26 Best Stealth Games on Steam

Beholder is an Adventure, Strategy and Single-player video game developed by Warm Lamp Games and published by Alawar Entertainment. The game offers a thrilling gameplay inspired by Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Ray Bradbury. In the game, the player controls the protagonist named as Carl, who is a government installed landlord in the state of totalitarian. The government hires the player to spy on the tenants, and his ultimate task is to chase the tenants and efforts to record their conversation. There are a series of levels, and the player manipulates the landscape from a side-scroll perspective. The player needs to reports anyone of violating the laws and fulfill the objectives to earn points. In the game, the player has an option to follow the instruction of the government or team up with those people who are suffering from the oppressive directives. With excellent mechanics, wonderful gameplay, and exciting graphics, Beholder is the best game to play.

The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing is an excellent new Action-RPG video game developed by NewcoreGames. The game is based on Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula and features the character of Young Van Helsing, son of the most famous and legendary vampire Hunter named Abraham Van Helsing, The game takes place in Gothic-Noir era of the 19th century in East Europe. It allows you to go against the Vampires, Werewolves and Monsters in order to eliminate them using your special abilities, magic and that time’s modern Monster hunting weapons and save the defenseless people from their cruel reign. Set in a totally Fictitious Universe, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing takes you to the dark realms of Borgova, situated in the midst of 19th Century Europe and tasks you to eliminate all the Evil creatures roaming in the premises of the City and lift up the fear that’s drowning Borgova day by day. As the son of a famous Vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing, you must show courage, eliminate all the evils and keep the family legacy going on. With a brilliant story driven gameplay, beautiful visuals and amazing environment and scenarios, The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing is one amazing Action-RPG video game to play and enjoy.

Hidden in Plain Sight is an Action, Stealth and Local Multiplayer video game produced and published by Adam Spragg. The game offers an exciting gameplay that you have never experienced before. There are several characters are present, and you can select one of them, and your ultimate task is to fulfill your goals while remaining undetected. It has multiple modes, and you must control a character and interact with NPCs in each mode. You are given an objective, and you have to remove other players from the game to progress. In each goal, you must interact with non-player characters, accomplish your goal, and take out other players before they catch you. In Death Race mode, you have to race against other players with an objective to reach the finish line before any to win. In race event, each character has a gun with one bullet and the ability to remove one player from the contest. As the game advances, it becomes challenging to play and unlock further content like modes, levels, and more. With immersive gameplay, attractive music, smooth controls, and unique mechanics, Hidden in Plain Sight is the best game to play and enjoy.

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea is a Downloadable Content Pack for the original game BioShock Infinite created by Irrational Games and published by 2K Games. The game mixes the Adventure, Stealth and First-person Shooter elements and offers Single-player mode only. It takes place after the event of BioShock Infinite in Columbia, a floating city known as Rapture in 1912. It introduces two different protagonists such as Booker DeWitt as a detective and Elizabeth as a female protagonist. By combining the limited spaces of BioShock and BioShock 2, the game offers a massive environment to explore with more dynamic combat system. To start the game, the player needs to select his character either as a male or a female and his ultimate task is to explore the environment to complete a set of missions to earn points. The player can manipulate world from either on foot or by a pneumo-line (a roller coaster). BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea offers enhanced graphics, mechanics, and prominent features to hardcore players. With brilliant gameplay and smooth controls, BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea is the best game to play and enjoy.

Overgrowth is an Action, Parkour, Martial Arts, Third-person Perspective and Single-player Adventure video game released by Wolfire Games. It is the sequel to Lugaru and takes place in the pre-industrial world populated with fighter wolves, rabbits, rats, cats and dogs. The story of the game focuses on the Island known as Lugaru and cast you in the role of the ninja rabbit. Your task is to explore the unforgivable environment and take part in brutal combat with a variety of enemies and weapons. You have to rank-up your level to enhance your abilities and skills. Navigate the environment from a third-person perspective, fight against different creatures and take down them using melee weapons in fierce combat. As the game progress, other weapons and tools will be unlocked. Show off your fighting skills and impress your friends. Your character can run, walk, fight and jump. Maintain your health and avoid the enemy attack to progress. Compete against different foes in several levels and engage yourself in 3D environment experience. Jump from building to building and stealth and melee weapons to silently take down your foes. Open-world Environment, lots of Tools, powerful NPCs, Stealth element, challenging Objects, etc. are the prominent features in the game. Overgrowth is the best game for hardcore players.

Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine brings Stealth and Action elements for those who love playing challenging games. The game revolves around strategy, stealth, and top-down elements and supports both Single and Multiplayer modes created and published by Pocketwatch Games. The game comprises over four players and each can controls various character while they participates in robberies and heists in different locations. One player can lead a team of eight characters and each character offers its unique characteristics. There is a different between Single and Multiplayer modes such as the player can’t revived after die in single-player while in another hand, the player must be revived in multiplayer mode before the level completed. There is a set of levels and each level goes tough as the player gain experience. Explore the world, complete quests, gain experience and unlock further features in the game to become master. With superb exciting mechanics, addictive gameplay, excellent sounds, and the best controls, Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine is the wonderful game to play and enjoy for those who wants to enjoy the criminal life.

Saints Row 2 is an Action-Adventure, Open World, Single and Multiplayer video game developed by Volition and published by THQ. It is the second game in the series of Saints Row. The game takes place in the fictional city known as Stilwater 5-year after the release of the first game. It casts you in the role of the protagonist and tasked you to lead a Third Street gang and compete against three evil gangs who threatened the city. It offers an open environment and enables you to use different weapons and melee attacks to take down your foes. It offers the similar gameplay like GTA series. There are different types of vehicles, boats, airplanes and motorcycles to drive. The game lets you explore the game world either by vehicles or on foot. Earn money by completing missions and use them to buy a weapon, vehicles and more. Move freely around the world, navigate the environment and play with your style. The world is distributed into 45 neighborhoods and twenty districts. Saints Row 2 offers key features such as Co-op, Killer Combat, Freedom to Explore, challenging Missions, Customization and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Hotline Miami is an Action, Violent, Top-down, and Single-player Shooter video game developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital. The game takes place in the fictional world Miami in 1989 and follows tow protagonists named Biker and Jacket. According to the story, the protagonist receives a calls who instruct them to start operation against the Local Russian Mafia. You can select your character and dive into the game world where you can explore it from top-down perspective with stealth element. As the story progress, the game becomes more challenging violent and you have to face different challenges such as powerful foes, and objectives. The entire game is divided into several chapters and each chapter has a set of several stages. Explore each level, obtain power-ups, score the highest points and unlock further content. Slaughter the members of Russian mafia using different weapons and keep your city clean from them. With breathtaking story, brilliant mechanics, and superb visuals, Hotline Miami is the best game to play and enjoy.

Realm of the Mad God is an MMOFPS video game by Deca games. The game offers a Multiplayer Shooting elements as well and allows the players to enjoy the fantastic combination of Co-op and Bullet-hell gaming. Realm of the Mad God offers 8-bit pixelated visual Art style and lets the players control multiple player characters who have been transferred to the Realm of Oryx. The Characters are actually there to be the food of always hungry minions of the titular entity. The death of all the characters is permanent, but after death, the player rises again with all of the blazing weapons that can be stored in player’s weapon inventory. All the player has to do is to free himself and others from this godforsaken world and to that they must fight off all of the minions and gory monsters unleashed by the Titular entity. Realm of the Mad God lets the players start blazing the guns the minute after they wake up again. Players can use various weapons and make perfect projectiles of bullets to neutralize the enemies and to earn experience points, fame, and upgrades. With amazingly easy controls, the game allows the players to move in the game world by using the WASD keys on the keyboards mouse to aim and shoot. Realm of the Mad God also awards the players with experience points for killing the monsters and allows them to teleport from one place to another and enjoy a truly remarkable and fast-paced gameplay. Players can level themselves up by earning more and more experience points and when they are at the maximum level of expertise they can go against the more powerful enemies and unlock cool upgrades and classes. With all the amazing PvP fun and Guild fighting, Realm of the Mad God lets the players build their own guilds, and go against over fifty online players, eliminate the targets and enjoy playing a remarkable MMORPG, and shooting video game.

