Best FPS Games for Ubuntu – Stream, Install and Play First Person Shooters

The biggest game in the world, and it streams to Ubuntu without a single install.

You do not install anything and you do not touch Proton. Sign in to Boosteroid or GeForce NOW, open Fortnite, and you are in the same lobby as everyone on PlayStation, Xbox, Switch and phones. Your account, skins and progress are the ones you already have, because it is the real game running on a real Windows machine, just not yours. On a decent connection it is indistinguishable from a local install.

Multiplayer, Zombies and Warzone, all streaming to a Linux desktop.

You can now sprint and dive in any direction rather than only forwards, which sounds like a small thing and completely changes how the tight maps play. You get the campaign, the best Zombies in years and Warzone in one purchase. It streams on both Boosteroid and GeForce NOW, so an Ubuntu machine plays it exactly as a Windows one does, and the round trip on a decent line is not something you notice in a gunfight.

Sixty four players, buildings that come down, and the series back on form.

Destruction is the point again. Walls come down, floors collapse, and the map at the end of a round looks nothing like the map at the start. Squads matter, vehicles matter, and the class system is back to something recognisable. It is a heavy game and streaming sidesteps that entirely: GeForce NOW runs it on hardware far better than most people own, so an old ThinkPad gets the same frame rate as a new tower.

Squad based battle royale where the movement is still the best in the genre.

Everything is built around momentum. You slide down hills, bounce off walls, ride zip lines and grapple, and a good team moves through a fight rather than sitting in it. Characters have real abilities so your team composition is a decision. It streams on GeForce NOW, and because you are playing on their machine your Ubuntu install never comes into it. Free to play, so the only thing you are paying for is the streaming plan.

Five on five, one life a round, and every wall is a door if you want it to be.

You do not respawn. You blow a hole in a wall, send a little drone in ahead of you, and lose because somebody heard you. Siege X rebuilt the whole thing in 2025 with new lighting, destructible pipes and fire, and made it free to play. Streaming has a real advantage here: PC matchmaking includes cloud players, so you are in the proper PC pool rather than off on your own. Take a few rounds to learn one map rather than bouncing between all of them.

The multiplayer is free, the guns feel superb, and it streams beautifully.

Halo has always been about how long a fight lasts, and Infinite is the best that has felt in a decade. Shields mean you win by out manoeuvring rather than by clicking first, and the grappling hook turns every map into something you can move around. Multiplayer costs nothing. Streaming is the right route on Ubuntu: it runs on both Boosteroid and GeForce NOW and you skip the compatibility question entirely.

Bungie have been perfecting how a gun feels since Halo, and it shows.

Every weapon has weight, recoil and a sound that tells you what it did. The free part is enormous on its own: several campaigns, all the player against player modes, and plenty to do with other people, before you buy anything. The six player missions are what people stay for, part fight and part puzzle, with nothing explained to you. It streams on Boosteroid and GeForce NOW, which is by far the easiest way to run it on Ubuntu.

You wake up with a rock and a torch, and everything after that is other people.

It is a shooter, but the shooting is the last five percent. The rest is gathering, building a base you hope holds, and the constant knowledge that somebody is watching your door. Every server is reset on a set day and everyone starts again from nothing, which is the best time to join. It streams on both services, and given how demanding it is at scale, that is the sensible way in unless you have a strong machine.

Bungie’s newest shooter, and the best looking thing in this section.

Flat colour, hard shapes and neon, closer to a graphic novel than to the brown realism most shooters land on. You go in as a team of three, pull what you can carry off a hostile world, and lose the lot if you do not get out. That risk is the whole game and it makes a quiet corridor genuinely tense. It is on Boosteroid, so an Ubuntu machine plays it the day it updates.

Big open battles, a raid mode, and none of it costs anything to try.

Two games in one. Havoc Warfare is the big mode, sixty four players, vehicles, helicopters and objectives across a wide map. Operations is the tense one, where you go in with gear, try to find better gear, and leave before somebody takes it off you. Full cross-play with PlayStation and Xbox, so nobody you know is left out. It streams on GeForce NOW and the free part is generous enough to be a real game.

The game every shooter since has been quietly copying, and it costs less than lunch.

