Probably the only game on this list where the concept of stealth usually involves very little with being hidden. Play it on: PC, PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360 3. Encounter hostile fellow humans on the game’s spooky floating station? Scurry around them unless you want to start a firefight that will draw the Alien to you and see everyone end up as Xeno lunch. Seeing as the Xenomorph is attracted to noise, stealth is essential. With the titular monster firmly established as an unstoppable killing machine within the first 45 minutes, it’s your job as Ripley’s daughter, Amanda, to sneak and (barely) survive through the next 15 terrifying hours. Isolation is also a terrific stealth game. Jettisoning pulse rifles and firefights for motion trackers and quiet dread, The Creative Assembly taps into the pure “in space, no one can hear you scream” spirit that made Scott’s 1979’s masterwork one of the most influential horror films of all time. The genius of Alien: Isolation is that it leans into Ridley Scott’s hallmark horror, not James Cameron’s bombastic action sequel. Possibly the greatest video game tie-in there’s ever been… and certainly the finest one that involves a nine-foot-tall, slavering beastie with a distinctly penis-shaped head. Taking inspiration from ‘70s cinema – both elements of The Warriors and Halloween are at play – Manhunt is a savagely brutal, totally unforgettable stealth masterpiece.

One minute, Cash is choking the life out of a clown-faced goon as he wraps a plastic bag around his victim’s face, the next he’s plunging a hammer into intimate areas of the male anatomy that should never have hammers introduced to them. Tasked with strangling, eviscerating, and suffocating gangs of progressively more unhinged thugs, the sneaky, super-gruesome games of cat-and-mouse only get more repellent. As Brian Cox’s insidiously creepy director hisses instructions through an earpiece, a night of increasingly ghastly slaughter awaits. Shunted into the shoes of recently freed prisoner James Earl Cash, it’s your job to obey the murderous whims of a sociopathic filmmaker. Rockstar’s virtual snuff film is one of the most deeply unpleasant games you’ll ever play… and that’s not a complaint.

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