Iron Curtain Call
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The funniest FPS games on Steam, and shooters like High on Life and Postal 2

By Whale Development Studios, the studio behind Iron Curtain Call. Published 5 November 2026. Every date, price, platform and demo below was checked on the US Steam store on 5 November 2026; the sources are listed at the end.

Iron Curtain Call gameplay on a carnival midway: the Party Line, a telephone that fires, blows up a crowd of tin robots under the comic words DISCONNECTED! and CONFERENCE CALL!, with the health, armor and weapon HUD
Iron Curtain Call, chapter 4, Landslide: the Party Line, a gun that is also a telephone. A real gameplay frame; the comic words are the game’s own.
The short answer

Funny is a taste, so pick your kind of funny.

No shooter is the funniest for everyone, because the jokes are very different. Satire is Iron Curtain Call. Absurd and crude is High on Life, where your guns talk, and Postal 2, which is black comedy. Action hero wisecracks are Duke Nukem 3D, Serious Sam 4 and Shadow Warrior. Sarcastic banter is Borderlands 2. Pure silliness is Fashion Police Squad. Bulletstorm is crude, over the top and built around creative kills.

Iron Curtain Call is our own game, so weigh that. Its jokes are a satire of war, red tape and customer service lines, not shock: a machine that runs a world war like a help desk, and a general with seventeen medals he gave himself. Its demo is free on Steam.

Humor is also a content question. Postal 2, Bulletstorm and Duke Nukem 3D are crude or risqué by design, and High on Life’s own store page says it does not recommend the game for children. Each entry below says what you are getting.

Of the nine, only Iron Curtain Call had a free demo on Steam on 5 November 2026.

At a glance

Nine shooters, side by side.

Checked on the US Steam store and the games’ Wikipedia articles on 5 November 2026. The humor labels are our reading of those pages, and funny is a matter of taste. Prices are list prices in US dollars before any sale; Steam sets its own prices in other countries.
GameKind of humorWhat the joke is aboutFree demo on SteamUS priceOut
Iron Curtain CallOur gameSatire: no shock, cartoon violence against tin robotsWar, red tape and customer service linesYes, free: Mission 1, about 15 to 20 minutesNot priced yet11 March 2027Free demo since 28 October 2026
High On LifeAbsurd and crude; the guns talkAn alien cartel, a jobless graduate and a team of talking weaponsNo$39.9913 December 2022
Bulletstorm: Full Clip EditionCrude and over the top, with sexual jokesCreative kills and the shooter’s own clichésNo$39.997 April 2017First released in 2011
POSTAL 2Black comedy, deliberately offensiveEveryday errands in a town of American caricaturesNo$9.992 November 2012
Serious Sam 4Self aware action hero one linersA one man army against alien hordesNo$39.9924 September 2020
Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World TourRisqué humor, pop culture satire and action hero parodyHollywood action heroes and 1990s pop cultureNo$19.9911 October 2016First released in 1996
Borderlands 2Sarcastic, joke dense dialogueA charismatic corporate villain and a lawless planetNo$19.9917 September 2012
Fashion Police SquadSilly, wordplay and a ridiculous premiseFashion crimes, such as socks with sandalsNo$19.9915 August 2022
Shadow WarriorWisecracks and over the top violenceA corporate shogun betrayed by his employerNo$29.9926 September 2013
The games

One by one, who each is for.

The facts under each entry come from its Steam page on 5 November 2026; the humor from its Steam page and its Wikipedia article (Fashion Police Squad has no Wikipedia article, so its Steam page is the only source).

Iron Curtain Call

Our game

Play it if you want your comedy to be satire rather than shock, and want to try it for free first.

The joke of Iron Curtain Call is that a world war is run like a help desk. It is 1965, year three of World War III, humanity ran out of soldiers and the enemy is an army of wind up tin robots run by the Supreme Chancellor, a customer service machine that was handed a country. Colonel Panic is on the radio: “I’d send backup, but you are the backup.” The first boss, Major Disaster, has seventeen medals, all self awarded.

The satire keeps going. In the chapter called Please Hold the hold music is the score and the phone menu is a mini boss; in Friendly Fire you are court martialled by a jury of robot kangaroos. Underneath it is a fast cartoon shooter where you punch robots for health, and they burst into bolts, springs and scrap. There is no blood and no gore.

Its jokes aim at war, red tape and customer service lines, not at shock. The free demo is Mission 1, Welcome to Rubbleton: about 15 to 20 minutes, ending with Major Disaster. It does not have the parry; that comes in the full game.

Developer and publisher
Whale Development Studios
Out
11 March 2027
Free demo out
28 October 2026
On Steam
Windows and macOS (demo on Windows, macOS and Linux)
US list price
Not priced yet
Demo
Yes, free

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Iron Curtain Call: Major Disaster, the first boss, a giant tin general, takes the finisher in a town square under bunting and comic sound effects
Chapter 1, Rubbleton: Major Disaster, the boss of the free demo, takes the finisher.

