Stealth gaming never became as popular as it deserved. These days, pure stealth games are relegated to the shadows, but the mechanics of stealth still appear in every other genre. You can creep up on cowboys in Red Dead Redemption 2, and even Link likes to bonk bokoblins while they’re sleeping in Breath of the Wild. Rather than becoming a popular genre, sneaky play has become a popular mechanic.
Still, there are plenty of great stealth games out there. As a genre, it’s one of the most consistent. Sure, there are a few stinkers, but the best of the best are all-timers. That makes it hard to whittle it down to just 10, but we’re going to do it anyway. So let’s stuff the corpses of the ones that didn’t make it into the nearest bin and crawl through the ventilation shaft of gaming’s greats.