For all those Sci-Fi Shooter enthusiasts who dearly love playing games, Dead Effect is actually a gift. This amazing game is packed with hardcore Action, Thrill, Stealth and Horror-Survival elements and offers a unique game-play experience. The game takes you to outer space and leaves you in a Star Ship fitted with a new FTL technology. The ship’s destination is a planet named as Tau Ceti F and after setting the course, all crew goes into hyper-sleep but when an elite member of Unit 13 wakes up, he finds the ship crowded with the Undead. In order to survive the Zombies, he starts finding the means to save himself and the story goes on. Dead Effect offers amazingly brutal encounters with Zombies, and leaves you alone to survive and to find other survivors. Your task is simple, get up, lace yourself with all the available weapons, start hunting down the undead and use your stealth abilities to prey on your targets. With amazing single-player and long campaigns, exploration, survival, loads of in-game achievements and state of the art weapons, and eerie soundtracks, Dead Effect offers brilliant visuals, a great story and a fantastic game-play.

Splinter Cell or also known as “Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell” is an award-winning series of Action, RPG, Shooter and Stealth video games. The series offers a number of popular titles and keeps on with the standards that every game in the series offers. The Splinter Cell series offers biggest hits such as Blacklist and Conviction packed with all the blasting action, unique mechanics, and countless new elements. Throughout the series, Splinter Cell offers versatility in gameplay, new stories, new characters and offers plenty of room for the gameplay. The games in Splinter Cell series tend to provide with all kinds of futuristic environments, gadgets, and weapons as well as various types of enemies and stories related to them. Providing with both single and multiplayer games, Splinter Cell offers loads of cool upgrades, and co-op modes as well. The series provides with the character of Sam Fisher as the protagonist who works for the Black-ops Subdivision known as “Third Echelon.” The players are allowed to control Fisher and help him sabotage the plans of his enemies. With a tag of Critically Acclaimed and Commercially Successful Action and Stealth series, Splinter Cell focuses on providing with the quality gaming that every diehard fan of Action and Stealth gaming seeks. A new game of the series is in development phases. Hopefully, it would be as great as the previous titles and would offer loads of hours of unlimited entertainment.

Velvet Assassin is a 2009 mega hit and an amazing Action-Adventure and Stealth video game by Replay Studios. The game puts you right into the character of a World War II era British Spy and a truly great Assassin named Violette Summer who goes undercover behind the enemy lines to sabotage the whole Nazi war operation. The great story of the game is inspired by a real life secret agent, a spy and a saboteur named Violette Szabo and lets you experience an amazing adventure filled, action-packed and a really stealthy game-play ever. With super thrilling set up, Velvet Assassin provides with amazing stealth and combat techniques, great weapons all based up on the same era the game sets in. another cool feature of the game includes varying lightening that actually provides with three different states of the severity of the environment around the protagonist and she acts accordingly to save herself up from the enemies and plans her course of further actions. With a superb combination of Action-Adventure, Stealth elements, a great story and an engaging game-play, Velvet Assassin is a great game to play.

Out There Somewhere is a wonderful addition to the Stealth-based Action, Adventure and Puzzle-platform gaming. Inspired by the big names such as Cave Story and Super Metroid, Out There Somewhere lets you be a lone explorer stuck on an unknown planet with a very low fuel in you ship. Your Survival and Escape plan depends on reaching to the planet core, so you must be good at traversing the planet, going through the platforms, obstacles and encounters with the enemies. With an amazingly twisted and puzzling story, challenging game levels, creative nature, superbly easy controls and an immersive game-play, Out There Somewhere will surely entertain you good. Do try it out, it’s fun.

