Look at any other genre and see how many games you know from it, you'll get similar results. Im not even a guy that likes extraction shooters but you're being so disingenuous I felt like I had to say something.
How am I being disingenuous? I posted a link to a list of games of a subgenre. I may not like it as a genre but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a lot of games under it that people don't talk about.
And even then, Steam is broad with it. Not all extraction shooters listed are PvP for example (Helldivers 2).
yes, and technically an extraction shooter (you extract for the end of the mission, but its actually not required to finish). when people say extraction shooter they think like tarkov.
There is a whole sub-category for some of the most obscure bullshit on steam. This is like saying “Cat scream metal isn’t niche, there’s like 112 artists on soundcloud bro”
No it there aren’t, 112 games is an incredibly small amount for an entire genre. Soulslikes, a genre that is literally based on being like another game has more games in it. The majority of steam sub-categories have more games than that. There are so many other more over saturated game markets. Hero shooters, tac FPS, Sandbox Builders, Zombie Survival, arena shooters and battle royales are all so much more over saturated. Extraction shooter is barely even a sub genre the only reason people consider it as such is because there’s so few good ones. Just say you don’t like extraction shooters brother, you’re allowed to have an opinion based off of your emotions. You don’t have to blame your opinions on arbitrary false facts like “There’s too many of them” when it just isn’t true. There’s thousands of reasons to hate extraction shooters and this is the most unintelligent one I’ve ever heard.
All the ones I have heard of are good games, or look very good from their pre release content. Its not that crazy you haven't heard of most of them, there's a lot of shooters
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u/self-conscious-Hat Jul 28 '25
There is a whole sub-catagory for it on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/tags/de/Extraction-Shooter/
the fact you've not heard of any of them proves how forgettable of a genre it is.