Top 10 Stealth Games To Play in 2025

Are you looking for a new stealth game to play in 2025? If so, here are the best stealth games to play in 2025.

In a market dominated by action-adventure games, games with a focus on stealth provide a unique experience. Picking off enemies one after another in a slow, methodical manner or avoiding the predatory eyes of a dangerous enemy provides a thrill unlike any other.

Here are ten games you can play in 2025 if you’re looking for a stealth-focused experience.

10. A Plague Tale: Requiem

The sequel to the critically acclaimed A Plague Tale: Innocence by Asobo Studio, A Plague Tale: Requiem continues the journey of siblings Amicia and Hugo de Rune through a plague-stricken France. Similar to the first game, Requiem’s gameplay is almost entirely stealth-based. It requires proper strategizing to avoid both the soldiers of the Inquisition and the horde of plague-carrying rats.

Diverging from the previous game, however, Requiem expands the options available to you in various ways. These include giving you more weapons and allowing you to re-enter stealth after being spotted. Coupled with an excellent and emotional story, A Plague Tale: Requiem is one stealth game you won’t soon forget.

9. Alien: Isolation

Released in 2014 and developed by Creative Assembly, Alien: Isolation is based on the Alien film series by Ridley Scott. It features an engineer aboard an abandoned space station filled with all sorts of dangerous enemies: hostile human survivors, malfunctioning androids, and, of course, the titular Alien, a Xenomorph.

Alien: Isolation’s Xenomorph is one of the most terrifying enemies in video game history. It tracks you relentlessly throughout the game and cannot be defeated. Worst of all, it adapts to any tricks you use to avoid it, such as hiding in vents or creating distractions. The highly intelligent model used for the Xenomorph and the various tools made available to avoid it make Alien: Isolation one of the best survival horror stealth games ever made.

8. Hitman: World of Assassination

Hitman: World of Assassination is the definitive version of the Hitman trilogy. It features content from Hitman, Hitman 2, and Hitman 3 in one neat package. Here, you take the role of the infamous assassin Agent 47 to eliminate any and all targets you are hired to take care of.

World of Assassination features a plethora of engaging maps, extraordinary targets, and equally extraordinary methods of elimination. The game excellently mixes humorous moments with the grim nature of the game. This combination will surely make any stealth fan happy.

7. Ghost of Tsushima

Ghost of Tsushima is a 2020 game developed by Sucker Punch Studios and revolves around Jin Sakai, a lone samurai warrior standing against the Mongol invasion of Japan. Featuring a mix of combat and stealth, the game gives almost total freedom in how you can handle an encounter. You can either take on entire hordes with just your blade or strike from the shadows and cement your legend as The Ghost.

The stealth in the game features a variety of tools such as kunai, smoke bombs, wind chimes, and poisonous darts. These supplement the freedom of movement and other available options, such as disguises. The dichotomy between stealth and combat is also reflected in the story of the game. Throughout the story, the game questions the weight of honor versus duty. Ghost of Tsushima is one of the greatest games in recent history and is worth taking a look at for any player.

6. Mark of the Ninja

Released in 2012 and developed by Klei Entertainment, Mark of the Ninja is a critically acclaimed stealth platformer that lives up to its promise to make you know what it is to be a ninja.

The game heavily features stealth mechanics based on vision. Anything invisible to the character is also invisible to you. Additionally, you can hide from enemies in dark areas but are quite visible in illuminated ones. The game also features terror tactics, allowing you to intimidate your enemies. This, coupled with a variety of enemies, a large collection of levels, and a gripping story revolving around the conflict between tradition and technology, makes for a game sure to be loved by any stealth enthusiast.

5. Assassin’s Creed: Mirage

Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed franchise is practically synonymous with the term stealth game and Assassin’s Creed: Mirage, the latest game in the franchise lives up to the franchise’s reputation. Taking a step away from the role-playing focus of the franchise over the last few games, Mirage returns to the stealth-based origins of Assassin’s Creed.

Set in the city of Baghdad, the game’s map is smaller than the previous few games and once again makes use of the “Black Box” missions introduced in Assassin’s Creed Unity. The game also has all the classic features of the franchise, like the Hidden Blade, smoke bombs, and an eagle companion.

The game also introduces a new ability called the Assassin’s Focus allowing you to eliminate up to 5 enemies at once. All these are just some of the reasons why Mirage is one of the best Assassin’s Creed games in terms of stealth.

4. Batman: Arkham Knight

The fourth installment in Rocksteady’s Arkham franchise, Batman: Arkham Knight, was released in 2015 and features the titular Dark Knight on a one-man, one-night crusade against an entire army that has occupied Gotham City.

Although the Arkham franchise consists of action-adventure games, they heavily feature stealth in many parts of the game. These games have one of the best stealth systems of any game. Knight, in particular, takes everything from its predecessors and dials it up to eleven. A much larger collection of enemies, a vast array of gadgets, and entirely new abilities altogether make this one of the best stealth experiences of any game.

Additionally, the game features numerous challenge maps where you can push your stealth skills to the limit. The experience of playing the Arkham games is unmatched and it is one of the finest takes on the Batman mythos.

3. Dishonored 2

Dishonored 2 is the sequel to Dishonored by Arkane Lyon and was released in 2016. In the game, you are given the option to play as either Korvo Attano – the protagonist of the first game – or his daughter Emily in an attempt to reclaim the throne.

Much like the first game, stealth or even killing are both optional, and you can progress through the story in either way—albeit with consequences based on your actions. The game features more challenging stealth than its prequel but makes up for this with the abilities afforded to you.

Both protagonists have different abilities, and some of the ones you can use are teleportation, intangibility, and even stopping time. Dishonored 2 is one of the most exciting stealth games ever made and is well worth taking a look at.

2. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Chaos Theory is the third game in Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell series. Released in 2005, this game is widely considered the best in the Splinter Cell franchise, one of the best stealth games ever made, and also one of the greatest games of all time.

The Splinter Cell games’ association with stealth is well known, and Chaos Theory more than lives up to this reputation. Despite its age, the game features some of the most refined stealth mechanics of any game. It measures both noise and light levels and features enemies who employ a variety of tactics to flush you out. However, despite its incredible focus on stealth, the game does not force you to sneak through all the levels. At the cost of your score, you can abandon stealth to clean up the good old-fashioned way.

Revolutionary stealth mechanics wrapped around a riveting plot where protagonist Sam Fisher rushes to defuse an international crisis make it no wonder why this game is put on a pedestal. You should still give this stealth game a shot in 2025.

1. Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain

Metal Gear Solid practically defined the stealth genre and made it what it is today. The impact Metal Gear has had on gaming as a whole is indescribable. So it is only fitting that creator Hideo Kojima’s final work on the series be one of the greatest stealth games of all time.

The Phantom Pain features unmatched freedom in the options available to you. This could be assistance from a sniper, a localized airstrike, or even the franchise mainstay of the cardboard box. Metal Gear Solid 5 perfectly encapsulates the overly complicated, ridiculous nature of Kojima’s world. Thus, it is truly deserving of its position as one of—if not the—greatest stealth games of all time.

This was our list of the top 10 stealth games to play in 2025. What games would you recommend?

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