Stealth games pc list

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Styx: Shards of Darkness Stealth-action game series featuring RPG elements and unique story about the adventures of a goblin thief. Styx: Master of Shadows Stealth action game with roleplaying elements set in a dark fantasy universe. Rather than treating war as a shooting gallery, Hidden and Dangerous uses a combination of first- and third-person direct squad control to simulate the tactics of SAS operations behind enemy lines.

The sequel improves the stealth mechanics, allowing the player to take prisoners and steal uniforms, as well as incorporating a greater variety of appropriate objectives in its missions.

Notes: The Deluxe edition of the first game in the series is available free of charge , having been released as freeware to promote the sequel. Where can I buy it: The second-hand market. SWAT 4 is a policing equivalent. Combining elements of snuff films with the horrors of reality TV, Manhunt is an oppressively unpleasant game. It delves into aspects of horror that have been excavated so thoroughly by modern film-makers that the barrel has been scraped dry, buried, exhumed, reincarnated and then thoroughly dismantled from top-to-bottom.

Rockstar recognise that the violence must be a requirement of survival rather than an indulgence, and by mixing their snuff with stealth, they make horrible deeds feel necessary, cathartic and then horrible again.

The executions are dirty and desperate. There's no glamour in the game and even in the most excessive moments, the camera is a grotesque voyeur rather than a fetishising framing device. The gunplay is rubbish, and the environments are ugly and repetitive by design, but still Read more: Kieron's thoughtful retrospective. What else should I be playing if I like this: The Thief games' interludes into stealth-horror are the best example of that particular genre crossover.

There are several common approaches to stealth gaming but every design must make one important decision: is a failure to stay in the shadows punished by failure, or will the player have opportunities to correct their mistakes. If a game takes the latter approach, it can swiftly slide out of the stealth bracket altogether, as being spotted becomes an excuse to run and gun all the way to the end of a level.

Styx: Master of Shadows plants its fantasy flag in the former category, demanding that every level is executed using stealth and stealth alone. Titular character Styx does have some goblin-y gadgets to divert the attention of guards but on the whole, he relies on the shadows, and the nooks and crannies of each level to conceal him. Read more: Our Review. This is a game with a patch that unlocks extra brothels and removes the clothing from the women in those brothels.

If you can look past some of the tackiness, The Saboteur is a fine example of stealth mechanics finding expression in an open world.

Where can I buy it: Origin. What else should I be playing if I like this: Velvet Assassin, which came out around the same time, is almost as tonally confused and also suffers from inferior stealth mechanics. During its prolonged development cycle, Monaco appeared to be many different things.

A top-down stealth puzzler, perhaps? An elaborate multiplayer tactical heist planner? The reality is a combination of all three possibilities. Monaco is certainly stylized — and stylish — framing its heists in the language of a chic New Wave crime film but with visuals that are Neon Vague. Information flies out of the screen thick and fast as the various characters you and your friends can control demolish walls, hack computers and flee from attack dogs.

The joy is as much in the farce that ensues when everything goes to hell as in the perfectly executed plan. Read more: Our Review and an interview with developer Andy Schatz. Where can I buy it: Steam or direct from the developer. What else should I be playing if I like this: Payday 2 is a completely different take on multiplayer heists, and both The Escapists and Prison Architect feel like alternate reality versions of Monaco, viewed from different perspectives.

Arkham Asylum is still the greatest Batman game and its unusual approach to sneaking and clobbering makes it stand out in the field of stealth games. The majority of games in this list are what we might refer to as pure stealth games, in which the player character has few tools other than those that keep him or her concealed, and Arkham Asylum is far from pure. In between exploration of the titular institution, the game divides into two types of encounter: straight-up combat and stealth-based Predator sections.

While most stealth games concentrate on the vulnerability of the protagonist, who uses the shadows as a sort of flimsy armour, Arkham Asylum makes Batman into a thing of fear. Enemies panic as he picks them off one by one and while a burst of automatic fire can bring his crimefighting career to an end, the darkness empowers him and the temptation to toy with the final thug in an area as he jumps at every sound is almost impossible to ignore.

Notes: The storyline for Asylum and follow-up City was penned by Paul Dini, perhaps best known for his work on the much-loved Batman: The Animated series, which also shares several voice actors with the Arkham games. What else should I be playing if I like this: The sequels are worth playing, although the lack of gadgets in the opening predator stages of the first game are the best example of the stealth at its most basic and best. Desperados is the pinnacle of the stealth-strategy genre represented elsewhere in this list by Commandos 2.

Across beautifully drawn levels, the heroes of the piece move through a hit parade of Western locations and scenarios, sneaking by, shooting and subduing the outlaws who stand between them and their bounty. The various player characters have a diverse skillset and several abilities can operate in combination to unleash new tactics. While airborne, he can tackle enemies, defenestrating them in the process.

Essentially allowing the player to rewrite the rules of a level on the fly, the Crosslink targets specific features of the building to be infiltrated and rewires their connections.

A light switch can be connected to a security door, causing guards to inadvertently toggle the lock when they try to turn the lights on. Gunpoint is a game in which it is possible to trap guards within their own security rooms by confusing computer systems. It is a game in which propulsion pants are somehow secondary to intelligent and intricate stealth.

Where can I buy it: Steam , direct from the developer. Read more: Our review , and a preview. What else should I be playing if I like this: The Swindle is a faster and more chaotic 2d infiltration and robbery game. Neon Struct looks like a working prototype for a new Deus Ex game. The visuals are beautifully minimalist, ensuring that levels are legible, and yet the locations you infiltrate are recognizable as real places.

