List of third-person shooters

This is an index of notable commercial third-person shooter video games, sorted alphabetically by title. The developer, platform, and release date are provided where available. The table can be sorted by clicking on the small boxes next to the column headings.

Third-person shooter (TPS) is a subgenre of shooter video games in which the player character is visible on-screen, and the gameplay consists primarily of shooting.

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Video game platforms
3DSNintendo 3DS, 3DS Virtual Console, iQue 3DSAMIAmigaAPPIIApple II family
ARCAcorn ArchimedesArcadeArcade video gameC64Commodore 64
CPCAmstrad CPCDCDreamcastDOSDOS / MS-DOS, Windows 3.X
DROIDAndroidDSNintendo DS, DSiWare, iQue DSFDSFamicom Disk System
FMTFM TownsGBAGame Boy Advance, iQue GBAGCNGameCube
iOSiOS, iPhone, iPod, iPadOS, iPad,
visionOS, Apple Vision Pro
LINLinuxMACClassic Mac OS, 2001 and before
MOBIMobile phoneN64Nintendo 64, iQue PlayerNEONeo Geo AES
NEOCDNeo Geo CDNESNintendo Entertainment System / FamicomNGEN-Gage
NSNintendo SwitchOSXmacOSPDP1PDP-1
PS1PlayStation 1PS2PlayStation 2PS3PlayStation 3
PS4PlayStation 4PS5PlayStation 5PSNPlayStation Network
PSPPlayStation PortablePSVPlayStation VitaSATSega Saturn
SNESSuper Nintendo / Super
Famicom / Super Comboy
VBOYVirtual BoyWiiWii, WiiWare, Wii Virtual Console
WiiUWii U, WiiU Virtual ConsoleWINMicrosoft Windows, all
versions Windows 95 and up
XB360Xbox 360, Xbox 360 Live Arcade
XBXbox, Xbox Live ArcadeXBOXbox OneXBX/SXbox Series X/S
ZXZX Spectrum

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References

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  1. 1 2 Voorhees, Gerald A.; Call, Joshua; Whitlock, Katie (2015). Guns, Grenades, and Grunts: First-Person Shooter Games. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4411-9144-1. Some of the earliest video games, such as the mainframe game Spacewar! (1962) and commercial games based on it like Galaxy Game (1971) and Computer Space (1971) also involved shooting . . . [T]hese games featured shooting from a third-person perspective.
  2. Stanton, Rich (2015). A Brief History Of Video Games: From Atari to Xbox One. Little, Brown Book Group, Hachette Book Group. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-4721-1881-3. Radar Scope owed much to the popularity of Space Invaders and Galaxian, but nevertheless felt original thanks to its 3D third-person perspective.
  3. Jones, Steven E. (2008). The Meaning of Video Games: Gaming and Textual Strategies. Routledge. pp. 83–84. ISBN 978-1-135-90218-6. Clearly this early third-person shooter [Spacewar] paved the way for the FPS proper.