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What’s in your FPS rotation?
Morgan Park
19 September 2025
The shooters you’re always playing, but never at the same time.
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Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every week, I’ll be covering a topic relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new.
I can’t think of a time when I was solely obsessed with a singular FPS. Even at the height of a 2,000+ hour, multi-year relationship with Rainbow Six Siege, I still regularly played some Call of Duty and Overwatch with friends. That lack of focus probably explains why I was good but never great at Siege, but it’s all part of a healthy FPS rotation.
That’s a thing we all have, right? A handful of shooters we bounce between throughout the year? Maybe you do it for your favorite singleplayer campaigns, or perhaps it’s not even a conscious exercise, but it’s natural to ebb and flow between familiar shooters that scratch different itches.
Earlier this year, I started keeping track of my FPS rotation. I used Backloggd—a journaling site that’s basically Letterboxd for games—to make a living list of the shooters I’m always playing, but never at the same time.
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Right now, my FPS rotation is at 10. Here’s what I got:
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Team Fortress 2
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Quake Champions
Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Rainbow Six Siege X
Left 4 Dead 2
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A nice mix of FPS flavors: Extraction, co-op, class-based, arena, tactical, and whatever you call the madness that is Straftat. Some I play a lot more than others (Left 4 Dead 2 is definitely a once or twice a year deal). I stuck to PvP and co-op shooters that I’ve picked back up in 2025, but if I were to include solo stuff, I’d throw the excellent Echo Point Nova in there, which I’ve played off and on for a year now because there’s just so much in it.
For me, it’s almost always an update that triggers a reinstall: new events, modes, or the rare good battle pass can end a months-long drought. Once I’m back in, I’m good for at least a week of heated passion as I remind myself why it rules so hard. It’s all vibes—I never plan to stop playing one FPS and start up again on another, but once I do, it goes back to the bottom of the mental rotation.
Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 2, and Quake Champions are outliers that don’t get huge updates anymore. They make the rotation because I’ve been on a classic kick: Arena shooters, server browser culture, co-op campaigns, and really anything that resembles FPS gaming before live-service has been making me happiest. They’re also just really good, even by 2025 standards.
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The FPS rotation is a fun exercise because it’s also an accurate snapshot of my FPS tastes at the moment. When I was playing games with friends more often in my early 20s, my rotation was a lot smaller. As everyone got busier, shooters that I only enjoyed with friends cycled out. Now, over half of my rotation is games I play primarily alone. The best solo shooters? Halo and Battlefield by a mile.
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What didn’t make the list is also telling. Looks like I’m fully out on battle royale, huh? I consider myself a Call of Duty fan, but I haven’t picked up Warzone in years and haven’t returned to Black Ops 6 since late 2024. Maybe I’ve outgrown the create-a-class grind: CoD has more guns and attachments than ever, but customizing them is a dull exercise in moving sliders up and down. These days, I’m automatically more interested in smaller weapon pools that all serve a role, like Halo 3’s finely-tuned weapon sandbox.
What’s in your FPS rotation? I’d love to hear what’s keeping your attention in 2025, because I bet I’m missing something that I should be playing more. Comments are open below.
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Morgan has been writing for PC Gamer since 2018, first as a freelancer and currently as a staff writer. He has also appeared on Polygon, Kotaku, Fanbyte, and PCGamesN. Before freelancing, he spent most of high school and all of college writing at small gaming sites that didn’t pay him. He’s very happy to have a real job now. Morgan is a beat writer following the latest and greatest shooters and the communities that play them. He also writes general news, reviews, features, the occasional guide, and bad jokes in Slack. Twist his arm, and he’ll even write about a boring strategy game. Please don’t, though.
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