Download the Game

🎮 Download Excel FPS Survival Game v1.0 Here:

Depending on your Excel security settings, you may need to enable macros and save a local copy before playing.

What Is Excel FPS Survival?

Excel FPS Survival is a wave-based first-person shooter built entirely using Microsoft Excel and VBA.

The objective is simple:

Survive for as long as possible.

As the game progresses, increasingly large waves of enemies spawn into the map and attempt to hunt you down. Use your weapon, movement and positioning to survive for as many waves as possible and set a new high score.

Unlike many of my previous Excel projects, this isn’t just a technical demonstration.

It’s a complete game with progression, enemies, audio, difficulty settings and persistent high scores.

Features

3D First Person Gameplay

The game uses a custom raycasting engine written entirely in VBA.

Walls, floors and ceilings are rendered in real time to create a fully navigable 3D environment inside Excel.

Wave-Based Enemy Survival

Each wave introduces more enemies than the last.

The longer you survive, the more difficult the game becomes.

Easy and Hard Mode

Choose your preferred difficulty before starting.

Easy Mode

Enemy positions visible on the minimap

Hard Mode

Enemy positions hidden from the minimap

Mouse Look Controls

The game supports proper FPS-style controls including:

WASD movement
Mouse-look aiming
Shooting
Collision detection

Sound Effects

The game includes embedded sound effects for:

Weapon firing
Taking damage

Fun fact: the sound effects were recorded by me and embedded directly into the workbook.

Persistent High Scores

The game tracks:

Highest Wave Reached
Most Enemies Killed

Can you beat my best run?

Everything Is Built Inside Excel

One of the goals of this project was to keep everything native to Microsoft Excel.

The Enemies are built from Excel controls.

The weapon sprite is built from Excel controls.

The muzzle flash is built from Excel controls.

The minimap is drawn using Excel controls.

Even the audio files are embedded into the workbook.

There are no external game engines involved.

Everything runs through Excel and VBA.

Development Journey

This project started with a simple experiment.

Could Excel render a first-person perspective?

The first versions consisted of little more than a moving square and a minimap.

From there I gradually built:

Player movement
Collision detection
Mouse-look controls
Raycasting
3D rendering
Enemy AI
Combat systems
Audio systems
Difficulty settings
High score tracking

What started as a technical challenge slowly evolved into a complete survival game.

Watch the Full Development Log

I have also created a full development log and gameplay showcase on my YouTube channel Dynamic Pear.

The video covers:

How the game was built
The underlying VBA systems
Development milestones
A complete gameplay session
Accessing the source code

📺 Watch Here:

Source Code Included

As with most projects on this blog, the workbook is intentionally left open for learning purposes.

You are free to:

Explore the VBA code
Modify the game
Learn from the systems
Build your own versions

My goal has always been to demonstrate what Excel is capable of when pushed beyond its traditional use cases.

What Comes Next?

With Excel FPS Version 1.0 now complete, it’s time for the next challenge.

I am going to attempt one of the most iconic milestones in gaming history:

Can Doom be recreated inside Microsoft Excel?

If you’ve followed my projects before, you already know that saying something is impossible only makes me want to try it.

Stay tuned.