High On Life

Play it if you want an absurd, talkative comedy adventure and can take crude jokes.

Squanch Games’ High on Life is a comedy shooter with one joke engine: your weapons talk. You are a school graduate with no plans when an alien cartel that wants to get high off humanity invades Earth, and you team up with charismatic talking guns to take down the cartel and its boss, Garmantuous. Steam calls it a comedy adventure and says it is single player only.

The humor is crude and absurdist, and Wikipedia notes that it was polarizing and that critics were divided on it. The store page itself calls it a mature rated title and does not recommend it for children. A sequel, High On Life 2, has since come out, and Steam lists a free demo for it.

Its jokes live in the dialogue; Iron Curtain Call’s live in the setting and the cast.

Developer and publisher
Squanch Games, Inc.
Released
13 December 2022
On Steam
Windows
US list price
$39.99
Demo
None on Steam

Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition

Play it if you want crude, over the top humor around a shooter that rewards creative kills.

People Can Fly’s Bulletstorm follows Grayson Hunt, a former black ops soldier turned space pirate, on a resort planet gone wrong. Its Skillshot system rewards the most creative and deadly kills you can think of, so the comedy is partly the combat itself. It first came out in 2011; the Full Clip Edition is the one sold on Steam, for Windows.

The humor is crude. Wikipedia records the controversy over its sexual jokes, and that its marketing leaned hard on silliness, which two of its own creators later criticized. One critic liked how it parodied the genre’s usual writing.

Next to Iron Curtain Call it is crude where ours is satire, and it has competitive and cooperative modes besides the campaign.

Developer
People Can Fly
Publisher
Gearbox Publishing and 2K
Released
7 April 2017
On Steam
Windows
US list price
$39.99
Demo
None on Steam

POSTAL 2

Play it if you want black comedy that is meant to offend, and you like choosing how violent your day gets.

Running With Scissors’ POSTAL 2 asks you to live a week as the Postal Dude, a hapless everyman with chores: buy milk, return an overdue library book, get an autograph. Around the errands is a freak show of American caricatures, and Steam calls it a darkly humorous first person adventure. It is one open world, and the game is only as violent as you choose to be; you can even play as a pacifist.

Expect jokes that are offensive on purpose. Wikipedia says the series is notorious for violence, stereotyping and black comedy; critics gave the game mixed reviews when it came out, one IGN review disliked the crude and childish humor, and it has since gained a cult following. On Steam it is for Windows and Linux.

It is the cheapest priced game here at $9.99, and the most deliberately offensive.

Developer and publisher
Running With Scissors
Released
2 November 2012
On Steam
Windows and Linux
US list price
$9.99
Demo
None on Steam

Serious Sam 4

Play it if you want a wisecracking one man army and an absurd number of monsters.

Croteam’s Serious Sam 4 is a prequel in the series about Sam “Serious” Stone and his squad against the alien overlord Mental and his hordes. Steam’s own pitch lists perfectly timed one liners right next to the explosive arsenal and the huge crowds of enemies.

The humor is the self aware action hero kind. When the first game, Serious Sam: The First Encounter, came out, critics praised its humor, although one reviewer found its one liners less clever than Duke Nukem 3D’s. Serious Sam 4 can be played alone or in online cooperative mode for four players.

Developer
Croteam
Publisher
Devolver Digital
Released
24 September 2020
On Steam
Windows
US list price
$39.99
Demo
None on Steam

Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour

Play it if you want the original loudmouth action hero and can take 1990s risqué jokes.

Duke Nukem 3D first came out in 1996. The 20th Anniversary World Tour, by Gearbox Software and Nerve Software, is the version on Steam: the old game with a new fifth episode, new music and new Duke Talk from the original voice of Duke, Jon St. John.

Reviewers praised its unusual risqué humor, a mix of pop culture satire and lampooning of over the top Hollywood action heroes, and it was also criticized for how it portrays women. Some of the levels are the jokes: a fast food restaurant called Duke Burger, a Disneyland parody called Babe Land, Area 51.

Developers
Nerve Software and Gearbox Software
Publisher
Gearbox Publishing and 2K
Released
11 October 2016
On Steam
Windows
US list price
$19.99
Demo
None on Steam

Borderlands 2

Play it if you want a joke every few seconds, a charming villain and loot on top.

Gearbox’s Borderlands 2 is a loot shooter with a comic book look on the planet Pandora, where a new group of Vault Hunters faces Handsome Jack, the CEO of the Hyperion corporation. Wikipedia says the game keeps a humorous tone while the story has dark moments; Anthony Burch wrote the script and made Jack a charismatic villain.

Reviewers singled out its humor, from the side missions to a comic line for every character. You can play alone, in split screen or in online cooperative mode, and Steam lists Windows, macOS and Linux.

