A new boomer shooter called FPS Quest has been announced, featuring an unusual mechanic where frame rate literally replaces the health bar. To survive, players will have to actively manage performance—sometimes by lowering graphical settings mid-fight.
The more damage your character takes, the lower the FPS drops. As performance falls, the world slows down and the game begins to visually “break.” During gameplay, you can reduce texture quality, remove environment objects, and even delete columns, doors, or entire ceilings. This restores FPS and lets you keep fighting, but it also makes levels far more dangerous. Without walls, gaps appear; without doors, it’s easy to get lost; and excessive “simplification” turns arenas into pure chaos.
As you progress, special “scripts” unlock that let you treat FPS as a controllable resource. You can not only reshape the environment, but also adjust mouse wheel speed through overheating mechanics or convert frame rate into a form of controllable slow motion. Each level ends with a choice between settings tweaks, global upgrades, or new weapons—and your decisions primarily affect the stability of the world itself.
The game’s Steam description also mentions several factions trying to influence your journey:
- developers of the patch mechanism who want to monetize mods;
- OutofBounds scammers searching for easy shortcuts;
- strict guardians who oppose exploits;
- the “Zero Process,” an exhausted AI that would rather see you give up entirely.
Your behavior determines where you end up before the appearance of the Dungeon Master, who “helps” in the most unpredictable ways possible. More details about this character are expected after release.
FPS Quest is coming to PC via Steam. The minimum requirements include 64-bit Windows and a GPU on the level of a GTX 1050 Ti. The developers emphasize that the game intentionally simulates low FPS as a creative effect—your actual hardware isn’t being pushed to its limits, and the system won’t truly freeze.
The game is being developed by Farlight Games Industry. Its Steam page is already live, though no official release date has been announced yet.
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