

Call in arty, helicopter evacs, relay information to other squads and that's just if you are an infantry soldier.

Set up bases, control key areas, engage enemy forces, fight, retreat. To save too much of a preamble squad is the spiritual sequel to Project Reality, a combined-arms tactical shooter, players are split into one of two teams, and then squads of eight, with a player-controlled Commander dictating the action on both sides. SquadĮntering early access all the way back in 2015, every year Squad gets better and better. From those already released and being continually updated to those that are just starting their journeys - here they are. So having said all that if you are in the market for one, or want to whet your appetite for what is coming up we thought we would break down the best tactical shooters in 2021. In short - it's a great time to be a fan of tactical shooters. And importantly with player bases that can sustain the development of these projects that, as anyone who has followed the genre knows, takes years (decades?) to fully-realise.

Now with those studios all-grown-up and the democratization of game development through free-to-use engines such as Epic Game's Unreal Engine we now have multiple studios developing competing and complementary tactical shooters.
