10 Best Looter Shooter Games

The next weapon should give you a reason to change how you fight, not simply make an inventory number larger. These looter shooters approach that promise through co-op campaigns, repeatable missions, build crafting and compact randomized runs. Some are ongoing online games; others are adventures you can finish and revisit. The useful question is how much time you want to spend chasing the next improvement.

Looking for somewhere to start?

• Borderlands 4 for a large co-op loot adventure.
• Warframe for movement and long-term customization.
• Roboquest for short randomized shooting runs.

10. Roboquest

Best for loot decisions inside quick runs · PC · Solo; two-player online co-op

A restored robot and a young scavenger provide the starting point for a journey across a hostile future Earth. The broad mission gives the combat a destination, but character drama is not the main reason to return. The unfolding route and the machines opposing you carry most of the adventure.

Slide into an arena, scoop up a different weapon and decide whether the new rhythm is worth abandoning the gun you already understand. Roboquest compresses the loot chase into a fast roguelite run, with movement and aiming doing as much work as the equipment you find.

Runs give temporary combinations room to shine, while persistent unlocks offer reasons to return after a defeat. It is the pick for players who like weapon discovery but do not want another weekly activity calendar. Bring an online partner for a shared run, or play alone when improvising a build at your own speed sounds better.

9. The First Descendant

Best for collecting characters and equipment · PC · Online action; solo missions and co-op

Humanity’s defense of Ingris depends on Descendants who can wield unusual inherited abilities against invading forces. That conflict gives the repeatable missions and boss encounters a shared purpose. The story supplies the wider war; developing a character and helping with the next operation provide the ongoing personal goals.

Swap to a Descendant with a different ability kit and familiar missions become an opportunity to rethink your equipment. The First Descendant joins character collection to a weapon-and-module chase, placing repeatable combat and cooperative boss encounters at the center of its appeal.

This is a free-to-play online game, so progression systems, purchases and repeated activities are part of the package rather than incidental extras. It suits somebody who enjoys building toward a particular character setup over many sessions. If a self-contained story with a firm ending is the goal, one of the paid campaign games here is a clearer match.

8. OUTRIDERS

Best for aggressive ability combinations · PC · Solo; up to three online

An attempt to establish humanity on Enoch runs into a violent anomaly that changes both the world and its survivors. Your Outrider emerges with powers and a reason to search for answers. The campaign follows that search across a dangerous planet without requiring its later revelations to make the premise interesting.

Drop an ability into a crowded fight and keep attacking to sustain the momentum. OUTRIDERS gives its classes distinctive combat loops, with weapons, armor and mods supporting the way you use those powers rather than replacing them with passive stat increases.

The campaign follows an expedition into a hostile world where strange forces have changed its survivors. There is room to chase stronger combinations afterward, but the central attraction is a directed action-RPG adventure instead of an endless shared-world schedule. It works well for players who want a campaign to carry their loot hunt; online connectivity is still required even when playing alone.

7. Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands

Best for fantasy-flavored gun builds · PC · Solo; online co-op

You are the Fatemaker in a fantasy campaign run by Tiny Tina, with the Dragon Lord giving the adventure a suitably theatrical threat. Because Tina is also telling the tale, the setting can change with her imagination. The fun is following a quest that treats storytelling itself as part of the scenery.

A fantasy quest takes a sudden turn because the person running it has another idea. Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands wraps familiar loot-shooting in a tabletop-inspired adventure, mixing guns with spells and class combinations that encourage a little experimentation.

The changing environments and playful framing give the campaign its own personality, while equipment keeps suggesting another way to clear a fight. It is the more whimsical selection for someone who likes Borderlands’ underlying rhythm but wants a different setting. The PC edition supports online cooperative play rather than couch split-screen, an important distinction if the plan is a shared-screen fantasy evening.

6. Borderlands 3

Best for a broad established weapon sandbox · PC · Solo; online co-op

A new Vault Hunter joins the fight against the Calypso Twins and their increasingly dangerous following. That sends the crew beyond Pandora in pursuit of vaults, allies and a way to stop the threat. It is a planet-hopping adventure whose surprises work better without an advance account of every character’s fate.

Find a weapon that behaves absurdly, fire it once and immediately start looking for enemies to try it on. Borderlands 3 is at its best when a new drop changes the feel of a fight, with several Vault Hunters providing different ability trees around that enormous gun collection.

Its campaign moves between planets rather than keeping the whole adventure on Pandora. Side activities and optional expansions give a settled build more places to work, although those expansions are not all part of the base purchase. This is the established alternative for players happy to explore an earlier game with a substantial collection of equipment to chase.

