15 BEST Single-Player First-Person Games You Probably Didn't Play [2023 Edition]

Despite what naysayers might have said, single-player games continue to keep a strong presence within the games industry to the point that many of the biggest games in the current market landscape are single-player releases.
Single-player games encompass a huge number of genres including but not limited to those played in the first-person perspective. The last few years have seen a large number of single-player first-person games that had impressive critical reception but eventually slipped under the radar for one reason or another.
With this feature, we will be putting a spotlight on such games and counting down 15 of the best single-player first-person games that you probably didn’t play - but definitely should.

[@saltarex]

0:30 1. System Shock Remake 1:13 2. Ghostrunner 1:47 3. Viewfinder 2:22 4. The Entropy Center 3:04 5. Wolfenstein 2: The New Collosus 3:35 6. Rage 2 4:10 7. Half-Life Alyx 4:51 8. Severed Steel 5:28 9. Far Cry 6 6:02 10. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow Of Chernobyl 6:38 11. Ghostwire: Tokyo 7:12 12. Shadow Warrior 3 7:43 13. The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter 8:13 14. Dishonored 2 9:05 15. Dying Light 2

[@mad-croatian]

🙏🙏🙏

[@chonky2129]

top tier youtube user

[@Microphunktv-jb3kj]

anyone taking a list seriously wich doesnt have Deus Ex is laughable...

[@mxs9994]

Legend

[@YannMetalhead]

Thank you!

[@Leo-pd4fc]

Single-player and first-person shooter are one of my favourite game categories, with this video I've will hear about new games what I didin't seen before thank you Gamingbolt. 🔥🔥

[@MrSkullMerchant]

The atmosphere from the first dying light was completely lost in dying light 2

[@chrismartin3959]

Thank you totally agree

[@shianemi7595]

it was definitely different than the first one but i liked it more

[@bartlebyscrivener674]

SERIOUSLY. And I just couldn't get used to player movement.... I felt completely out of control. Have played many games and NEVER experienced that before. So disappointed.

[@robertoeijs]

And not to mention the dlc with CARS.. its still very nice to play

[@brandoncook8300]

Dying light 2 was shit. Couldn’t even finish the beginning of the game

[@menegene4129]

Just got done going back through Ghostrunner. I went into Hardcore mode a while ago hoping I wouldn't regret it, but it's totally worth it if you love those game mechanics. Vanishing of Ethan Carter scratched a particular itch I was feeling after Firewatch, which is sadly missing from this list.

[@huntshowdown9834]

Ethan Carter and Firewatch are both tremendous games.

[@philgraves4998]

Not many people liked Rage 2 but I personally loved it! Fast paced fighting Doom style, awesome abilities/guns, great graphics/sound, high fps, day/night cycle, different biomes, fun enemies, long campaign! The only thing it lacked for me was the in between areas didn't have much.

[@spelaoxy]

I love Doom 2016 and i really liked Rage 2

[@WitchDoctor87]

Rage 2 is extremely underrated if anyone has been sitting on it. I've been playing it and really enjoyed it. Hope they keep making more Rage games. I felt it was perfect for what I wanted from a game.

[@pavlotverdokhlib7627]

+1 to GhostRunner. Was my GOTY in 2020, stoked for the sequel. Along the same lines as Entropy Centre, I would recommend "Backfirewall"

[@unchartedrocks1]

Trepang2 should be on the list!!

[@JM-it7db]

Far Cry 6 is great fun. I think game reviewers are often too critical of titles because gaming is their job. I’d hate anything I had to do for 8 hours a day. For us civilians, many of these “lackluster” games are exactly what we want. FC6 has cool side missions and very satisfying gun play. Felt the same thing happened to Biomutant and AC Valhalla.

[@EloquentSummerRaven]

I suspect severe critics on game like FarCry are in light to the series itself. Critics also considers what is the value proposition of a new iteration of the franchise, which is an important point imo.

[@MrSkullMerchant]

Farcry 6 and primal are my favs in the series

[@steweylil]

couldn’t have said it any better. farcry 6 is actually fun af

[@JustaGuy2.0]

Single Player games are and will always be the heart and soul of video games, so i don't know who told you they are "dying" but i bet it was kids or idiots.....or both.

[@dctrbrass]

If they ever went away I would defo stop playing games.

[@kbdc]

fr. EA was the dumbass entity that pretty much highlighted the idea of "single player games are dead". Yet when they released Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, it received critical success. Then you factor in Ubisoft. Pretty much the antithesis to what you mentioned about single player games by somehow turning them into a live service

[@zogmorp]

FYI: The classic Stalker games. All 3 of them are now available on X-Box for the first time ever. Great if you don't want to have to mess with all the crashing and bugs that are fixed with various mods and just want to play the game without worrying about that stuff.

[@arnoxelise]

Immersive single- player games are the best!

