

Samus skipped out on the Nintendo 64, leaving fans to wonder how Nintendo would adapt the Metroid series for 3D. Retro studios had the answer with Metroid Prime, a first-person shooter which retained the original franchise’s focus on exploration despite the new perspective. It stands as one of the GameCube’s finest titles. The series has not reached similar heights since the 2002 game, although new hope is on the horizon with Metroid Prime 4.

6 Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

Wolfenstein: The New Order came out of the blue with its gloomy alternate history narrative paired with massive, bloody shootouts. The sequel took the action to a conquered United States and upped the ante in every conceivable way. Despite the far-fetched science fiction turns, the story manages to maintain a broody tone and always has something important to say. The recent cooperative spin-off, Young Blood, leaves the door open for a third entry, which fans hope comes sooner rather than later.

5 Turok

The Nintendo 64 had a decent share of quality first-person shooters, including the stellar Goldeneye 007 and Perfect Dark. Before either of those games, Turok entertained FPS fans for hours on end without split-screen options. The single-player campaign was all people needed to get their money’s worth from the title. Even though it made the three other controller ports useless, Turok is still one of the best third-party games on the console. Fortunately, the game was recently remastered and looks better than ever.

4 Bioshock

Before players were destroying the floating city of Columbia in BioShock: Infinite, they were exploring an already ruined city deep underneath the ocean in BioShock. The spiritual successor to the System Shock series, Rapture is just as big a character as any of the humans in the story, and using the plasmids to assist in combat separates it from all other FPS games in the market. The sequel included a multiplayer option, but most say it detracted from the overall package.

3 Disruptor

Before Insomniac made a name for themselves with Spyro the Dragon and literal decades before Marvel’s Spider-Man, they made a small FPS for the PlayStation called Disruptor. Released in 1996, it is one of the few quality FPS games released for the original PlayStation, whose controller did not exactly lend itself well to the genre. Set in a science fiction world, players use special powers in addition to traditional shooting mechanics. The company only made one entry in the series and would not return to the genre until Resistance: Fall of Man, a PlayStation 3 launch title.

2 Dishonored

Arkane Studios is no regular developer of first-person shooters. The games are generally referred to as immersive sims because they are all about using powers and abilities to fool with the environment and AI instead of simply mowing them down with a machine gun. While the studio’s games still rest within a comfortable niche, Dishonored is perhaps the most popular game the developer has made. The stealth-action game’s levels provide players with numerous options on how to complete missions, including beating the game without killing anyone.

1 System Shock

This one is for the PC players, because System Shock never made its way to any consoles. While the sequel from Irrational Games includes cooperative multiplayer, the original title from Looking Glass studios is a purely single-player affair. Released in 1994, its complex environments and immersive gameplay were a revelation for the genre during the decade. While certain elements are certainly dated, newer generations can experience the story soon with a remake in development from Night Dive Studios.

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