This War of Mine is a superb new Side-Scrolling, Action, Survival and Stealth video game that takes you to an amazing war torn world where you will have to act as a survivor instead of being a soldier. Your basic task is to survive in a world where almost everything is so rare. You’ll have to survive facing the worst shortage of food, medical supplies and under the heavy danger of snipers and hostile scavengers. As the game is set in a war torn world and it features day and night cycles as the main game-play times, you should avoid getting out of the shelter during the day because the snipers won’t let you out, but in night you must get out using your sneaky and stealth skills, accompany one of your trusted men and go out on scavenging missions for food and other supplies. Your main task is to stay alive, collect the items, return to your hideout, craft different items and trade them for different goods etc. Instead of going on missions to kill the enemies, This War of Mine tasks you to stay in your hideout, defend it against the enemies (Snipers and Scavengers) and save everybody around you by the use of different weapons, tactics and your skills. With a wonderful setting, great visual details, an addictive game-play, This War of Mine is a cool game to play and enjoy.

Stealth Bastard: Tactical Espionage Arsehole Deluxe is a wonderfully addictive Stealth-based Puzzle-Platform video game. The game allows you to traverse through a deadly environment filled with traps, deadly lasers, Enemy Robots, and tasks you to complete different tasks like turning on and off the switches, avoiding the light and remaining in the dark to fool the guards, and finally get to the exit door in order to escape this godforsaken world. With three main difficulty levels, equally equipped enemies, over 80 challenging game levels and obstacles, amazing unlockable items, gadgets etc. 8 main game chapters, wonderful 2D visuals and addictive game-play, Stealth Bastard: Tactical Espionage Arsehole Deluxe is a fun game to play and enjoy.

Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty, the remake of the 1997’s super hit Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee is a marvelous Stealth-based Action and Puzzle-Platform video game by Oddworld Inhabitants. The game offers new and enhanced visuals, mechanics and game-play and allows you to be Abe, traverse through ancient ruins, dodge a lot of different kinds of beasts, avoid the nifty guards, and finally sabotage your boss’s plan of converting all labor into tasty treats (Meat Snacks) of the RaptureFarms. With amazing new visuals, challenging game-play, improved and audio and controls, Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty is a wonderful game to play and enjoy. Do try it out for and awesome Action filled Puzzle Platform experience.

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings developed by Polish Studios, CD Projekt Red and published by Atari, Inc., Badnai Namco Games and CyberFront in the same year of 2011. This super addicting game is a sequel to The Witcher and is packed with great Action-Adventure, RPG and intense Hack and Slash elements. The game is based on the story from a novel written by a Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. From its first appearance in the market to the present day, this game is a real success. Graphics, game-play and story-line is quite to its predecessor. With an open world gaming environment, Stealth mode, tons of new content and bug fixes, this game attracts the players a lot. The Witcher, genetically mutated Geralt takes you to an amazing land of wonders. Battles with monsters and humans and their extremely disastrous super powers are a key element in the success of the game. Playing this game won’t cost you a bit of tiredness and make you feel sorry for your precious time. Give it a try and experience an extremely engaging and thrilling nature of the game.

PayDay 2 is First-person Shooter, Tactical Co-operative Multiplayer and Stealth video game. Game kicks off after the events of its predecessor PayDay and introduces a New Gang of Washington D.C. The game allows you to be a member of that Gang and go heisting banks, robbing Jewelry Shops, stealing Cars, Distributing Narcotics and stealing whatever you want in Washington D.C. along with 2 AI players or team up with friends and enjoy amazing Co-Operative Multiplayer gaming. With an Action-packed game-play and all the super thriller nature, PayDay 2 is a blast. If you love playing games like PayDay 2, the following Action-packed titles would definitely be of your great interest. Let’s have a look at some of the best alternatives to PayDay 2.

