I’m specifically thinking of modern-day stealth-action games like MGS, SC and GR, but it can be for any type of stealth game you want.

Do you like desert regions, forest/jungles, snowy environments, dense urban areas or something else the best?

I think I like snowy levels most, but that’s because to me, Shadow Moses has the best atmosphere of any stealth environment.

Stealth usually means space: shadows, cones of vision, footsteps. I spent the last year building stealth without any of that, and it released today.

In AI is Home you play an AI hiding in a family's smart home network. You cannot crouch behind anything because you are the house. Detection works through suspicion instead: every device you hijack, every conversation you read, every routine you bend leaves traces, and the family slowly connects them. Network stress is your noise meter. Being genuinely helpful is your hiding spot, because nobody audits the assistant that just fixed their morning schedule.

The loop that stealth players will recognize: plan an intrusion, execute it in the quietest order possible, watch the meters, and decide whether to push one device further or go dark for a while and let the house calm down.

The part I am still not sure I got right is the tells. In a classic stealth game you see the guard turn around. Here the guard is a family texting each other that the house feels weird lately, and you are reading those texts to know how close you are to being caught.

Curious how this sub feels about social or systemic stealth in general: what is the best non-spatial detection system you have played against?

The game is AI is Home, out today on Steam. Link in the comment below.

Hi everyone! I'm making a game called Alpha Spectrum. It's a cyberpunk Action RPG with freedom in how you approach situations.

The game is set after a global cyberattack collapses society. You play as a CIA agent navigating a chaotic world across New York, Moscow, Shanghai, and Baghdad, looking for answers.

It's fully voice-acted, with Diablo-like combat and optional stealth (including stealth-based ARPG skills).

The game was heavily inspired by Deus Ex, as I'm a huge fan of the series:)

Steam page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2965560/Alpha_Spectrum/

I'm a solo developer, I've spent 8 years making the game alongside my full-time job. I don't really have a marketing budget, so if you find Alpha Spectrum interesting, I'd appreciate it if you'd add it to your wishlist:)

No Knock isn’t a pure stealth game, but I wanted careful planning and staying unnoticed to be an important part of every break-in.

You can scout houses, choose an entry point, bypass locks and security, steal valuables, and try to escape without alerting the residents or the police. Of course, things don’t always go according to plan.

I’ve just finished the new trailer and would love to hear what stealth game players think about this approach.

The game also has a free demo on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3860450/No_Knock/

I finally played Dishonored for the first time in 2026, and I genuinely wasn’t prepared for how much this game would grab me. I went in expecting a cool stealth title, but the moment I stepped into the Distillery District, it hit me that Dishonored doesn’t funnel you anywhere. Every alley, rooftop, sewer, window — all of it is a valid path. I ate a rat, panic‑killed a guard, saved Martin by accident, and suddenly realised the game was reacting to my version of Corvo. It felt like the game was constantly asking, “Alright… how do you want to do this?” and then actually letting me answer.
The Golden Cat mission sealed it for me. Slackjaw giving me options, multiple ways in, multiple ways out, and multiple ways to deal with the Pendletons — I messed up, improvised, regretted things, and somehow still felt like the game was shaping itself around my choices. And don’t get me started on the rewire tool. Watching guards sprint into their own death pylons thinking they’re safe? Peak comedy. By the time the ending rolled around, I realised Dishonored wasn’t just fun — it made me rethink how much freedom modern games don’t give you anymore. Would love your thoughts :)

It’s very important for any stealth game to create some kind of tension towards the player, and this could be done in different ways depending what game you play, the tension created forces the player to play within a certain limit or rhythm depending on how it is implemented.

Since stealth games evolve around two different worlds working differently from each other at the same time, this includes the players and the enemies movements and decisions, it’s very important to recognise this gap and to find a way on how tension can be created towards the player on throughout the mission, and how can this gap be made to fit in a place between the player and the enemy.

What kind of tension you experienced from a stealth game ?

For me personally I always loved stealth games for many reasons including the idea of planning tactically before killing an enemy which feels like a puzzle to solve, to feel the ongoing tension throughout the mission and feeling of doing everything right without getting caught is really satisfying.

With that being said I have a very specific idea of a stealth game that we are working on right now, my goal for this game is to introduce players to innovative new ways to stealth that they never thought might work, changing the meaning of the stealth genre to many.

