First-person shooter
Game genre concept
A shooter from first-person perspective with fairly free movement (not locked to a grid, rails, or autoscrolling) and view direction. As such, despite the name, simply being from 1st person perspective and being a shooter is not enough to qualify.
1971
games
82platforms
Alternate names: FPS
Name variations: 1st person shooter

JAG 1994-07

XBOX 2005-11-16

WIN 1998

WIN 2003-09-16

WII 2009-11-03

X360 2011-08-23

WIIU 2013-03-31

GEN 1998

XBOX 2002-10-15

MAC 1996

GBA 2001

DOS 1995
Activision, Electronic Arts and Ubisoft published most of these games.
Parent group
Child group
Platforms
By year
A | 1993 - First id Tech 1 game |
B | 1996 - First Quake engine game |
C | 1997 - First id Tech 2 game |
D | 1998 - First Unreal Engine 1 game |
E | 1999 - First id Tech 3 game |
F | 2002 - First Unreal Engine 2 game |
G | 2004 - First Source game 2004 - First id Tech 4 game |
H | 2006 - First Unreal Engine 3 game |
I | 2011 - First id Tech 5 game |
J | 2014 - First Unreal Engine 4 game |
K | 2016 - First id Tech 6 game |
L | 2020 - First id Tech 7 game |