“there’s no innovation left to make in the FPS space”

“FPSes are so oversaturated”

nono listen. mainstream FPSes have been stagnant for 15 years but there are also so many concepts left to explore. just look at Hideous Destructor and Receiver 2. either of those games could easily become entire spinoff genres but instead they’re left in obscurity while everyone is off making ultra-fast-paced PvP shooters and AAA interactive movie shooters, and indie devs are all making slight variations on the same boomer shooter formula

so simulation elements like in HDest and Receiver 2 are a completely untapped niche, but also consider the possibilities for open-ended imsim-y shooters with dynamic ludonarratives instead of scripted stories. like imagine an atmospheric open world survival shooter, like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. but without all of the forced story and scripted sections. I don’t know if I could name a good FPS that’s come out in the past 10 years that lets you open-endedly explore an open world at all

or even just… how about more singleplayer extraction shooters? I don’t think I could name a single one besides HOLE and HOLE was incredible

there’s also an entire middle ground between milsim shooters and arcadey shooters that feels totally unexplored to me. how about a brutal, gritty cyberpunk shooter with milsim elements? where you have to frantically administer first aid on yourself after being injured?

or what about Rainbow Six Siege gadgets in a singleplayer tactical shooter?

there are so. many. concepts and mechanics to explore. I don’t understand how people aren’t seeing that

@kasdeya

The Mil-Sim genre goes in that direction, Arma, Ready or not, Escape from Tarkov.

@Kaution hm that’s true! I tried Ready or Not at one point but unfortunately I don’t think the difficulty is tuned for singleplayer at all, and it seems like the other two are only designed for multiplayer. so I guess I’d love to see more singleplayer games with milsim elements – especially if they’re more stylized than the typical milsim

@kasdeya

"I’d love to see more singleplayer games with milsim elements – especially if they’re more stylized than the typical milsim"

Do you want it to be developed by weird Japanese? Then I've got you covered for as little as 5 €/$:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2971610/HOLE/

Review by IcarusLives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXxJJ-6CvlQ

He's also a great source for reviews on Doom mods.

@Kaution I loved HOLE! so this was a really really good suggestion - thank you! though unfortunately I’ve already played it

but also I don’t think I’ve heard of IcarusLives before! I’ll probably check out their channel when I get the energy because I always love Doom mods