I played EVERY first-person shooter ever made in Japan. From obscure PC-88 experiments to modern PlayStation 5 titles. There’s always been a myth that Japan doesn’t make FPS games and this video is here to disprove that, so get read for some strange, creative, and downright bizarre games that most players have never even heard of.
From Jumping Flash and Ghost In The Shell to Resident Evil and Metal Gear Solid, here’s every Japanese FPS ever made.
🧠 What’s in this video:
– A full look at every Japanese-developed FPS ever made
– Hidden gems from the PC-98, Sega Saturn, and PS1 to the PS5 and Steam
– Wild experiments that barely qualify as shooters
– FPS evolution in Japan from 8-bit to PS5
0:00:00 – Every FPS Ever Made in Japan
0:00:34 – The Alien Island 3D Version (PC88)
0:01:40 – Star Cruiser (Sharp X6800)
0:04:54 – Star Cruiser (Mega Drive)
0:08:45 – Ray Thunder (Game Boy)
0:09:54 – Silent Debuggers (PC Engine)
0:11:59 – Armored Trooper Votoms Dead Ash (Sharp X68000)
0:13:41 – Gun Buster (Arcade)
0:16:11 – Elm Knight (PC98)
0:18:13 – X (Game Boy)
0:20:11 – Star Cruiser 2 (PC-98)
0:22:54 – Iron Angel of The Apocalypse (3DO)
0:26:31 – Star Fire (PC98)
0:29:03 – Crime Crackers (Playstation)
0:33:00 – Geograph Seal (Sharp X68000)
0:34:29 – Metal Head (Sega 32X)
0:36:14 – Iron Angel of The Apocalypse: The Return
0:40:21 – Kileak (PS1)
0:42:52 – Robotica (Sega Saturn)
0:45:21 – Innsmouth No Yakata (Virtual Boy)
0:47:43 – Jumping Flash (Playstation)
0:49:48 – Kileak 2: The Blood (PS1)
0:51:20 – Expert (PS1)
0:52:55 – Tokusou Kidoutai J SWAT (Sega Saturn)
0:55:51 – Jumping Flash 2 (Playstation)
0:57:20 – Maze 999 (PC-98)
0:58:01 – Enemy Zero (Sega Saturn)
1:01:01 – Brahma Force (PS1)
1:02:27 – Mobile Suit Gundam (Sega Saturn)
1:05:28 – Target Gear (PC)
1:07:00 – Crime Crackers 2 (PS1)
1:09:04 – The Note (PS1)
1:11:53 – Gunmen Wars (Arcade)
1:12:29 – Outrigger (Arcade / Sega Dreamcast)
1:14:33 – Germs (PS1)
1:19:40 – Robbit Mon Dieu (PS1)
1:21:38 – Resident Evil Survivor (PS1)
1:24:45 – Resident Evil Survivor 2 (PS2)
1:27:20 – Dino Stalker (PS2)
1:28:42 – Counter Strike Neo (Arcade)
1:29:51 – X Operations (PC)
1:32:13 – Shadow Tower Abyss (PS2)
1:34:25 – Simple 2000 Series Vol. 56: The Survival Game (PS2)
1:36:35 – Breakdown (Xbox)
1:39:36 – Coded Arms (PSP)
1:41:56 – Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex (PSP)
1:44:36 – Elevator Action Real 1 & 2 (Mobile)
1:45:13 – Half-Life 2: Survivor (Arcade)
1:46:43 – Mobile Suit Gundam Bonds Of The Battlefield (Arcade)
1:47:11 – Silent Hill: The Escape (iPhone)
1:49:08 – Simple 2000 Series Vol. 119: The Survival Game 2 (PS2)
1:49:46 – Gun-Katana – Non-Human-Killer (PC)
1:50:26 – Time Crisis 4 (PS3)
1:51:59 – Mobile Suit Gundam: Senjou no Kizuna Portable (PSP)
1:53:43 – Water Warfare (Nintendo Wii)
1:56:03 – Onslaught (Nintendo Wii)
1:58:55 – Cyber Diver (Arcade)
1:59:24 – Metal Gear Arcade
2:01:08 – Oretachi no Sabage Versus (PSP)
2:03:04 – The Legend of Alfur (PC)
2:05:44 – Left 4 Dead Survivors (Arcade)
2:06:39 – Resident Evil 7 (PS4 PS5 & Steam)
2:07:37 – Yodoyabashi Oyasama Club (PC)
2:08:59 – Seed Of The Dead (Steam)
2:11:15 – Harem Trigger (PC)
2:12:28 – The Citadel (Steam)
2:14:54 – Fantastic Rain (PC)
2:17:11 – Resident Evil 8 (PS5 & Steam)
2:17:53 – Seed Of The Dead Sweet Home (Steam)
2:21:21 – Ghostwire Tokyo (PS5 & Steam)
2:22:16 – Oedo Trigger!!! (Steam)
2:23:00 – Hazama_Queen (Steam)
2:24:52 – Cult vs. Gal (Steam)
2:27:15 – Beyond Citadel (Steam)
2:30:40 – Shooters, Ready (Steam)
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𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲, 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 "𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲" 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼. 𝗜𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁!
𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝗗𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗲'𝘀 𝗚𝘂𝗻-𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oougvv7AQk
𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲:
Alien Island 3D Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKOXtdylPuA
Cyber Diver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAlCUuzOolM
Counter Strike Neo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s11Goui2pNw
Elevator Action Real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqJHiSYku9E
Gunmen Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjUfpDo-pEc
Half-Life 2 Survivor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyIZUTr874Q
Left 4 Dead: Survivors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAs9xLNRN5k
Maze 999: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKexRQOsfT0
Mobile Suit Gundam (Arcade): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8H6NEQP7dE
Time Crisis 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFq43eKO-g8
You know, we live in the far 2025 future, you can just point your phone at stuff and ask google translator to translate stuff for you by camera. To be fair, it's not aways perfect, but, if you wanting to review stuff from japan while not speaking japanese, prob would help you XD
The best Portuguese channel on youtube along with afodercomtudo 😎
Once we got to The Citadel, I was like, if this doesn't get S tier, I'm out. However, you did not disappoint! Amazing work on this video dude!
2:22:40 "as the girls 'come' they drop money"
Wait did I hear you say that right?
1:26:00 GlaDOS, is that you?
1:37:45 trying to think of how to depict healing for Americans “imagine a burger..”
this is a long video and alot of games, im gonna watch this chunk by chunk, but im curious if someone can tell me what game is the very first one that appears at the 0:00 beginning ?
2:16:51
"I love everything about this game except the actual gameplay."
My thoughts on Dark Souls II and Rain World.
2:09:32
"The most annoying vocie I've ever heard"
The girl's voice: Generic anime girl
I 100% agree, most anime girls have awful, annoying VA.
the 90s Japanese mind cannot comprehend a non-mech FPS
1:55:38 SENRAN KAGURA MENTIONED
Going from Left 4 Dead 2 to Resident Evil 7 to a freeware horde shooter to Seed of the Dead in less than 5 minutes gave me such incredible whiplash, holy cow
I am a little disappointed that X's sequel, X-scape, didn't get mentioned. Granted, it was a DSi e-shop title, and pretty much all of those got overlooked because… well, because DSi. Sure, you could buy DSi games on the 3DS e-shop, but no one DID.
Excellent roundup, though.
XOps was a weirdly fun one back in the day. It even had a decent multiplayer scene for what it was—mostly Japanese, but there was a handful of us English speakers too.
You talk funny. subscribed.
Wow, Japanese first person games are kinda poor.
They never got the hang of making them.
31:33 Cracker points, lmao
me: i'm going to own st1ka whe he misses Hazama Queen surely he'll miss it. Oh 🙁 2:23:00 Seriously amazing video! Fantastic Rain looks so cool shame its not for sale and v hard to find elsewhere.
CS Neo?
I can't help but notice toward the end we started getting a LOT of waifu games in the JFPS realm. But I have to contest your Seed of the Dead rating. You said F tier but I'm seeing more DDs.
But seriously, dude, amazing work on this video. I can tell how much work you put into it and it turned out great!
Looks like you're missing X-Scape, the DSi sequel to Gameboy's X.
Interesting to see Enemy Zero get represented but not its follow-up D2 on the Dreamcast. Is it because exploration is third-person?