Twenty years on it is still the best paced shooter you can buy, because it never stops introducing things. A crowbar, then a gravity gun, then a beach full of mines, then a car. Nothing is padded. It has a proper Linux version, it will run on a laptop from a decade ago, and the free anniversary update tidied up the parts that had aged. If you have never played it, start here rather than with anything newer.

The one that turned a shooter into something closer to a fighting game.

You are always nearly empty, so you are always moving toward something to kill for more. Chainsaw for bullets, flame for armour, glory kill for health. Once it clicks you stop thinking about it and start playing at a speed nothing else asks for. Gold on Proton with over twelve hundred reports. Turn the difficulty down one notch from where your pride wants it and you will enjoy it far more.

Medieval DOOM, with a shield you throw and a dragon you ride.

Eternal wanted you in the air. This one plants you on the ground and hands you a shield saw to block with, parry with and throw. It is slower, heavier and much more about standing your ground, which upset some people and won over a lot more. There are levels where you pilot a mech and one where you ride a dragon. Gold on Proton with three hundred and fifty reports already.

An alternate history where the Nazis won, and a one man argument against that.

You expect a loud shooter and you get one, but you also get long quiet stretches in a safehouse where people talk about what they have lost. BJ Blazkowicz turned out to be a much better character than anyone asked for. The shooting is heavy and satisfying, there is a stealth route through most levels if you want it, and it runs at Platinum on Proton with over two hundred and fifty reports behind that. Play it before the sequel.

The sequel moves the fight to occupied America and gets much stranger.

This one is angrier, funnier and less even than the first. The combat asks more of you and punishes standing still, so a few fights will stop you dead until you change how you approach them. What it does better than almost anything is atmosphere: a small town parade under occupation, a diner where the wrong answer gets you shot. Platinum on Proton and the performance is good even on modest hardware.

A train ride across a ruined Russia, one season and one region at a time.

Most big shooters make you take Proton on trust. This one ships a native Linux version, and it is one of the best looking games you can put on an Ubuntu machine. The structure is unusual: large open areas separated by tight linear chapters, with crafting you do at a workbench rather than in a menu. Ammunition is scarce enough to matter. Play it with ranger difficulty on and the HUD off for the version the designers clearly preferred.

A Caribbean island under a dictatorship, and a very long list of things to blow up.

Yara is enormous and genuinely nice to be in, which is not something every open world manages. You get a horse, a wingsuit, a boat and a rocket launcher strapped to a rucksack, and the game rarely stops you using any of them. Platinum on Proton and it holds a steady frame rate on mid range hardware. Do the side stories about the island rather than only the main path, because that is where the writing is better.

You run along walls for five minutes, then a giant robot lands next to you.

It is six hours long and there is not a wasted level in it. One of them hands you a device that swaps you between two versions of the same building, and it would have carried a whole game somewhere else. The movement is the best in any shooter, full stop: wall running and sliding that feel effortless within ten minutes. Gold on Proton with more than eight hundred reports. The multiplayer still has players, and the campaign alone is worth the money.

You are a machine that drinks blood, and standing still is how you die.

Health only comes back when you are close enough to get hit, so the game pulls you forward into everything you would normally back away from. It grades every fight, which sounds like a chore and turns into the reason you replay levels. The presentation is deliberately cheap looking and the movement underneath it is anything but. Platinum on Proton with nearly four hundred reports, and it runs on almost any machine you own.

Slow down time, kick a door off its hinges, and leave before anyone stands up.

Short, loud and completely uninterested in wasting your time. Bullet time, a shoulder charge that goes through walls, and enemies who react to the noise you make. Levels take twenty minutes and there is a mode that just throws waves at you once the story is done. Platinum on Proton, and it is one of the few shooters on Amazon Luna, so it streams as well as it installs.

Built in the DOOM engine, and it looks nothing like a game from 1993.

They open doors, take cover behind furniture that then gets destroyed, call for help and try to flank you. It is the smartest enemy behaviour in any shooter on this page and it is running on technology older than most of the people playing it. There is a native Linux build, it barely touches your hardware, and the whole thing is beautifully made. It is still being added to, and what is already there is a full game.

A Space Marine, a very large gun, and no interest in cover at all.

