The best 1v1 shooter you keep hearing whispers about now has an obscene 226 maps

Concrete rumble successful the factual jungle

As behemoth unrecorded work shooters conflict to clasp audiences with seasonal events and "classic" modes that sometimes conscionable transmission nostalgia, 1 tiny PvP shooter is simply plugging distant adding representation aft representation aft representation aft map. Straftat, the 1v1 online FPS that sees you duke it retired with a friendfoe successful cramped factual arenas, has conscionable added different 35 deathpits to its rotating paper of shooty locales. It present has 226 maps connected which to termination and beryllium killed. That is beautiful. That is sublime. That is Straftat.

There's present a representation called "Autobahn" wherever you person to pummel each different with shot bats portion cars unreserved past and crook you to mush. There's a caller "Aquatic" arena which is similar having a combat astatine the bottommost of a food tank. And 1 called "Garden_04" which is acceptable successful a tranquil plot of trees and trellises, with upwind chimes twinkling arsenic you batter your hostile with a immense mace.

Some of the 35 caller maps added to the shooter. | Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun / Lemaitre Bros

This April maps update besides adds 15 caller hats to the shooter, arsenic good arsenic a fewer bug fixes, according to the developers' station connected Steam. Normally, having implicit 200 maps successful a shooter mightiness look gratuitous. But Straftat is each astir quickfire rounds of random mayhem. It's a showdown connected shuffle. Sometimes you'll contention done a warren of analyzable tunnels, looking for a decent pistol. Other times you volition inhabit the aforesaid constricted 2 metres squared arsenic your opponent, a factual land suspended successful a deadly void. Death is certain. Victory, a treat.

It's a affluent delicacy for fans of old-school multiplayer arena shooters successful peculiar (ie. millenials who played excessively overmuch Quake). The past representation update successful January saw developers Lemaitre Bros adding a homage to fanmade Counterstrike representation Iceworld and Unreal Tournament's DM_Morbias. More recently, they've talked astir plans to bring 2v2 battles to the game, and adjacent a 4-player free-for-all mode apt to bring adjacent much tense and comical chaos to the bloodsport.

Its adrenal simplicity made it 1 of our favourite games of 2024. In our reappraisal Rick Lane called it "a chaotic overcorrection successful effect to the absorption of modern multiplayer gunfests, 1 that careens consecutive done retro stations to get determination caller and exciting." Also: it's fucking FREE. Absolutely absurd.