12 Best Tactical Shooter Games on Steam

Interstellar Marines: Spearhead Edition is an Action Role-playing, Co-op, Single-player and Multiplayer Tactical Shooter video game developed and published by Zero Point Software for multiple platforms. The game takes place in the science-fictional world where you takes on the role of the main protagonist, who must explore the breathtaking environment to smash down enemies to save the land. There are a variety of missions and each mission needs a completion of certain objectives. You can explore the land from a first-person perspective and use a huge arsenal of weaponry to take down enemies. During the gameplay, you can interact with non-player characters, take aid from them, and progress through the story. Other levels and features will be unlocked as you gain enough experience and points. Avoid enemy attack, use powerful weapons and kill enemies to score the points. The game comes with all future updates and expansion packs, including the original game Interstellar Marines. With superb mechanics, thrilling environment, and brilliant controls, Interstellar Marines: Spearhead Edition is the wonderful game to enjoy.

Day of Infamy is a mixture of First-person Shooter, Action-packed Tactical, and Strategy elements developed and published by New World Interactive. The game takes place during the events of WWII set in European Theatre. The title serves as the standalone to the Day of Infamy mode, released for the previous installment named as Insurgency. It has two generic modes such as Co-op game modes and Online Team-based modes. There are different character classes available such as Support, Assault, Rifleman, Officer, Communications, Machinegunner, etc. from which the player needs pick up class and embarks on a mission to take down enemies. In Online mode, there are two team such as Allied and the Axis, battling against each other to dominate the battlefield while each team consists of 16 players. During the gameplay, the player uses a variety of weapons, kill enemies, collect power-ups while upgrading his weapons using his points. Day of Infamy offers prominent features such as Unlock new Units, Use Authentic Equipment, Battle through War-torn Europe, Weapon Skins, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

GoD Factory: Wingmen is an Action-Adventure and Dogfighting video game played through intensely tactical 4 vs. 4 player combat arena. The ultimate task of the player is to struggle to demolish the 13KM long enemy’s carrier before they destroy the player’s ship. The game mixes the Action, Exploration, Shooter, and Space Simulation with Virtual Reality elements. To get into the space environment, the player needs to select and customize his spaceship, equip it with deadly weapons and interact with other players to team up. Explore the environment from both third-person or first-person perspective and effort to complete multiple missions to progress in the game. The player receives experience points for destroying enemy spaceship and uses his or her points to unlock tons of gunship parts with different statistics, split into four playable species. The game increases his level difficulty as the player becomes advance. GoD Factory: Wingmen offers key features such as Team-based Co-op Multiplayer, 4 vs. 4 Gameplay, Fast-paced Space Shooter, Dozens of Abilities and more. Try it out, and enjoy its prominent features to enjoy.

Mount and Blade Warband: Napoleonic Wars is a Downloadable Content Pack for original game. The game introduces the final years of the Empire of French and revolves around their struggle to conquer the Western Europe to become the super power in the early nineteenth century. The game combines the elements of Action Role-playing, Historical, Strategy, Tactical and Shooter. It supports multiplayer mode and allows you select your nation and take part in invasion of Russia and battle the French from the front line. Lead your army, use weapons to conquer your enemies and participates in sword fights. It includes nineteenth century uniforms, weapons and environments. There are lots of other players like you around the world with the same task to dominate the battlefield. Mount and Blade Warband: Napoleonic Wars offers core features such as Massively Multiplayer Battles, Five different Nations, Three Hundred Thirty unique Units, and a variety of Weapons, Resources, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Verdun is a great Tactical, multiplayer Online First Person Shooter video game set in the World War 1 Era and offers a totally unique game-play experience that immerses you with the immensely blasting nature of the game. The game features historically accurate and quite realistic venues, WW1 weaponry other aesthetics that will definitely leave you spellbound for quite some time. Verdun pushes you right in the middle of the 1916’s infamous battle of Verdun, France and allows you to be part of a 32 player squad and tasks you to defend and capture a number of trenches in order to attack and kill the enemies.by using the WW1 era weaponry, tactics and courage you are required to complete the game objectives. Just like the above mentioned names, Verdun allows you to select your character from 4 main classes (Rifleman, Machine Gunner, NCO and Ganadier) and act according to the skill set of the selected player character. Verdun offers a great realistic World War1 experience, along with a wonderfully immersive game-play, Squad-based Warfare, a great setting, beautiful visuals and a lot of other great things. For an awesome FPS Multiplayer and Tactical experience, do try it out.

Spec Ops: The Line is a Military themed Tactical and Third Person Shooter video game developed by Yager Development and published by 2k games for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 gaming consoles. The story of the game follows the protagonist Captain Martin Walker who goes to the catastrophic Dubai to investigate about the dead American soldiers. This is the point when the mission changes and Walker along with his Elite Delta Force team starts searching for the survivors and engages into battle with the terrorists who kidnapped and killed the soldiers. The game lets you lead your team and engage in battles in a war like environment using state of the art weapons like futuristic rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers etc. To eliminate the enemies and free the hostages. Spec Ops: The Line offers four different game endings and allows you to mold the events and happenings and end the game with an ending you want. Spec Ops: The Line is a great Tactical Third-person Shooter video game, and you will definitely like playing it.

