25-year-old FPS Delta Force is back with an extraction shooter revival that's already tearing up the Steam Next Fest charts
Oct. 15, 2024It’s spooky good
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Delta Force, the tactical first-person shooter from 1998, is back and more explosive than ever, and it’s one of the most popularSteam Next Festdemos.
At the moment, developer Team Jade’s Delta Force reboot is both the most-wishlisted Next Fest demo and the demo with the most active daily players. For FPS fans, it’s easy to see why. Team Jade, an offshoot of Call of Duty: Mobile developer TiMi, seems to have created a chillingly realistic free-to-play military shooter with a bevy of engaging game modes.
In Team Jade’s version, Black Hawk Down exists in Unreal Engine. It renders Somalia’s markets and rubble in steaming, excruciatingly vivid detail, and I imagine the pressure of this realistic environment is partly what keeps adrenaline-hunting players coming back to Delta Force during Next Fest.
Delta Force’s demo is currently available todownload on Steam.Just in time for Steam Next Fest, one of the storefront’s most wishlisted FPS games gets a new demo, and it’s already surpassed over 20,000 concurrent players.
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Ashley Bardhan is a critic from New York who covers gaming, culture, and other things people like. She previously wrote Inverse’s award-winning Inverse Daily newsletter. Then, as a Kotaku staff writer and Destructoid columnist, she covered horror and women in video games. Her arts writing has appeared in a myriad of other publications, including Pitchfork, Gawker, and Vulture.
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