[@stash2823]

Timestamps would be very usefull here

[@jonnathan6225]

So you could just read the timestamps and skip the whole video? I mean he honestly does little more than say the name of the games and show some low res footage seemingly ripped from gameplay trailers... No offense @GamingBolt

[@majorgear1021]

You’ll watch it without chapters and like it! - Management

[@Quentin-pu8id]

What about Homefront The Revolution ? This game is the best "post-war" Far Cry. Most of the bugs have been patched, it runs at 120fps on Series X and it is damn fun to play... I really don't get the disdain for this game...

[@MrSkullMerchant]

Its like a farcry game? If so i gotta give it a try

[@SeriusChevy]

Yes I beat it a few years ago. Once you get the hang of it. It's a great game. I will replay it again on day

[@mikoajneronowicz582]

Cool! Quite a few titles from Poland made it to the list! Ghostrunner, Shadow Warrior 3, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Dying Light 2! It's good that the recognition of Polish productions is growing and it's not only Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 anymore.

[@AtomicEy]

(here again kicking the dead horse) the available platforms next to game name would be nice

[@bandiddid8583]

⭐So cool to see 2 games in this list that i indeed played earlier in this year 😃

[@realtalk4032]

Absolutely loved all the Shadow Warrior games highly recommended

[@appledrawss1353]

system shock is easily my goty, its basically every one of my favorite genres packed into one game

[@kbdc]

Single player fps games provide so much entertainment no matter the setting they take place in. I probably owe my love for this type of game cause of Peter Jackson's King Kong video game

[@aktrevor]

I really had lots of fun with Wolfenstein and rage 2

[@nossy232323]

I got Wolfenstein 2 The New Colossus, Half Life Alyx and Dishonored 2. Not sure why "we probably didn't play those games"?

[@thanoswasright3457]

Rage 2 is one of the best games ever

[@CathodeRayTube99]

Good informative video.

[@transporthummel]

Are you sure you didn't mix up Vanishing of Ethan Carter and What remains of Edith Finch?

[@creativeusername1129]

rage 2 has some really fun fps shooter combat and vehicular combat. Game got a lot of hate when it came out just for being open world

[@menegene4129]

Not sure it's just that it was open world. In terms of what was offered overall it seemed unrecognizable from what was seen before and left a lot of fans of the original scratching their heads.

[@HexxuSz]

Dude I played it twice and ngl it does suck in a lot of aspects like a lot

[@McGeezle]

The aiming on console made it completely unplayable for anyone with any standards

[@zxcv010]

The gameplay was fun but the world was just empty

[@Fargin_Icehole]

literally this, i tried so hard because i loved Rage but it was impossible @@McGeezle

[@benprins8240]

Absolutely love single player fps video games 😊😊 Starfield, Forgive Me Father, Prey, Doom Eternal, Ion Fury, Amid Evil, Wolfenstein 1, 2, Rage 2, Cyberpunk 2077. Some awesome ones.

[@mhorvath514]

Bioshock

[@benprins8240]

@@mhorvath514 yea that too

[@weaponcomparisoninvideogam5505]

That's 99% my list except I'd also add Bioshock.. DOOM and Wolfenstein are my favourite ones among all

[@benprins8240]

@@weaponcomparisoninvideogam5505 nice. Im addicted to Starfield these days and am playing through Aftershock and soon The Black Labrynth and Boltgun

[@McGeezle]

Don't understand the love for these 2.5D games that have you shooting literal cutouts

[@JYMBO]

There is NO shot you left Titanfall 2 off the list.

[@GameFame2.0]

Deathloop is by far my favorite game I have ever played

[@S3RAVA3LM]

New WRC in november. Miss the Dirt days.

[@s.p.e457eng8]

Haven’t gone back to dying light 2 at all or back 4 blood waiting on that Marvel Spider-Man 2 to come out so I can play hell out of it.

[@williamredmond1349]

Playing stalker for the first time and it surely is brutal but addicting

[@muhaiminbinmansur8417]

Trepang 2 Titanfall 2 SHOULD BE ON THE LIST

[@andersgaarde8201]

View finder is by far the most interesting game of 2023. 10/10 from me 👍

[@shreder75]

I couldn't get the hang of ghostrunner. Tried 3 times, couldn't do it.

[@idametheparagon]

same iyts so hard

[@eyrebear]

"Despite what 'many' might have thought" Many???? No realy gamer thought single player games were dying.

[@tkf28]

When you gonna give the sweet news about bloodborne remake

[@rmwarnick]

I really love Far Cry 6. Some dismissed it as "just another Far Cry game" but the beautiful open world setting, the lore, the music, and the fun extras made it special.

[@Rainbowhawk1993]

The Talos Principle!!!

[@sixten8493]

..is not an FPS.

[@SrNuno-tl5kc]

System shock game design looks like a 80s Disco... 😅

[@SrNuno-tl5kc]

If this where a GameSpot video I'm sure they'll put starfield on the list 😂

[@pacolopez6775]

This channel gets some underserved hate. But they actually have Good tips for games I haven’t played yet but I will definitely in The near future.

