Best 2025 Video Games for stealth mechanics

#1 Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
4.6

Stealth is a clear strength across reviews, with praise for camo, sneaking, and rewarding no-detection play, despite a few situational frustrations.

Pros: world interactivity, sandbox freedom

Cons: crash stability, learning curve

#2 Arc Raiders
4.5

Stealth was praised through shadows, foliage, detection behavior, and the ability to avoid PvP through careful play.

Pros: frame rate stability, platform-specific feature support

Cons: voice acting, writing quality

#3 Silent Hill f
4.5

Stealth received a positive note from one reviewer who found avoidance viable and encouraged rather than merely optional.

Pros: voice acting, emotional impact

Cons: family friendliness, menu usability

#4 Assassin's Creed Shadows
4.5

Stealth is one of the strongest points across reviews, with darkness, prone movement, assassinations, and Naoe's toolkit repeatedly praised despite occasional execution complaints.

Pros: environmental detail, cross-save support

Cons: writing quality, enemy variety

#5 Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
4.4

Stealth is broadly praised as deeper, more flexible, and more fun, with many reviewers comparing the expanded toolkit favorably to Kojima’s stealth legacy.

Pros: animation quality, facial animations

Cons: quest design, AI behavior

#6 The Outer Worlds 2
4.0

Stealth was often viable and rewarding, especially with builds and gadgets, but some reviewers found it imbalanced or merely serviceable.

Pros: world-building, mission design

Cons: mission variety, enemy variety

#7 Ghost of Yōtei
3.9

Stealth is enjoyable and viable, especially with chain assassinations and tools, but several reviewers call it basic or largely unchanged.

Pros: movement feel, environmental detail

Cons: puzzle design, age appropriateness

#8 Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
3.1

Stealth was useful and sometimes satisfying, yet reviewers also called it finicky, weak, or frustrating in specific forced sections.

Pros: soundtrack quality, fun factor

Cons: checkpoint system, family friendliness

#9 Little Nightmares III
3.0

Stealth received split reactions: some reviewers enjoyed the scares and thrills, while others found trial-and-error stealth tiring.

Pros: load times, haptic feedback integration

Cons: save system reliability, aiming precision

#10 Pokémon Legends: Z-A
2.6

Stealth was divisive: some liked ambushes and surprise attacks, while others found the system unreliable, shallow, or lazy.

Pros: crash stability, gameplay mechanics

Cons: AI behavior, monetization fairness

#11 Atomfall
2.6

Stealth was repeatedly criticized as inconsistent, shallow, or unreliable, though a few reviewers found methodical sneaking viable on the right settings.

Pros: art direction, frame rate stability

Cons: boss design, camera behavior

#12 Goodnight Universe
2.5

Stealth/action sequences were a recurring weak spot, with instant-fail or active-control sections standing out as less enjoyable than the story-focused portions.

Pros: side character depth, visual effects quality

Cons: user interface design, handheld play suitability

#13 Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
2.2

Stealth was mostly a weak point: one reviewer liked a short sequence as variety, but others called later stealth awkward, padding-like, or simply not good.

Pros: character roster, animation quality

Cons: core gameplay loop, polish

#14 Battlefield 6
2.0

stealth sections in the campaign were criticized as overly constrained.

Pros: haptic feedback integration, performance optimization

Cons: pacing, microtransaction impact

#15 Avowed
1.4

Stealth was criticized as underdeveloped or nearly useless, with little support for stealth-focused play.

Pros: tutorial quality, level design

Cons: stealth mechanics, endgame content