Quality is not a guarantee of success or failure; occasionally, a team can create a near-flawless first-person shooter and still struggle to break even or convince anybody to give them a go. Be it due to stiff competition, poor marketing, or simply terrible luck, plenty of fantastic FPS games that are nowadays hailed as all-time greatest were mostly ignored during their launch windows, despite generally receiving incredible reviews.

"Nobody bought" is, naturally, an exaggeration, but that might as well be the case when a game fails to meet its projected sales by millions. You and I have probably played all of these awesome shooters at one point or another, but I personally played most of them well after they had already garnered the "flop" label.

I'm leaving out Titanfall 2, just because it's the default answer to "Perfect FPS games nobody played/bought/etc." Obviously, its single-player campaign is a 10/10.

For this article, I'm talking solely about when each FPS game launched.

Bulletstorm might be my favorite single-player FPS game of all time; at the very least, it's the one I replay the most, and I will continue to do so forever or until the Full Clip Edition refuses to run anymore. Although not held to as high a status as Wolfenstein: The New Order or Doom 2016, People Can Fly and Epic Games' 2011 shooter sits comfortably among the upper echelon of "B-grade FPS games with absurdly fun gameplay."

While a new IP is always a risk, Bulletstorm was backed by EA's marketing machine, along with Epic Games' pedigree and People Can Fly's Painkiller cred.

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