ROGUE POINT

A stripped-back co-op FPS from the team behind Black Mesa

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You spawn. You get a kill. You die. You spawn again. At its core, there is something uniquely bleak about the competitive multiplayer shooter. It might look like you're playing as part of a team, but XP and progression systems mean that everybody, ultimately, is in it for themselves at some level, it's all just a grind. Crowbar Collective, once a loose team of volunteers, now a studio with 16 fulltime staff, has a vision of a different kind of online FPS. This might seem like a strange second project for the maker of Black Mesa, but spiritually Rogue Point feels true to Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament and the other quickfire shooters of the Half-Life era; if Crowbar Collective forged its reputation remaking a Valve classic, Rogue Point also feels partly inspired by Left 4 Dead.