Gunpoint is a Stealth-based Puzzle-Platform video game by Suspicious Developments. The game sets you up into the character of a Freelance Spy who completes different jobs assigned by the Clients to break into high security zones, buildings and secretive facilities to steal sensitive and classified Data. With a bunch of wonderful settings game levels, challenging puzzles to solve, and the use of some really stealthy tactics, Gunpoint offers a brilliant action filled game-play. The game is divided into a number of challenging missions and it allows you to be the Agent “Richard Conway”, a skilled agent and a true stealthman. Your task is to simply get into the building in which you have to carry out the mission, go sneaky on all the guards, cameras and lasers, jump on platforms to reach to the point where you have to collect the information and head back to the rendezvous point to complete the mission. Laced up with all kinds of challenging and unforgiving obstacles, the passage in almost every mission is quite hard to go through so if you are up to the task, let’s do it.

Batman: Arkham City is an amazingly addictive and engaging Action-RPG and Beat em’ Up video game by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game revolves around the character of Batman, who gets imprisoned in the Arkham City, a Mega Prison that surrounds the whole slums of Fictitious Gotham City. With no memories of how he got there, Batman tries to uncover the sinister plan of his imprisonment and to find a way to get out of this Godforsaken place. The game allows you to take down your arch enemy The Joker, using all of your advanced Stealth, parkour and fighting, Detective and Exploration abilities. Batman: Arkham City offers a number of advanced gadgets, weapons and other items to use against the enemies and allows yo to be the one true hero of the Gotham City. With super action filled gameplay, amazing 3D visuals and a great game story, Batman: Arkham City is a wonderful game to play.

Half-Life is a Super Thrilling Sci-Fi FPS (First person Shooter) video game by Valve Corporation. This brilliant game is one of the trend setters in FPS genre and it provided with a wonderful FPS series of games that actually ruled over the world. With a huge following and a worldwide acclaim, Half-Life was one of the best game of its time. Sci-Fi and FPS characteristics, great mechanics and an engaging game-play made the players love this game. The game is set in a Remote Desert situated in the City of New Mexico and it takes you to the premises of Black mesa Research Facility, a Secret Complex that resembles greatly to the Area 51. Half Life lets you be a skilled Scientist and a Theoretical Physicist and tells the story of the events and aftermath of a Black Mesa Experiment gone wrong. The Experiment goes horribly wrong and as a result an undefinable Phenomenon happens that opens up portals in the facility and the Aliens swarm down.No your task is to survive by killing the alien enemies at sight because they have no mercy for humans at all. on the other hand HECU (Hazardous Environment Combat Unit) keeps on struggling against the aliens. In order to stop the widespread chaos and panic HECU tries to suppress the matter by confiscating all of the data and Scientists related to the Incident. Freeman gets barred to but soon with the help of fellow scientists he reaches down to the other end of the portal, in the Xen territory in order to eliminate the Nihilanth, who is keeping the portal opened. Half Life offers a strong and fantastic narrative, great story amazing gameplay as well as loads of fantastic perks, cool weapons etc.

Left 4 Dead 2 is a Zombie, Horror Survival video game developed and published by Valve Corporation. Left 4 Dead 2 is a First-person Shooter video game set on a global scale, infected by the Green Flu which is responsible to transform humans into extremely aggressive and deadly zombies. The story of the game revolves around the four survivors Coach, Ellis, Nick and Rochelle who are immune to the flu. In order to survive they travel from place to place items like food, medicines, weapons etc. You can choose one of the characters as protagonist and play the game. Because of being the main character of the game you act as their leader. The game allows you to use different firearms and melee weapons according to the scenario on a specific point in the game. For example if you encounter a zombie or multiple in the shape of hordes, you can engage in close combats using melee weapons, and if you are on a safe distance you can use guns like Pistols or snipers to shoot down the zombies. The game provides you with a multiplayer gaming mode, so you can play with other online players too. You also get to play 5 campaigns, in which you get provided with safe houses and check points and a goal to survive till the end of the campaign. Left 4 Dead 2 is an amazingly addictive and quite thrilling game with a super action and adventure packed game-play. Left 4 Dead 2 is available to play on Windows, Mac, Xbox, Steam and Linux platforms.

