Warhammer: Vermintide 2
Strictly speaking, this one is not a loot shooter. But there is a lot of loot and you do occasionally shoot stuff. If “visceral” weren’t a meaningless made-up marketing buzzword to sell Call of Duty I would say that Vermintide 2 is one of the most visceral first-person action games I’ve ever played. Instead I’ll simply say that Fatshark made slaughtering human-sized rats, zombies, and other fiends feel exceptionally good. And one of the best things about Vermintide 2 is that you can get right in on the action without learning a bunch of arcane RPG systems. Just matchmake, get dropped into a dazzlingly grim Warhammer world, kill a bunch of stuff, and watch a treasure chest open with a satisfying thud at the end. If it’s not officially a loot shooter, it’s the next best thing.
Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC
