A rather cheeky First-Person Shooter has just landed on Steam, featuring a system where your FPS (Frames Per Second) effectively serves as your health bar.

Farlight Games Industry pulled the curtain back on 'FPS Quest' on the 5th. It is a roguelike dungeon-crawler boomer shooter that ties your survival directly to your frame rate.

To stay alive, you have to do the unthinkable: sabotage your own game. You will need to dial down graphics settings in real-time or intentionally trigger glitches—like slowing loading times to make walls, ceilings, or floors vanish—to clear your path through the levels.

You build your character through a classic roguelike system, picking various abilities along the way. Interestingly, you can scroll your mouse wheel to fluctuate your FPS, or even 'sacrifice' CPU temperature to accelerate or decelerate time for a faux bullet-time effect—don't worry, these are all simulated and won't actually cook your hardware.

The game throws a chaotic mix of factions at you, from developers obsessed with monetization to purists who despise glitches, not to mention broken AI hell-bent on stopping your progress. Your mission is to master these technical variables—optimisation, models, and graphics—to conquer the stages.

Farlight Games Industry claims, "This title simulates the world of FPS within a game and turns it into core mechanics. It is all about transforming the tedious reality of optimisation into a bit of light-hearted fun."