Max Payne 3 is a super Action-Thriller Third-Person Shooter video game by Rockstar Studios. The game is set in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil and features the one and only New York City detective Max Payne as the main protagonist. Max flees to Sao Paulo and starts working as a Private Security Contractor after the dismissal from NYPD and killing the son of a local mob boss. In Sao Paulo, Max gets stuck deep into a quest filled with Treachery and Fatality and the real action begins. Max Payne 3 continues the story of Max’s hardcore adventures from where it took a pause in Max Payne 2. This Film-Noir and cinematic action-filled video game feature a great story, action-packed game-play and state of the art graphics along with 3 super-engaging Chapters, Arcade Mode, Multiplayer gaming mode, a lot of Collectibles and a huge range of Weapons. Max Payne 3 is no doubt a great blend of Action and Shooting elements that totally leaves you spellbound for a good amount of time. With all the action and Drama presented in the game is one amazing Action Thriller to enjoy.

The Witcher is an Action-Adventure, RPG and Hack and Slash video game created by CD Projekt RED. The game is based on a novel of the same name and is set in a Medieval Era. The story of the game revolves around Geralt a Known Witcher and a Monster Hunter gifted with supernatural powers. The Witcher offers Top-Down and First Person gaming perspectives and allows you to engage in the most epic battles against the monsters and Beasts. You can choose anyone of the three fighting techniques according to the scenarios, use whatever weapons you see fit for specific type of battles and are capable of slashing the foes. The Witcher lets you fight against a number of different kinds of enemies (Monsters, Beasts etc.) and use your supernatural powers to defeat or tame them. The game consists of seven chapters and features best HD graphics, Hardcore Action-packed and engaging game-play and a well written story.

Assassin’s Creed is a 2007 hit video game that offers a brilliant combination of Action, Adventure, Stealth, RPG and Shooting elements. Set in the Fictional Alternate history of real world and the events, the game tells the story of a centuries old struggle and battles of the Assassins and the Templars. Both of them are struggling for one goal but with the different ideologies and ways. The Assassins are fighting for peace with the help of their advanced skills and the Templars are struggling for peace by seizing control. The story of the game revolves around the character of the protagonist named as Desmond Miles who happens to be part of the Third Crusade in the Holy land in the year 1191. The protagonist relives the memories of his ancestors by the use of a machine named as Animus, goes on to the journey of past and acts as one of his ancestor named as Altair Ibn-La’Ahad, a key member of the Assassin’s Faction. This transcendence from one timeline to another takes the protagonist to the raging conflict between the Knight Templars and Assassins over an ancient Artifact known as the Piece of Eden, used to control the minds. Your task is to lead your faction, engage in epic battles with your enemies and defeat them to get to the Piece of Eden, confiscate the artifact and lets the league of Assassins control immense power. Assassin’s Creed is a brilliant Action, Adventure, Stealth and Shooting video game that literally takes you to the world of wonders and allows you to act as one true hero the world has ever seen.

Dynamite Jack is an Action-Adventure, Top-down, and Stealth video game created and published by Hassey Enterprises, Inc. The game supports Single-player mode and the story revolves around a brave space marine who stuck in the Anathema Mines and loaded with only flashlight and bombs. Put yourself in the role of the protagonist with a challenging task to find a way to freedom. There are lots of guards, enemies, and bots are finding you and you must avoid them by detecting you and use bombs to destroy them all. Explore the world from top-down perspective, find a way using torch light and stealth element to sneak bombs and guards. The game has twenty-eight exciting levels filled with robotic spiders, lasers, scientists, and guards. The level editor features allows you create your level in your style and play. Survive as long as possible and score the highest points to become the master. With most prominent features, exciting gameplay, and superb soundtracks, Dynamite Jack is the best game to play and enjoy.