Stealth Video Games Bucket List

Back to Baghdad in 861 and to the shape of the first game: one city, social stealth, no map full of icons.

The North Atlantic from the other side: a Templar hunting the assassins he used to work for.

Sam Fisher in Indonesia and Paris, and the asymmetric spies-versus-mercenaries multiplayer nothing has matched since.

Mark and execute, interrogations in real rooms, and objectives projected onto the walls.

A wounded 47 remembering earlier jobs in a Paris hotel room; the darkest the series has been.

The story-led one: 47 on the run protecting a girl, with checkpoint levels instead of open sandboxes.

Fisher undercover inside a terrorist cell, with a trust meter that makes every mission two missions.

Ezio in Constantinople as an old man, closing his own story and finally Altair.

Garrett takes a third job, and walks into the Shalebridge Cradle, the most frightening level ever built.

Costa Rica in 1974, a mother base to staff by kidnapping soldiers, and bosses built for two players.

47 leaves the asylum for Hong Kong and Budapest, with no saves and a garrotte; the series working itself out.

The last Splinter Cell, and the one that let you play it loud.

Billie Lurk goes after a god; the standalone finale.

Three games merged into one: Paris, Sapienza, Mumbai, Dubai and a hundred ways in.

Sam Fisher in 2002, with light and shadow as the whole mechanic.

Garrett against a mechanist cult; more thieving, less undead.

Victorian London, a grappling hook and twins who share the story.

Altair in the Third Crusade; the first Animus, and nine identical viewpoints.

The rating that made people replay a level twenty times to earn it.

Aiden Pearce hacks a Chicago that runs on one operating system.

Revolutionary Paris rendered building by building, once the patches landed.

Connor in the American Revolution, with naval battles and a rope dart.

Be a horrible goose in an English village; House House's to-do list of mischief.

Indy in 1937 between Raiders and Last Crusade, in first person; MachineGames.

Hack San Francisco with DedSec; the sequel that found the fun.

Two siblings in plague-era France pursued by the Inquisition and rats; Asobo's stealth.