is this the best Retro FPS on Steam?

[kijib]

what game if any comes close/beats it? I saw only Ultrakill has higher review score but art style is not fir me and also early access can change if the game is never finished

[Killerspinach]

It's my favorite but there many other good ones.

Ion Fury is a close 2nd.

[AC1D R4!N]

tbh nothing will ever beat Quake. Love Dusk but Quake is just perfection

[V I D A L]

If you mean retro in general.. definitely no. The real retro ones are still better like Quake, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Blood... Now if you say recently release retro style FPS.. then the answer is also no.

It's part of a trio of top tier retro fps that includes Dusk, Ion Fury and Amid Evil. They are all equally great... but if I have to pick one, I'd go with Ion Fury for authenticity. It's actually a proper build engine game (even though running on source port). While Amid Evil and Dusk are running on Unreal and Unity respectively and they have that phony feeling to them.

[kijib]

I prefer the 3Dness and aesthetic of Dusk, don’t rly care for flat DOOM/Duke3D/Hexen likes anymore

Amid Evil is prbly best for Hexen

Ion Fury for Duke/Doom

and Dusk for Quake/Half Life

[Ayva]

Duke 3d and Blood are on par if not better.

[V I D A L]

Originally posted by kijib:

I prefer the 3Dness and aesthetic of Dusk, don’t rly care for flat DOOM/Duke3D/Hexen likes anymore

Amid Evil is prbly best for Hexen

Ion Fury for Duke/Doom

and Dusk for Quake/Half Life

Preposterous

[Boksha]

I've been replying Quake lately (the 25th anniversary edition) and... not counting the two bonus episodes (Dimension of the Past and Dimension of the Machine) it's not nearly as good as I remembered it. So... hot take: nowadays, Dusk is a better game than Quake. Many of the 90s shooters hold up well; Doom and Doom II (as well as the other Doom engine games), Dark Forces, Duke Nukem 3-D, Blood (and the other Build3d games), Unreal, Hexen II, Half-Life, SiN, probably more, are still great fun. Quake just didn't age well at all and I'm beginning to think the only reason I have such fond memories of it is because it was unique when it came out.

[kijib]

yeah def Quake has aged and it shows it needed a Dusk update/modernization

[Wehzy]

There is no best classic FPS game if you ask me but DUSK is amazing and if youre into oldschool FPS games i'd recommend to check out AMID Evil aswell.

[limelight1210]

Doom II is still the best retro fps in my opinion. However this game is more methodical in gameplay compared to the balls out hordes of demons in the doom games. But I'm only on E1M7 at the moment so I'm guessing it'll probably ramp up more and more.

[Sleeves]

The closest thing to DUSK that maintains a high level of quality is HROT. It's unfortunately still pretty early in development (1.5 episodes available), but I'd recommend it heavily regardless.

[Ghom]

I think Dusk is the best of the "new" boomer shooters... I want to love Amid Evil but I hate the narrow path level design. Ion Fury is good as well but I've never much cared for the build engine, just a personal preference thing.

[Helen Keller Light Festival]

Quake is the god-king champion for me. My issue with a lot of the build-engine games is that hit-scan enemies suck, so as much as I enjoy Blood, it can still feel like a pain in the ass to play. Still love it, just that Quake will always be my BB.

But I put a hard gap between the old games and the new. For me Dusk and Prodeus are the two games of the new-era Boomer-Shooters that feel amazing. Shout out to HROT, Amid Evil, Ion Fury, and even Wrath (I haven't played Overkill, so maybe even that?), but Dusk and Prodeus really have just stood out as the cream of a particularly-grand crop.

[R_e_M972]

Don't know about best, but I love Ultrakill

[Dawido]

Originally posted by kijib:

what game if any comes close/beats it? I saw only Ultrakill has higher review score but art style is not fir me and also early access can change if the game is never finished

It's cool, but i think that DooM is better