Despite its brief running time and abstract appearance, Neon Struct manages to tell a story and build a world. But the simplicity and brevity are virtues in this case. From a few ingredients, including a superb synth soundtrack, Neon Struct delivers a delicious course of slick and stylish stealth. Read more: Our review. And a superb game. Cameras could be fired from guns and attached to walls or ceilings to provide remote viewing of locations, and sound as well as light travelled within the environments.

The Splinter Cell games can seem dated, perhaps due to their near-future now being the recent past, but Chaos Theory provides a superb collection of toys within its grim military playgrounds. Notes: The soundtrack is the work of Amon Tobin. His jazzy album Bricolage is a stone cold classic. Where can I buy it: Steam , Uplay. What else should I be playing if I like this: There are all kinds of games in the wider Clancyverse, including the earlier Splinter Cell games, which are recommended, and the later ones, which you should read about before taking the plunge.

Action creeps in and stealth is somewhat displaced. As well as handling both the stealth and first-person melee combat well, Riddick is a fine example of how to work with a license. Extending the backstory rather than retelling a story better suited to cinema, Butcher Bay plants itself in a setting suited to the kind of close quarters sneaking, stabbing and skull-smashing that suits Riddick as a player character.

The balance just about tips towards the newer Athena, and in any case you can only obtain Butcher second-hand now anyway. Where can I buy it: GOG. Cate Archer makes for an excellent protagonist, peculiarly snooty and unlikeable in some ways, while defiant and ass-kickingly pleasing in others.

The pleasure of using gadgets to approach situations in your own chosen way is immense, with a good mix of stealth, action, driving and narrative. One that really worked and impresses with its uncommon inventiveness even now.

Wit, too: shooters imbued with comedy to anything like this extent were rare then, and even rarer now. The levels are also more open, with a few exceptions, allowing for more experimentation. It's the setpieces, such as the tornado-in-a-trailer-park, that are creaking the most as age catches up with them.

Spectacular at the time, some of NOLF 2's more extravagant flourishes feel like distractions rather than attractions. But the core of the game, and its predecessor, are as good as anything the wonderful Monolith have ever made.

Where can I buy it: : The rights are tied up in a knot no-one can or, more likely, wants to untangle. So second-hand's your only recourse for now. Last year, plans for a re-release were announced , but nothing's happened yet. What else should be playing if I like this: Hitman: Blood Money does gadgets and stealth impeccably well, and even weaves absurdist and slapstick humour into its assassination vignettes.

Or there's Dishonored for a more flexible and serious yet fantastical approach to the gadgety stealth shooter. Alien: Isolation is one of the few games within the genre to model its antagonists behavior in convincing fashion, however, rather than relying on scripted events and ghost train ghouls. That equipment, and the ability to hide under furniture and in lockers, feeds into a system of sound, sight and sneaking.

Outsmarting guards, letting them kill their own friends in a panic, or cleverly subverting their attention before striking them down is so immensely satisfying! What makes Mark of the Ninja awesome:. With a trailer that took the world by force, Dishonored is a well-known, well-liked, first-person, stealth-action game. With deep mechanics allowing for several playstyles, whether it is mobile, lethal, sneaky or explosive, the game provides the player with not only choices in terms of personal skills, but also the route they choose to approach and exit a mission.

What makes Dishonored awesome:. Through the flames and fire: Master a wide variety of spells and abilities to take on your foes. Running on the Unity engine, created with a gorgeous palette of colors, Aragami is a third-person stealth game. You take control of a ninja who is able to manipulate shadows. Like other games on the list, you can choose whether to your abilities with full lethality or if you want to remain a ghost, hidden in the dark, never to be seen.

What makes Aragami awesome:. From the darkness: Master the ability to strike from the shadows, with monsters from other worlds helping you take down your foes. In the shadows: Or use your ability to manipulate darkness to fool and deceive, never allowing the enemy to lay their eyes on you. Known for breaking grounds in terms of game mechanics, namely crowd-fighting dynamics and stealth.

Batman Arkham City is widely regarded as the best game of series, taking the player into an open-world with access to Gotham City. Being the Batman himself, the player can use stealth, fear, and intimidation to their advantage in the fight against crime. What makes Batman: Arkham series awesome:. Wombo combo: Chain together multiple hits between bad guys as you take them down in style.

Playing out like the cult-classic the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Dead By Daylight provides intense scares for you and your friends. Either, you are an unlucky guy, caught in the sights of a merciless killer, OR, you are said killer, looking for the previously mentioned unlucky guy.

Guess what happens if the two were to suddenly meet? What makes Dead By Daylight awesome:. Cat and mouse: Stay well out of sight of the killer.

One of my personal favorites. Taking place in the universe of Ridley Scott that many science fiction lovers absolutely adore. But, besides that, at the core, it is a well-polished and deeply intriguing survival game. You play as Ripley, doing your best to survive on a space station, as a terrifying monster stalks your every move.

Hopefully, you can make it off the station in one piece. What makes Alien Isolation awesome:. Not this time: Trick the Alien by throwing noise-makers and give yourself enough time to run away. You are Sean Devlin, an Irish resistance member in occupied France. With a stern determination, you embark on a journey to push out the nazi forces. Only by inspiring the regular people, by disrupting the German war machine, can you turn the tides and finally give France its independence.

What makes The Saboteur awesome:. On top of things: Take to the rooftops to stay out of sight of the Germans. Keen eye: And then strike them from afar, hitting previously placed dynamite to take out multiple people with a single shot. A viral sensation sweeping across the internet, Thief Simulator puts you in the shoes of a regular, every-day thief.

Your mission is to break into peoples houses and ruin their day by stealing everything of value they possess.