8 Stealth Video Games Where Stealth SUCKS

5. Agony

2018's survival horror game Agony certainly touts an attention-grabbing art style, yet its aesthetic polish ultimately belies how sawdust-dry and maddeningly unforgiving its central stealth mechanics are.

The protagonist is a lost soul attempting to escape from Hell, with gameplay largely boiling down to solving puzzles and avoiding demons. 

The big problem? Evading the demons is a literally agonising exercise in trial-and-error, whereby a single wrong move can see you thrown back 15 or 20 minutes to the nearest sparsely populated checkpoint. There's challenge, and then there's mundane busy-work blatantly intended to pad out a game's playtime.

The repetition becomes so oppressive in fact that the otherwise gorgeously rendered environments quickly blur together into a messy sludge. 

For players who have any respect whatsoever for their own time - and you absolutely should - Agony is a trash-tier stealth experience.