Ten stealth games worth playing today
Ten picks from the catalogue, and why each one still plays today
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The Last of Us 2013
Joel, a smuggler, crosses a United States overrun by infected with Ellie, a girl immune to the infection. Some infected are blind and track you by sound while human bandits rely on sight, so slipping past them unheard or unseen is often the way through.
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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater 2004
Hideo Kojima's stealth game sends the FOX operative Naked Snake into a Soviet jungle in 1964 to rescue a Russian rocket scientist, sabotage a superweapon and eliminate his former mentor, who has defected.
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Deus Ex 2000
JC Denton, an agent with cybernetic enhancements, is drawn in 2052 into a struggle between factions for control of the world. Every mission can be done by stealth, hacking or assault, and it is cited as a prominent example of the immersive sim.
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Dishonored 2012
In Arkane's first person stealth game, Corvo Attano is framed for the murder of the Empress and works his way through Dunwall, a plague ridden city modelled on London and Edinburgh.
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Alien: Isolation 2014
Amanda Ripley hides in lockers and under tables aboard the station Sevastopol, crafting what she can from parts she finds, while an alien that cannot be killed hunts her. Its behaviours unlock over time, so it learns as you play.
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory 2005
Sam Fisher of Third Echelon, a covert branch of the NSA, works in the dark, where an audio monitor weighs every sound he makes against the noise around him. A separate campaign is played by two agents in co op.
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Thief: The Dark Project 1998
Garrett, a master thief trained by a secret society, plies his trade in a fantasy city until a string of robberies draws him into a scheme to unleash chaos on the world. It made light and shadow part of the play and influenced Splinter Cell.
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Mark of the Ninja 2012
In this side scrolling stealth game, a nameless ninja of the present day is caught up in a conflict between ancient ninja tradition and modern technology.
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Commandos 2: Men of Courage 2001
In this real time tactics game, a squad of commandos, each with abilities of their own, carries out missions from 1941 to 1944 across Europe and the Pacific, joined now by the Thief and Whiskey the dog.
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Hitman: Blood Money 2006
A stealth game in which Agent 47, a professional killer, takes contracts across open levels with more than one way to remove each target, many of them made to look like accidents. It is the fourth Hitman.