You do not need to have read anything. It is a 1990s shooter with modern lighting and a sprite based Space Marine who moves far faster than his armour suggests. Chainsword a heretic, pick up the ammunition he drops, repeat. Levels are big enough to get lost in and there are secrets in the walls. Platinum on Proton with over a hundred and twenty reports, and it runs on a machine that cannot handle anything else here.

Six Halo games in one purchase, and your friends on Xbox can join you.

Combat Evolved, 2, 3, ODST, Reach and Halo 4, all in one launcher, all with their multiplayer intact and all cross-play with Xbox. That is a lot of shooter for the price. It sits at Gold with over eight hundred and sixty Proton reports, which is more evidence than almost anything else here. Turn off platform based matchmaking in the network settings or you will only ever see other PC players.

Millions of guns, four players, and every platform in the same lobby.

PlayStation 5, Xbox Series consoles, Steam, Epic and Switch 2 all play together, which means almost nobody you know is locked out. The shooting is the best the series has managed and the traversal is new: a grapple and a glide that turn the map into something you move through rather than across. Gold on Proton with three hundred reports already. It is the most demanding game here, so if your machine struggles, stream it.

The one before, cheaper, and with the same everyone plays together list.

It goes on sale constantly and it is a very large game: four characters, a campaign past thirty hours, and four player co-op across Xbox, PlayStation, Mac, Steam and Epic. Cross-play arrived late but it is here now and it covers everything. Gold on Proton with nearly six hundred reports. The writing is weaker than the third game and the guns are better, which is the trade most people are happy to take.

Four dwarves, a fully destructible cave, and no way out but down.

Every cave is generated and every inch of it can be dug through, so the route is whatever your team makes. Four classes with jobs that genuinely need each other: someone lights the place up, someone builds the platforms, someone carries the heavy gun. Platinum on Proton across sixteen hundred reports. The community is famously decent, which for an online game is worth saying out loud. Rock and stone.

Four survivors, a horde, and the game quietly deciding when to panic you.

There is a system running behind it that watches how you are doing and places the next horde accordingly, so no two runs of the same campaign feel the same. Four people, one route, and it falls apart the moment somebody wanders off. It has a native Linux build, costs about a tenner and goes on sale constantly, and the workshop has enough campaigns to last years.

Six of you, a locked map, and waves of things that used to be people.

Full cross-play at launch across Steam, Epic, PlayStation and Xbox, so you organise the evening rather than the platform. Rounds are short, the class system gives everyone a job, and the trader phase between waves is where the arguing happens. It is newer than most things here so the Proton report count is lower, at Gold on forty two reports, but it is consistent and it streams on both services.

A Louisiana swamp, twelve players, and everybody can hear you reload.

Crows scatter when you run past them. Dogs bark. A horse kicks a fence. Every one of those tells somebody else where you are, and you are listening for theirs. You go in to kill a boss and extract with the bounty, and the extraction is where it usually goes wrong. Gold on Proton with seven hundred reports. Slow, frightening and completely unlike anything else here.

A police raid where kicking the door in is usually the wrong answer.

You clear a building room by room with a team, and the game wants you to shout warnings, use mirrors under doors and arrest people rather than shoot them. Rushing gets somebody killed within seconds. It is bleak in places and it is the most deliberate shooter on this page. Gold on Proton with six hundred and fifty reports. Best with friends and a headset, and it has AI teammates if you have neither.

A hundred players, real squads, and somebody on a microphone giving orders.

You join a squad of nine, a squad leader tells you where to dig in, and a commander above him calls in support. Walking to the fight takes minutes and dying means walking again, which is exactly why holding ground feels like it cost something. Gold on Proton with six hundred and forty reports. It asks for a microphone and about an hour a sitting, and it gives back more than any other shooter here.

Fifty a side in the jungle, and the newest thing on this page by a long way.

It arrived on 13 August 2026 and it already runs well, at Gold on ProtonDB, which is a lot of evidence for a game this new. Unlike the original Hell Let Loose it puts PC and console players in the same match, so the friend on a PlayStation is in. It is heavy: expect to drop the settings on the jungle maps even on a decent card, because the vegetation is what costs you.

No health bar, no crosshair by default, and one bullet is usually enough.

It is quiet for long stretches and then extremely fast for four seconds. There is no minimap telling you where anyone is, so you listen, and your team talks or dies. Cross-play covers PlayStation, Xbox and PC, and it also matches you by input, so a mouse and keyboard player is put with other mouse and keyboard players. Gold on Proton with six hundred and forty eight reports, the deepest evidence here after Halo.

