10 Best Stealth Video Game Missions (According To The Internet)

Score breakdown: 9 out of 16 critic list appearances. Best area decided by 5 out of 16 fan nominations (7 missions nominated).

Of all the games on this list Isolation bucks the trend by casting you as the prey rather than the predator. But, unlike regular NPC mooks you are no pushover.

Though the San Cristobal Medical Facility (defined as the area encompassing chapters 5 & 6) does not mark the first time players encounter the Alien, it is the first time that the creature is truly let off the leash.

Now, hospitals are plenty creepy as a rule – if you’re in one things have obviously gone badly – but in Isolation you’re sharing the space with an unkillable hyper-predator, creating a double-whammy of dread and foreboding.

But it has to find you first, and that is what that makes Isolation’s brand of stealth thrilling. It is an arena, where the Alien is stealthily trying to ambush you, and where you are stealthily trying to survive, a head-to-head duel between the one of the most sophisticated AI systems ever put into a video game, and the human mind.

It is a terrifyingly tense confrontation, one that punishes the slightest slip-up, but getting through, outsmarting a worthy opponent, is one of the most satisfying experiences ever crafted in a stealth game.