I’ve been playing Albion Online for a while now. First time I tried it was when it became f2p but it didn’t catch me back then. In following years I tried to get in it two or three times but it still couldn’t hold me longer than a week or so. About two months ago I gave AO yet another chance and finally it got me. I’ve been playing it actively since then.
Yesterday I tried Warborne Above Ashes but got bored after 70 mins (Steam game time). Maybe I should give it another chance later too but at least now I’m not interested at all.
PC games would allow everyone to play with whatever controller they prefer.
In general, mainstream/casual audiences will enjoy games like Fifa (or maybe the NBA or NFL equivalent since you’re US) and, if you’ve got a Nintendo console, Mario Kart is a very popular casual tournament game with the option to play as teams as well.
If the participants play shooters, things like (older) Call of Duty games, Overwatch, and maybe Fortnite for more modern audiences are decent options. If they’re more competitive, Counterstrike 2 or Valorant are good as well. Retro Gamers might like Halo or Quake as well.
If they’re into strategy you could play Civilization or Age of Empires, though those games might take a bit long.
For Racing Games, Trackmania is a Time Trial game with a Hot Seat mode, where players take turns trying to drive the fastest time on a track with a time limit. Otherwise, Sonic Racing could be an alternative to Mario Kart that’s available on PC, or you could try a Sim (Forza Motorsport is good for controllers and has split-screen, Assetto Corsa is a more hardcore Simulator which would require multiple setups)
Unreal Tournament used to be my go-to… 25 years ago. I had the bots set up just right, so if I got a good look at one, I knew what I was up against. Some were harder than others. You could customise each bot, so you really had some pretty fine control over the gameplay.
As best I can tell, the modern iteration of Unreal Tournament is called “Fortnite,” which is nice because it’s free to play, and it’s fucking gorgeous, but all the paid content, the gestures and memes, it just wears me out. I just wanna shoot. It works best when one of my little nephews is online and they wanna team up, I let them do the memes and stuff and I circle around and flank their enemies. I’m in my 40s, pair me up with a grade school kid who can play decently and we win every time. It’s funny.
As much as people dump on the game, it has the gunplay I like and it’s pretty to look at, but I wish there was just regular old Unreal Tournament still. I’m sure I could get the GOG version of UT’99 running on my Mac with Whisky; it’s obviously not gonna run on my Switch or Xbox, where I can play Fortnite (Epic doesn’t make it for the Mac anymore).
Otherwise, and when it’s just me, it’s Cyberpunk. I have it on both my Xbox and my Macs. Yes, it actually runs on a computer that’s like 7.75"x7.75"x1" (and the M4 Mac is smaller, and more capable with ray tracing). No dedicated GPU
Now I just gotta find a GOG backup of UT’99. I don’t know if GOG lost the rights to that and Deus Ex, but both are gone from my library. (I still have Unreal 1, and Deus Ex 2 and Human Revolution, though.) Shouldn’t be hard to find an archived copy out there though.
I don’t see Soldier of Fortune mentioned, so this is my pick. Yes, it’s old, but back in the day it had the best gun play I saw. Haven’t played it in over decade, but it can’t be that bad, can it?
I still regularly play L4D2 with friends. Also it’s modded beyond all recognition. Zombies are anime girls. Tanks are Donkey Kong. Witches are hatsune miku. Smokers are yoshi. Hunters are assassins creed hoodies. And more. Every weapon is something else. The graffiti in safe rooms are Jayden Smith tweets. The list goes on and on. I love playing it with friends.
That being said, in 2025, while I love L4D2, in 2025 I think World War Z is the best Left 4 Dead-like. Terrible movie, great book. Great movie based game.
I honestly might recommend escape from tarkov, it’s just that I honestly don’t respect the devs very much. But it’s a very good game, you can play on PvE mode so no need to worry about timezones or anything like that. It has a incredibly in depth gun system since its pretty much just real gun mechanics, and I honestly love that about the game, it has taught me so much about guns and their attachments. The one thing is that it can have a low time to kill, but there’s an in depth armor mechanic to the game that can change that. On top of all that, it’s an extraction shooter, which conceptually is literally just an fps roguelite. Just a warning, it doesn’t allow Linux users if you are one, even for PvE mode, but there’s a mod you can get called SPT(single player tarkov), and it allows you to play on Linux on top of allowing you to mod it further.
I didn’t say I respected the developers, in fact I specifically said I didn’t respect them, I’m just saying that its a good game with similar gameplay mechanics to what op was looking for
Find a popular multiplayer shooter that you like and play that.
You’re not going to get any sort of “deep gunplay” against bots, no matter the game. The technology just isn’t there yet. Sorry but you’re going to have to put up with humans if you want a good, deep experience that doesn’t become repetitive and predictable.
Why bring politics into gaming? It’s a good game. Acting like not buying the video game is going to bankrupt the Kremlin is pure ignorance. If you’re a us citizen you are directly supporting multiple wars every time you pay taxes so big fuckin deal.
I’m not a us citizen, and there’s a big difference between the government uses my taxes for war to a game will use my money for war. You have no choice over the taxes, but by knowing this and still buying the game, you’re saying that your hours of entertainment are more valuable than people’s lives. And yeah, not buying the game won’t bankrupt the Kremlin, but it’s like throwing gasoline to a fire, you’re fueling the war, imagine someone whose house is on fire and throws gasoline in it because “the fire won’t extinguish if I stop throwing gasoline in it”
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