8 Stealth Video Games Where Stealth SUCKS
These stealth games absolutely whiffed their core mechanic.
Stealth games are one of the most popular of all video games genres, generally de-emphasising a Rambo-like commitment to murder in favour of sneaking around and carrying out indirect action to dispatch pesky enemies.
It’s definitely not a genre for everyone - and certainly not for the bloodthirstiest of gamers - but when it’s executed well (pun intended), stealth can be both gut-wrenchingly tense and tremendously rewarding. When a game forces you to really think about circumventing a tricky enemy, it can be a lot of fun for thoughtful players to figure the puzzle out.
But sometimes stealth games can scarcely even get the basics right, and no matter how good the rest of the game might actually be, the stealth itself absolutely stinks.
That’s sadly the case with these eight games, which whether otherwise rock-solid experiences or fiery train-wrecks in every fiber of their being, couldn’t even nail the fundamentals of a decent stealth game.
From wonky AI to atrocious level design, dated gameplay, time-wasting checkpointing, and everything else in between, these stealth games whiffed the very thing everyone was counting on them to nail above all else…
8. Five Nights At Freddy's: Security Breach
Five Nights At Freddy's: Security Breach is a survival horror stealth game in which players must attempt to survive overnight in a shopping mall while being doggedly pursued by - you guessed it! - murderous animatronics.
Though Security Breach enticingly introduces free-roam gameplay to the series for the first time, the emphasis on performing tedious busy-work while attempting to avoid assailants who have the tendency to unfairly teleport to your position makes it more an exercise in self-abuse than anything.
Add to this a litany of bugs which will hamper both your and the AI's efforts to do their respective jobs, and also confusing-to-a-fault level design, and Security Breach is a dispiritingly inconsistent experience from start to finish - though you'll probably tire of it long before it's over.
Even accepting that this game was produced for a considerably lower budget than most if not all the other games on this list, it whiffs the most basic fundamentals of what a stealth game should be.