Running With Rifles by Modulaatio Games is a great Action Oriented Tactical Top-Down Shooter and RPG video game. The game lets you join the ranks of a Soldier in an open world and tasks you to accompany your fellow soldiers and fight off the enemies or go deep behind the enemy lines to sabotage enemy installations and facilities, loot resources and return back to your base. Your progress in the game provides you with the experience points that are a way to rank you up and put you into the command business. With great options like calling in the infantry, artillery and air support, armed ships, tanks etc. makes you an expert military officer who single-handedly defeats the enemies. Running with Rifles offers an addictive and engaging game-play, character based story and objectives, great visuals etc.

Sanctum is an Action, Strategy and Tower Defense video game by Coffee Stain Studios. The game beautifully amalgamates Tower Defense, RPG and First Person Shooter elements together and provides with an engaging game-play in which your duty is to build towers, pathways like mazes and defend your posts against the intruding enemies by using your skills, best tactically strategic approaches in a 4 player co-op environment. With amazing visuals, engaging game-play and wonderful mechanics, Sanctum offers 87 achievements, a lot of hidden power-ups, upgrades and a lot of other cool things. For a brilliant Tower Defense experience, do try this game. It’ll blow your mind away with all the wonderful things it has to offer.

Counter-Strike is a fast-paced and action-filled tactical FPS (First Person Shooter) video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. The game offers a war-based action and thrilling gameplay and features a competitive and challenging environment, a great and appealing storyline, and enhanced graphics. It presents a player-controlled protagonist who acts alone or can lead teams of characters like himself and engages in combats with the hostiles in a war-based environment.

Due to the multiplayer nature of the game series, players on a network or globally using the internet can play as teams or on opposite sides as enemies. In addition, it provides various world maps, team-based and vehicular warfare, and a unique experience of first-first-person gaming. You’ll definitely enjoy playing it.

PayDay 2 is First-person Shooter, Tactical Co-operative Multiplayer and Stealth video game. Game kicks off after the events of its predecessor PayDay and introduces a New Gang of Washington D.C. The game allows you to be a member of that Gang and go heisting banks, robbing Jewelry Shops, stealing Cars, Distributing Narcotics and stealing whatever you want in Washington D.C. along with 2 AI players or team up with friends and enjoy amazing Co-Operative Multiplayer gaming. With an Action-packed game-play and all the super thriller nature, PayDay 2 is a blast. If you love playing games like PayDay 2, the following Action-packed titles would definitely be of your great interest. Let’s have a look at some of the best alternatives to PayDay 2.

Counter Strike: Global Offensive or shortly abbreviated as CS: GO is an Online Multiplayer Tactical First Person Shooter Video game by Valve Corporation. Released back in 2012, the game offers amazing amounts of classic content such as new maps, characters, and game modes, cross-platform multiplayer game-play, regular updates and a huge amount of DLC. With an amazingly immersive objective-based multiplayer FPS game-play, Counter Strike: Global Offensive lets you join the teams (Counter-Terrorist Force or the Terrorists) and eliminate your enemies by the use of sophisticated weaponry and Tactics. Counter Strike: Global Offensive offers a number of fantastic and quite addictive game modes such as Classic Casual, Competitive, Bomb Scenario, Hostage Scenario, Arms Race, Demolition, Deathmatch etc. Furthermore, the game allows you to play the game offline with bots and enjoy all the fun. The Online Play option lets you go against your enemies, be part of a team and keep on enjoying the game. With a unique matchmaking system, Online game availability via Steam, Anti Cheat system, Dedicated Servers, Unique Elo Rating System, beautiful visuals and an addictive gameplay entertaining millions of online players, Counter Strike: Global Offensive is one of the most played and well liked game in the Counter Strike series.

Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 is an Action-Adventure, and Tactical Shooter video game set on the Eastern Front, revolving around World War II. The game centers in two superpower factions such as German and Soviet. It has both Single and Multiplayer modes, and it is a sequel to Red Orchestra: Combined Arms. In this title, the game features a practice mode to learn new abilities and moves. To get into the world, you have to select your nation and assume your role to progress through the game. Explore the world from a first-person perspective and shoot at enemies using weapons to kill them. The game provides an open environment where you move freely. Military-based vehicles and arms are available in the match that presents in the detailed environment. You can use up to thirty infantry weapons during the war. In Single-player campaign, you have to complete a variety of missions while in Multiplayer mode, you compete against up to fifty players simultaneously. Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 is the incredible game as compared to other First-person Shooter games.