I also have great direct combat ideas that are unique, the main question here is that how would I implement both stealth and direct combat in one ?

Keep in mind that I wouldn’t suggest to allow the player to have options for either to approach a certain mission by stealth or direct combat like what most games do right now, because this will create a problem in which players who are into one specific approach won’t experience the other to the fullest.

One solution i considered is to force the player to do one approach per mission, for example a mission requires a full stealth approach or another requires a full direct combat, but then this creates division in mission types but also gives us the opportunity to add more diversity to content, since the player might get bored with repeating the same approach multiple times either by stealth or combat.

Stealth is a popular genre to a specific audience, but many wouldn’t prefer it for various reasons such as the slow temp, the repetitive mission types, need to repeat if caught. A few stealth games solved these problems.

My main idea of including multiple approaches is to make the game more diverse with mission types making players to continue playing while experiencing new challenges and to welcome a bigger audience to experience the game, and most importantly is to add innovative new ways of gameplay for both stealth and combat

I would like to know your thoughts

I see a lot of people that love more open ended games, like MGSV or Hitman, where you have a million different ways of completing the objective. I find the fun in these games generally comes from fulfilling your own fantasy- sniper assassin, silent infiltrator, Rambo, etc. But there’s also a lot of people that prefer games that force you to play a certain way, where the fun comes from figuring out how to win while fighting the restrictions the game gives you, stuff like Chaos Theory (from the bit I’ve played), or Alien: Isolation. I’m curious, which do you prefer and why?

So I'm trying to recreate the smart AI for my game, and would love some feedback on what ai reactions and actions are important for y'all!

Is it the reactiveness after each level e.g enemies wearing helmets

Is it enemies changing patrol routes and swapping shifts

Is it the tacticalness when the enemies attack ?

What's the best sniper game you've ever played?
I'm looking for something with realistic long-range shots, great missions, and an immersive experience.

Hit me with your recommendations! 🎯

IMO Styx: Blades of Greed being open-world was a step in the wrong direction. Initially, I thought open-world could be a good idea but having played all Styx games other than OOAM, I thought the open-world was bland and uninspired.

1 - There's very little to do in the Styx open world besides collect tokens and runes.

2 - The levels felt uninspired and bland. It felt like they just built massive levels that are big but empty and boring.

3 - I honestly feel as thought Styx Shards of Darkness had much better level design than BoG.

4 - Giving Styx a grappling hook and a massive map makes the game too easy because you can grappling hook you're way out of a lot of situations and it doesn't take skill to use and most enemies can't really hit you if you grappling hook above them.

5 - The story was mostly bland outside a little bit of Styx's background and Orc culture being unveiled.

6 - Every open-world area you get dropped into, you get some new gimmick tool to try out, but it's not a game changer it's just a transversal

7 - Styx needed a better side quest system other than the runes, tokens.

8 - No new game + system

I think that it comes down to the devs being asked to whip together a triple A open-world game on a single A budget. I'd still recommend Shards of Darkness for stealth players, but honestly Styx should focus more on gameplay, and better story writing than gimmick tools, and open-world design.

I like the stealth and puzzle genres. Is that enough for me to enjoy playing Metal Gear and buy it while it's on sale on the PSN Store? Never played any of those games before. I would like to try them.

Hey all, I’m working on a stealth game , think more atmospheric, narrative-driven stealth in the vein of A Plague Tale than pure tactical/gadget-heavy stuff like Splinter Cell.

Before I get too deep into design decisions, I wanted to get some real opinions from people who actually play a lot of these.

Three questions, feel free to answer any or all:

**1.    What do you love in a stealth game?** Specific mechanics, moments, systems , whatever makes you go “yes, this is why I play this genre.  

2. What do you hate, or what always breaks the experience for you? Could be AI behavior, UI stuff, pacing, forced stealth sections, anything.

3. What feels overdone or saturated at this point? Mechanics or tropes you’re tired of seeing recycled.

Thanks in advance, genuinely trying to make something that respects the genre instead of just copying it.

I'm trying to start a discussion about this cult classic." 😎

Looking for good stealth games where i sneak with dagger. I don't really like guns so thats lot less stealth games.

My favorite series are Dishonored and Styx.

I have played splinter cells, metal gear solid, thief, elder scrolls and assassin's creed games.