The best FPS of 2024 so far is Echo Point Nova, a $25 hyper mobile co-op shooter I can't put down

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What’s that? Sorry, I can’t hear you: I’m having the time of my freakin' life soaring through the air at 120mph on a hoverboard, popping a clean kickflip as my sniper crosshair intersects with the goon’s noggin—boom, headshot—and sticking the landing. The pitch forEcho Point Novasounds like my middle school-aged idea of the perfect videogame: a fast-paced, hyper mobile shooter where you can double jump, wallrun, and skate down slopes while racking up killstreaks with an MP5 in co-op.

🔫Great guns🏃‍♀️ Wildly cool movement🌎Open world👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 Full 4-player co-op🍖 A lot of meat on the bones

This game somehow exists on our plane when it clearly belongs in a better reality where Tribes and Counter-Strike surf servers became the dominant FPS template of the 2000s.

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Man, it feels so good to just cruise in Echo Point Nova. It’s expertly tuned in small ways that make cool stuff happen as a matter of course, like landing perfectly into a slope to gain speed or grinding around the walls of a bowl-shaped arena mid-combat. But it’s deceptively accessible. Mastering Echo Point’s movement is tricky, but unlike Tribes, it’s not all that difficult. The game is remarkably forgiving with jump and grapple cooldowns so you rarely fall off the map without some way to recover. If you do fall, you can just respawn at the last piece of solid ground you touched with no penalty other than some lost distance. And maybe biggest of all, momentum isn’t a precious resource. Even if you smack face first into a wall at 60mph, you can get back up to speed in seconds.

It is genuinely unlike any other game I’ve played, partly because of that max speed, but also due to how everything’s stitched together. A lot of other FPSes with ambitious movement and platforming are level-based or entirely linear campaigns with arenas that force players to mentally “toggle” between shooter mode and movement mode. Echo Point is one continuous flow state. You’re encouraged to shoot stuff on your way to places or avoid enemies entirely if you want. The way this map is set up reminds me more of a Tony Hawk game than anything else.

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I haven’t even mentioned co-op. Echo Point supports up to four players, and it’s just a perfect example of how co-op should be done. You can join friends from the first minute of the game, no hang-ups with tutorials, and drop-in/drop-out any time. All progress is shared, so you can jump into friends' games with your singleplayer save with no weirdness, and even difficulty is set per player.

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God bless the talented teams making throwback FPSes orambitious episodic immersive sims, but one of my favorite things about Echo Point Nova is I don’t have to wait years for it to be done—it’s a complete, surprisingly large $25 game that isn’t even close to over after the credits roll. Without spoiling, just know that there’s a very fun reason to go back and retry combat challenges once you’ve beaten the story.

I’m thoroughly pleased with what Echo Point Nova already is, and Greylock isn’t even done adding on: the dev’s roadmap says Steam Workshop support is coming this year, and 2025 and “beyond” will bring time trials, “tactical” mode, challenge islands, new game plus, a “rogue” mode, and more weapons, enemies and perks. Dynamite stuff.

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