Brutal FPS game Hell Let Loose is more popular on Steam right now than ever

I go back to Counter-Strike, the early days of 1.6, and, for me personally, I think it set the ground rules for what a good online FPS ought to be. In Counter-Strike - and this is still true with CS2 - it’s all about risk and consequence. You get one life per round, and you’re incredibly vulnerable. It’s not like Call of Duty or even Battlefield, where the default game modes give you armor and perks. It’s raw. I’ve always preferred shooters in that tradition. So too, it would seem, have a lot of other PC players. One of the toughest, most brutal, and knife-edge FPS games available, after almost four years, the peerless Hell Let Loose just set a new Steam record.

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