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

Score breakdown: 9 appearances in 16 critic lists and 11 appearances in 6 fan lists. Best mission decided by fan poll, winning by 64.4% out of 10 missions nominated.

Ask any Dishonoured player what their favourite mission is and the vast majority, as can be plainly seen, will say Lady Boyle’s Last Party.

It’s easy to see why. You are a masked assassin, tasked to infiltrate a masquerade ball in order to eliminate the eponymous Lady Boyle. It is the simplest set-up in the world, yet utterly, fiendishly brilliant. You are a wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing let loose among the sheep, hiding in plain sight while you stalk your victim, waiting for the right moment to strike.

You are, however, made to work for that kill. There is only one Lady Boyle, but she is one of three women wearing the same outfit. So begins a search for clues to determine which is which, and the best way to swiftly – and quietly – end her. And the hunt is set within some of the most opulent, garishly beautiful, and intricately designed, halls you will ever see.

It is a unique twist on the stealth formula, a marriage of enticing set-up and entertaining detective story that earns the top spot in a genre-defining title already chock full of outstanding examples.