Resident Evil (Dead Aim) Gun Survivor 4
Never have seen so many bad games in a single coherent list.
Loving this video! It had me wondering if you've ever tried Baroque on Saturn?
Was Space Griffon VF-9 too much of a mech game to make the cut? If not, guess what's it's another horror themed mech FPS set in a grey maze. It's neat to know that I'm not the only one who noticed how many of these came out around this time. In the process of writing this comment I discovered that Space Griffon is a remake of a previous game of theirs, "Hamlet" for the PC-98.
Before I clicked this, I was wondering if you would mention Silent Debuggers. I was obsessed with that game as a teen. Beat it once. Was SOOOOO underrated. A true hidden gem.
no "Gundam: Rise from the ashes" on Dreamcast? it was a much improved "sister game" to "Side Story: The Blue Destiny" on Saturn. It even got a localized english port.
Awesome video. Beyond Citadel made me want to fucking puke.
Now play every JRPG made in japan🙏
Hey, beena long time subscriber but recently unsubscribed. And I gotta say go fak yourself, you thin skinned little piece of shite. You should have stuck to video game content instead of trying to cancel people. People like you is what's wrong with the world.
Sincerely, I hope you get 10x what you did to the author.
I really like Cult vs Gal, started messing with unity since I played that game.
Yes!!!
This is exactly the kind of niche video game stuff that I love.
I always thought that the history of first person shooters was particularly interesting. Because it is one of few genres that not only demand some kind of 3D perspective by its very definition, but one that game developers wanted to try pretty much from the start.
So the early history is full of people struggling to get a convincing 3D image before our machines could even do proper 3D. You can really see and feel the struggle, compromising in a lot of ways, even just having recognizable characters, and them inching closer and closer. In a way you just don't see with 2D platformers or shmups. Playing the history.
I mean even the mechanics of how they are even supposed to work (on consoles) weren't really solidify into the modern era until halo ce came out.
Play super mario world and super mario wonder and the difference between them is almost comically small compared to wolfenstein 3D and the new Colossus or whatever.
Great video man, I will definitely try Star Cruiser one of these days. I wasn't aware of it ar all and I thought I knew my old fps games.
I followed citadev before he got the first game relaesed, expecting its to be just a cool doom clone. And then he hit me with the second game
Gundam Operation Troy is sadly missing, it’s actually good
Thank you for the fantastic video st1ka!
Just a heads up, if you need to capture PS3 footage through an el gato, you need to get an HDMI splitter. Surprisingly it confuses the signal that prevents capture and works like a charm!
This video is great and I'm glad I had time to just sit and watch it. Well I had to make it background with glances because FPS makes me horribly motion sick. I was actually surprised how many FPS games there were made in Japan. Great work!
alright lets go
I like how you kept asking if the Beyond Citadel dev was okay.
I have a friend who spends her time making vent art almost exactly like what you'd find in Beyond Citadel and it is to cope from the PTSD of being a combat veteran.
This is a pretty cool vid, if I may provide my constructive criticism, you need to shut up a bit, sometimes and let the games speak for themselves for say, ten or twenty seconds of gameplay. The format would benefit from more silence from you, to allow the viewers to absorb critical aspects such as Ambience, Tone, Sound effects and clarity, as well as other immersive aspects, which require a look at the game
just for a momentwithout commentary. Not trying to jab you or say you talk too much, you are providing insights and you decided to make this a "Short Review" of each game, so I can only respect that decision. Cool vid anyway, cheers. My favourite was when you showed Iron Angel of the Apocalypse and allowed that strange cutscene to roll, without talking over it, FMV cutscenes are highly indicative of the era and it's excellent to be able to see examples of that in Japanese games that are more sovereign to Japan.You forgot RE Village.
Man, Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash was such a better game than it had any right being.
Jumping Jack! That’s a blast from the past.
Watch it get remade in Unreal and lose all its character
Don't worry, as soon as another Japanese guy even thinks about making an fps, I'll point him to this video. The truth must be maintained.
St1ka, estou curtindo muito seus vídeos! Keep up the great work
I'm going to start calling my bank account "cracker points" now. Guys, I'm running out of cracker points