[@Cogitovision]

I game like I live: Inside my own body.

[@myusername3162]

Another wolfenstein would be wunderbar

[@unchartedrocks1]

If Half Life Alyx was on console & pc instead of just vr then it would have been played much more.

[@McGeezle]

Well it's designed around VR so playing it without that just ruins it. There's still a mod for it though

[@shreder75]

Good list, although i think Arkane games are overrated. What about: Get Even Titanfall 2 Observer Observation

[@ZacharysGamingExp96]

Singularity

[@Qwerty95ish]

Why do yourubers insist on not making a liat of the games in the description, put the game name in a corner or at least say the games name at the end of the description. I hate mising 10 seconds then having to search for what game was just talked about. So easy to not make us do that.

[@majorgear1021]

Because the AI can’t do it for them yet.

[@claudiosacchi3720]

play rage 2, it's a blast

[@mhorvath514]

I've know a few ppl who absolutely love that game. I never got around to it, gives me Borderlands vibes and I love me some Borderlands

[@AvengeXKing]

How you gonna put SOC and not even take like 10 seconds to explain that Anomaly has the best modpacks like EFP and GAMMA

[@stargreenx355]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 👍

[@Sebastian-oz1lj]

why everyone thinks first person must be a shooter ehh

[@UltimateCarDrawer567]

Bright memory infinite

[@francom.2698]

❓ *Time splitters 2* anyone ? Anyone ? 😮

[@sebastiangrimm4472]

I still hope they would make a remake

[@huntshowdown9834]

Obligatory Titanfall 2 is underrated comment

[@gomeettupoc50cent]

How do you not have the best one? Cyberpunk 2077? Epic fail!🤦‍♂️

[@batvanio]

First part of Dying Light was good, but second part was a total disappointment. I definitely wouldn't even play it a second time. Styx like I don't see it, and both parts are perfect, I don't see any of the Tomb Raider parts, and quite a few more amazing single player games. The first version of Shadow Warrior for Dos, although it is old and has bad graphics, is many times better than the new versions, which are boring.

[@jwz4794]

for the love of god add timestapms to your vids

[@garyhall3919]

dying light 2 was the only decent game on this list and i have already played through it

[@MrTrueCaller619]

Syndicate

[@pacolopez6775]

But timestamps wouldn’t hurt though.

[@majorgear1021]

Timestamps are racist! lol

[@sineater4077]

Starfield is my number one game of 2023 I have never wanted to finish

[@reversepsycho410]

At least put some time stamps

[@S3RAVA3LM]

Need. New. KILLZONE.

[@sjsharp2007]

Unfortunatel ythe people wh owere responsibl efo rKillzone now work on Horizon

[@benisrood]

Here's a tip: motion blur makes games look WORSE.

[@djpunyer8762]

Ghostwire Tokyo is one of the worst games I have ever played, it's boring as hell, the city looks awful in the sense that it's all the same and feels lifeless, the missions are not very good, the combat is very disappointing and the story isn't as good as it should have been either. How anyone can recommend that game is beyond me.

[@doupt]

eh idk. i think it was decent. i also loved the unnatural scenes they added. sounds like a u problem if u didn't have fun

[@mhorvath514]

I had the exact same feelings for Ghostwire Tokyo

[@MrWar2050]

Just because you didn't like it doesn't mean other people didn't. Narcissistic much?

[@weaponcomparisoninvideogam5505]

It was decent I'd say , probably like 7 out of 10 , I had fun (sometimes not) but overall good

[@dylangaletti395]

The fact that Dying Light 2 and Far Cry 6 are on this list immediately destroys any chance of me taking this list seriously. Both of those games are dogshit.

[@tdRockxc568]

Sony not a fan 😂 of this genre

[@MrWar2050]

They only make one type of game😂

[@dinand28]

fucking far cry 6 💀

[@condorX2]

Cyberpunk 2077 is still the best FPS 😅 Even my potato laptop can run it. My video is up if anyone is interested.

[@genericyoutubeusername6462]

Haldf of these aren't shooters

[@user-vz2qh2cx2k]

Zailtenegyankhaan

[@Agrinddandi]

Fps = first person shooter. Fps =/= first person view

[@zackwine7648]

i fkn hate first person games

[@fannste94]

These games are nothing special 😕

[@nossy232323]

Half Life Alyx is one of the best VR games.

[@fannste94]

@@nossy232323 I don't like VR in general, it looks really dumb to me 😕

[@nossy232323]

@@fannste94 It's really cool for some kind of games, like sim racing (e.g. Automobilista 2)

[@sixten8493]

@@fannste94 Flailing in your room, alone

[@midknight44]

Half Life Alyx is a masterpiece and one of the best gaming experiences I have ever had in over 30 years of gaming

[@PicassoMossana]

ghostwire tokio one of the worst, worst comments, low quality, people hates this game but still in the list. why?