Developer
Gearbox Software
Publisher
2K
Released
17 September 2012
On Steam
Windows, macOS and Linux
US list price
$19.99
Demo
None on Steam

Fashion Police Squad

Play it if you want pure silliness, with a retro shooter underneath.

Mopeful Games’ Fashion Police Squad is a humorous retro shooter in which you are Sergeant Des, cleaning the streets of Trendopolis of fashion crimes, from saggy pants to socks in sandals. Your arsenal is attire enhancing weapons, Sock Gnomes among them.

Each fashion crime needs the right fix, and the wrong weapon does nothing to the enemy, so the premise is also the puzzle. It is published by No More Robots and is for Windows on Steam. It has no Wikipedia article, so what is written here comes from its store page.

Developer
Mopeful Games
Publisher
No More Robots
Released
15 August 2022
On Steam
Windows
US list price
$19.99
Demo
None on Steam

Shadow Warrior

Play it if you want wisecracks, a katana and over the top violence.

Flying Wild Hog’s Shadow Warrior reboots the 3D Realms classic with Lo Wang, a corporate shogun ordered to acquire a legendary blade, then betrayed by his employer and left to fight a demon invasion with guns, a katana and magic.

Steam sells it as the hilarious legend of Lo Wang. Wikipedia records that the new writing aimed for cleverer wit than the old Duke Nukem and Shadow Warrior jokes, that its designer called it so violent it is funny, and that critics gave it mixed reviews. Steam lists Windows, macOS and Linux.

Developer
Flying Wild Hog
Publisher
Devolver Digital
Released
26 September 2013
On Steam
Windows, macOS and Linux
US list price
$29.99
Demo
None on Steam
The look and the speed

If it is the cartoon or the pace you came for

Our other guides cover the two things Iron Curtain Call is built on: rubber hose and 1930s cartoon FPS games, and fast FPS games like ULTRAKILL and MULLET MADJACK, with the same facts checked on Steam.

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Questions

Questions players ask

What is the funniest FPS game?

It depends on the kind of funny. Borderlands 2 has sarcastic, joke dense dialogue, and High on Life has talking guns and absurd comedy. Duke Nukem 3D, Serious Sam 4 and Shadow Warrior are action hero wisecracks, Postal 2 is black comedy and Fashion Police Squad is pure silliness. For satire there is Iron Curtain Call, which has a free demo on Steam.

What games are like High on Life?

For talkative, absurd comedy, Borderlands 2 for its joke dense script and Fashion Police Squad for its ridiculous arsenal. Bulletstorm is the crude, fast option. High on Life’s own sequel, High On Life 2, has a free demo on Steam. If you would rather have satire than crude jokes, try Iron Curtain Call.

Is Postal 2 a comedy game?

Yes, a black comedy: Steam calls it darkly humorous, and Wikipedia says the series is known for violence, stereotyping and black comedy. The jokes are meant to offend, reviews were mixed, and you can play as a pacifist.

Which funny shooters have a free demo?

On 5 November 2026, of the nine games here, only Iron Curtain Call had a demo on Steam. Steam also lists a free demo for High On Life 2, the sequel to High on Life.

Which funny FPS games run on Mac?

On 5 November 2026 Steam listed macOS for Iron Curtain Call, Borderlands 2 and Shadow Warrior. Postal 2 is for Windows and Linux; the other five here are Windows only.

Is Iron Curtain Call gory or crude?

No. Its humor is satire of war, bureaucracy and customer service, and the violence is cartoon violence against tin robots that burst into bolts, springs and scrap. There is no blood and no gore.

When does Iron Curtain Call come out, and what is in the demo?

It comes out on 11 March 2027, on Steam; the price is not announced yet. The free demo has been out since 28 October 2026: Mission 1, about 15 to 20 minutes, ending with the boss Major Disaster. The parry is not in the demo; it comes in the full game.

Sources

Every fact on this page comes from these pages, read on 5 November 2026. Prices and dates change; the store page always has the final word.

  1. Iron Curtain Call, Steam store page
  2. High On Life, Steam store page
  3. Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, Steam store page
  4. POSTAL 2, Steam store page
  5. Serious Sam 4, Steam store page
  6. Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour, Steam store page
  7. Borderlands 2, Steam store page
  8. Fashion Police Squad, Steam store page
  9. Shadow Warrior, Steam store page
  10. Humour, Wikipedia
  11. High on Life (video game), Wikipedia
  12. Bulletstorm, Wikipedia
  13. Postal 2, Wikipedia
  14. Serious Sam: The First Encounter, Wikipedia
  15. Serious Sam 4, Wikipedia
  16. Duke Nukem 3D, Wikipedia
  17. Borderlands 2, Wikipedia
  18. Shadow Warrior (2013 video game), Wikipedia

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Mission 1 of Iron Curtain Call is free on Steam. Play it, and if the war wins you over, wishlist the full war: it arrives on 11 March 2027.

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