Duckside is a less polished version of Deadside with bare-bones base building, worse visuals, horrifically bad gunplay and playable ducks.
Over four years after entering early access, Deadside appears stuck in the past, while the rest of the genre has moved on to bigger and better things.
Level Zero: Extraction is a nice attempt at unseating the king of the genre, but like all other pretenders before it, its attempts at unseating Escape from Tarkov will prove in vain.
How can Archor Games afford to release so many terrible asset flips onto Steam at $100 a title? I have no idea. Still, like the rest of their back catalogue, Multiplayer Shooters is a minimum-effort asset flip that is not worth playing.
While Songs of Conquest is one of the best strategy games of the last few years, it is not without issue and cannot rightfully be called a "masterpiece" despite coming very close to being one.
9Lives Arena is one of the worst games I have ever played and is a terrible example of what a good blockchain game could be.
Ten years ago, I would have been very excited to play The Front, yet in 2024, it's just too generic and uninspired to stand out in an already crowded genre.
While Soulmask goes a long way towards revitalising the sandbox survival genre, it's still early days, and some of the developer's design choices are questionable, to say the least.
After failing and flailing about like a decked fish for several years, Ubisoft not only has a successful free-2-play title, but it has created a game which has the potential to become a cornerstone of the FPS genre.