You should really try DMZ (shhhhh nobody tell them)

To my knowledge, only games with private rooms where you know who’s entering would be safe from cheaters.

TF2 at least of recent dates

I’d say any mainstream shooter is apt for cheaters these days. I’d recommend looking at older games or maybe niche projects like tribes fan projects.

Those only have really small groups of people but chances are they having fun with each other and not bothering with cheating

Games that do not have monetary incentives for winning/playing generally have significantly fewer cheaters (IE no drops or trading or anything like that, that could support a 3rd party black market). Also games with player-ran servers that have active moderation nearly 24/7.

Absolute best way to avoid cheaters is playing games with private servers and community moderators, infinitely better in every way except it’s not always as easy as “load game and click matchmake”. Arma is my favorite, it’s even become my go to game for playing weird stuff like Halo and Star Wars content.

Tons of older stuff being kept alive purely by dedicated communities, like Battlefield 2/Project Reality, BFBC2/Venice, Titanfall 1/R1, Titanfall 2/Northstar, Battlefront 2 og/legacy mod, Battlefront 2 EA via Kyber, several old CoD projects including combining games.

Also community and teamwork oriented games like Bellum, Squad, Glory to the Heroes, Gray Zone Warfare.

Virtual Reality is really fun for shooters tbh, extremely rare to see actual cheating there but it’s a lot to get into at first.

Otherwise I feel like I’ve rarely if ever seen cheaters on Holdfast, Overwatch, Bodycam, Straftat.

I would say The Finals. It doesn’t have a flood of cheaters due to the semi-low playercount (13k avg), but the skill ceiling is high as fuck. Which means you will probably lose a ton of rounds before getting a hang of the flow of the game.

It has amazing gunplay and movement.

If there is an online shooter that doesn’t have cheaters, I haven’t been able to find it. I’ve kinda given up on playing online games. I have found some single player fps games that you might want to check out. Trepang², VOID/BREAKER, and Echo Point Nova

Honestly… most online FPSs are fine if you aren’t good. I’m trash and I almost never see cheaters in R6 haha.

FPS is a genre usually designed around something that’s easy for a computer to do but difficult for a human to do (aiming). It’s kind of inevitable. I tend to like the ones with small player counts that I can play with a few friends and fill out the rest of the match with bots, and there aren’t many of those these days. By now, I’ve gravitated toward fighting games, where cheating is often difficult for a computer to do by comparison, because any attack a player makes tends to also leave them vulnerable. That’s not to say it doesn’t happen, but in order for someone to win by cheating in a fighting game, you’re hardly touching the controller anymore, because the computer has to do all of the playing for you.

In WW1 over the top, there’s probably cheaters. But the weapons are WWI inaccurate so not sure if a cheater would get much of an advantage. Plus 200 player chaos

Back when I used to play CSGO a lot, faceit had very few cheaters. Is it worse now or something? Or why not play that?

Overwatch would be the one I where I’ve encountered virtually no cheating, especially the last couple of years. I haven’t played The Finals in awhile, but I remember it being pretty clean of cheaters too.

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If I were set on that, I’d probably play on a console. I prefer keyboard+mouse for shooters, but…

The PC’s strength is that it’s open. You can do whatever you want. Want to mod a game to have more features or make it look prettier? Go for it. Tweak it? Sure. Get more-powerful or newer hardware to get a more-attractive appearance in a lot of games? Sure. Cheat to skip that annoying grindy bit in game X? Sure thing. Use whatever new and interesting input devices you want to add quality-of-life features with an extra button or macros? Sure.

Works beautifully for single-player games.

But by the same token, attempts to resist cheating in multiplayer competitive games are ill-suited to the platform and rely on developers trying to hack together attempts that tend to have performance and compatibility implications and work imperfectly. It’s hard to try to lock down an open platform.

Whereas the strength of the console is that it’s closed. You can’t do whatever you want. You don’t get to mod or tweak games much, which eliminates routes to get an edge via exploiting that. Everyone has (more-or-less) the same hardware, so nobody can “pay-to-win” in the sense of getting a performance edge in multiplayer competitive games — there’s a level playing field. A lot of PC gaming hardware is ultimately driven by trying to sell some way to basically let players pay-to-win, to get some edge in competitive multiplayer, which isn’t something that most players much like having around — and consoles don’t have that problem. Cheating is a pain. I understand that these days, console vendors blacklist and authenticate alternative input devices, so that players can’t use alternative controllers and the like, which prevents them from getting an edge.

Works beautifully for competitive multiplayer games.