Top 10 Games: Stealth
The highest-graded stealth games we have reviewed, best first.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the PatriotsA maximalist send-off that spends the PS3's entire budget closing every loop Solid Snake ever opened.Read the review
Batman: Arkham CityRocksteady takes a perfect corridor game outdoors and somehow keeps every corridor's precision intact.
The Last of Us Part IITechnically staggering, mechanically superb, and structurally determined to make you resent it.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainThe best-playing stealth sandbox ever shipped, wrapped around a story that visibly runs out of road.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake EaterA Cold War tragedy disguised as a survival sneaker, with the series' best bosses and its most complete ending.
Dishonored 2The Clockwork Mansion and A Crack in the Slab are the two best levels Arkane has ever built, and possibly anyone has.
Hitman: World of AssassinationThree games of clockwork murder folded into one, and the most complete stealth sandbox a player can buy.
A Plague Tale: RequiemThree hundred thousand rats and one devastating sibling story, held back only by stiff stealth.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos TheoryThe stealth genre's cleanest statement of intent, where light, sound and a knife are the entire toolkit.
Assassin's Creed UnityThe most beautiful city the series ever built, launched a year before it actually worked.