5. Remnant II

Best for builds tested by demanding encounters · PC · Solo; up to three online

Human survivors are caught in a struggle against the Root, a threat that reaches beyond one familiar world. Traveling through strange realms becomes part of finding a way to resist it. The campaign gives those places a connection while leaving room for individual adventures to reveal their own stories.

A boss forces you to move differently, and suddenly a ring or weapon mod you ignored starts to look useful. Remnant II ties its equipment decisions to encounters that demand attention, blending gunplay with dodging, distinctive archetypes and worlds that can reveal different content across playthroughs.

Your character is searching through strange places connected by a dangerous wider mystery. The changing routes and rewards make another adventure useful beyond repeating the exact same campaign. It is the best fit here for players who want loot to support problem-solving under pressure. Cooperation helps share the work, but it does not turn every fight into a simple damage race.

4. Tom Clancy’s The Division 2

Best for cover-based team builds · PC · Solo activities; online co-op

Washington, D.C. is struggling after a pandemic, and competing armed groups are taking advantage of the collapse. As an agent, your work connects immediate rescue and security problems to the larger effort to restore stability. Individual operations supply the human scale beneath the equipment chase.

Move between pieces of cover while a teammate’s skill controls another approach. The Division 2 makes positioning part of the loot chase: equipment sets, weapons and deployed tools work best when they support a role you can actually use in a fight.

Its damaged Washington, D.C. provides a grounded contrast to the cosmic settings elsewhere here. Missions and endgame activities give players reasons to refine a setup, with expansions and additional content needing their own purchase checks. Pick it for deliberate third-person firefights and cooperative roles. Even solo play takes place within an online game, rather than an offline campaign you can disconnect from its servers.

3. Destiny 2

Best for gun feel and cooperative encounters · PC · Online; solo activities and multiplayer

Your Guardian belongs to the force protecting humanity’s remaining foothold in a solar system shaped by competing powers. Different campaigns explore different threats and relationships, so there is no single short plot that describes every activity. The consistent thread is defending that fragile future alongside other Guardians.

Land a shot with a weapon that feels exactly right, then build a Guardian around keeping that rhythm going. Destiny 2 combines distinctive guns, subclasses and armor choices with activities that range from short missions to demanding encounters built around communication.

The appeal is as much learning what a team needs as finding stronger equipment. Its ongoing structure also makes access more complicated than a single boxed campaign: free content, expansions and other purchases cover different activities. It is a strong choice for players who enjoy returning to an online game with a group. Someone seeking one complete, permanently straightforward story purchase should start elsewhere.

2. Warframe

Best for movement-driven long-term progression · PC · Online; solo and cooperative missions

The Tenno awaken into a solar system divided by hostile factions, carrying powerful Warframes into conflicts whose history is not immediately clear. Early missions introduce that struggle before the wider story opens up. It is worth letting those discoveries arrive naturally instead of reading an explanation of the Tenno’s deeper origins first.

Bullet-jump across a room, switch weapons and bring a Warframe’s abilities into the same flowing attack. Warframe’s equipment hunt feels distinctive because movement is already expressive before the next upgrade arrives. Different frames change the tools you bring to a mission rather than merely changing an outfit.

Collecting parts, crafting equipment and learning mod combinations can become a substantial long-term project. That breadth is rewarding when you enjoy discovering systems, but it also means the early hours do not explain everything at once. Choose it for an evolving free-to-play action game with a large customization horizon, rather than a brief campaign with a small, finished inventory.

1. Borderlands 4

Best for a full co-op looting campaign · PC · Solo; online co-op

Kairos is a planet kept under the Timekeeper’s control, and your Vault Hunter arrives in a society ready for that grip to be challenged. Searching for power and better equipment intersects with the people resisting his rule. That premise gives exploration a direction without revealing where the uprising ultimately goes.

A fresh weapon drops and the next fight becomes a practical question: does this thing suit the way your Vault Hunter is developing? Borderlands 4 makes that experimentation the thread connecting exploration, character skills and a campaign on Kairos, a planet under the Timekeeper’s control.

The appeal is having a directed adventure to carry the search for a better combination, with enough room to take a detour when equipment suggests a new approach. It takes the top spot for players seeking a large loot-centered shooter rather than a service-game routine. This entry discusses the PC release and its online cooperation, not console split-screen features.

Which should you play next?

Start with Borderlands 4 for a campaign built around loot, Remnant II for dangerous encounters and build decisions, or Roboquest for a run you can restart without committing to an ongoing world. If you prefer a directed fight without a constant equipment chase, our Best Action Games on PC guide explores other combat rhythms.