Though I wouldn’t call most of today’s shooter games “realistic,” many have grown to become considerably more grounded and less fantastical than the FPS titles of yore. There’s absolutely still an audience for fast-paced, action-packed games like old-school DOOM, Quake, and Hexen, though, and there’s been a resurgence of “boomer shooters” in recent years to meet that demand.
The game that kicked off that renaissance is DUSK — the fan-favorite 2018 retro FPS from developer David Szymanski (Iron Lung,…