Games like ‘Dusk’, ‘Amid Evil’, and ‘Into the Pit’ are shining examples of a new FPS subgenre: the “boomer shooter” inspired by games like ‘Doom’ and ‘Quake’.
Games like ‘Dusk’, ‘Amid Evil’, and ‘Into the Pit’ are shining examples of a new FPS subgenre: the “boomer shooter” inspired by games like ‘Doom’ and ‘Quake’.
Boomer shooter isn’t really about the generational boomers but that the games have a lot of “booms”. It says it right at the top of the article. Boomers never even played video games. That era was all Gen X and old Millennials so it wouldn’t even make sense that way.