Wide French maps, one rifle, and a bullet you follow all the way in.

You are given a large area, several ways in, and no reason to hurry. Wind and distance both matter, and the game shows you exactly what your shot did, which is either the best or the worst part depending on your stomach. Cross-play works across every platform, so a friend on console can drop into your campaign or hunt you in the invasion mode. Gold on Proton and it streams on both services.

Forty players, three eras, and a Star Destroyer overhead while you argue about heroes.

It launched badly, got fixed over three years, and what is left is the best looking Star Wars multiplayer there has been. Galactic Assault puts forty of you on Hoth or Naboo with vehicles and heroes, and the campaign is a short, decent story told from the Imperial side. Gold on Proton with nearly five hundred reports, and it is on both cloud services if you would rather stream it.

Second World War, one hundred players, and nobody is telling you where to go.

A hundred people on one map, held together by squad leaders and a commander, with supply lines and artillery that other players are actually running. Walking to the front takes a while and that is deliberate, because ground you take feels like it cost something. Gold on Proton across three hundred and eighty two reports. Bring a microphone. It is the one game here where talking is most of the skill.

Two hundred and fifty four players, buildings that fall down, and blocky little soldiers.

It looks like a toy and it is one of the largest scale shooters you can buy. The simple art is the point: two hundred and fifty four people, vehicles and destructible buildings all at once, on hardware that would fall over trying the same thing in a photorealistic game. Fifteen pounds or so, servers are always busy, and it is Gold on Proton across four hundred and eighty reports.

Brown, fast, and the reason a whole genre moves the way it does.

Nothing about it is slow. You blast yourself into the air with a rocket, you never stop moving, and the whole game is over in a few hours if you are good. The re-release added the two official expansions, a fan made campaign and online play, so what you buy now is far more than the 1996 disc. It runs on absolutely anything, including a laptop with no graphics card worth the name, and it is Platinum on Proton on over two hundred reports.

A physics experiment goes wrong and you spend a day walking home.

It never takes the camera away from you, which was unheard of at the time and is still rare now. The pacing sags in the last third, everybody says so, and the first three hours are as good as anything since. It has a native Linux build, it is about two hundred megabytes, and it will run on a machine you were about to throw away. Platinum on Proton for anyone who prefers the Windows version.

Half-Life rebuilt from scratch by fans, and the last act finally works.

Xen, the alien world at the end of the original, was the section people apologised for. This version rebuilds it into several hours of the best looking level design in the game. Everything before it is the Half-Life you remember with modern lighting and much better sound. There is a native Linux build, it is Gold on Proton with four hundred and forty eight reports, and it asks very little for how it looks.

Cornfields, cultists, and a soundtrack that will not let you stand still.

It looks like 1996 and moves like nothing from 1996. Three episodes, each stranger than the last, and an endless arena mode when you are done. There is a native Linux build and it will run on a netbook. If you have never tried an old style shooter and want to know what people mean, start here rather than going back to the originals, because it keeps the speed and drops the fiddly parts.

Built in the Duke Nukem engine in 2019, with neon streets you can walk into.

Every building opens. You find a bowling alley, a police station, an arcade with the lights still on, and all of it connects rather than sitting behind loading screens. Shelly is a good lead and the guns have weight. It is native Linux, it is Platinum on Proton, and it will run on integrated graphics without complaint. The expansion adds a grappling hook that changes how you move through the same city.

Swap the guns for staves and axes and the corridors for floating temples.

Seven worlds, each built around a different colour and a different weapon, and several of them are genuinely beautiful. There are no guns at all, which sounds like a gimmick and changes how the fights work, because everything you carry is short range or slow. Platinum on Proton, light on hardware, and one of the few shooters on Amazon Luna if you would rather stream it.

Modern lighting over deliberately chunky sprites, and a level editor built in.

There is a browser inside the game for levels other people have made, with ratings, and some of them are better than the official campaign. The base game is a solid, very red shooter with a good weapon set and a lot of gore. Platinum on Proton with seventy two reports. Buy it if you want something you will still be opening in a year, because the level list keeps growing without you paying anything more.