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MrEUser Jun 21, 2023

OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre

OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre - Lemmy Ninja Clan

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ninja/post/10393 [https://lemmy.ninja/post/10393] > “Boomer shooter” is the latest term to follow the likes of “Roguelike” or “Soulslike” in the realm of hyperspecific gaming subgenres. It applies to first-person shooters that intentionally harken back to the classic PC games of the late ‘90s like Doom and Quake. >

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Bri Guy Jun 21, 2023

DOOM and Quake are awesome games. My friend recommends DUSK on Steam, haven't tried it yet but it looks like old school quake.

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weirdo_from_space

Dusk is fucking awesome, that's where the boomer shooter revival truly began. Dusk was so good that many other devs looked at it and went "hey, we gotta make an awesome game like that as well!". And then came Amid Evil, then Ion Fury, then Project Warlock... and the rest is history.

And now they are making successors to other classic games like Half-Life and F.E.A.R. And also retro inspired but very much original titles like Ultrakill.