10 Video Games You Can Finish Without Killing A Single Enemy

Ninjas are associated with espionage and sneakiness, so it makes sense that Mark Of The Ninja allowed players to run through the entire game without directly killing any enemies. The developers prided themselves on offering a true-to-life ninja experience in a cool cartoonish style, and they wanted to make sure that players could choose to be as subtle, sneaky, and non-violent as possible.

You could decide to run through the game using lethal throwing knives and even flesh-eating insects to defeat the enemies in your way, but it was much more fun to use the tools and abilities provided to navigate from one shadow to the next like a ghost, passing through entire sections undetected and fooling enemies with your ninja skills.

The game featured a host of distraction tools like flares, firecrackers and smoke bombs, which players could use intelligently to make their way through levels without alerting or harming enemy soldiers, and it was often highly satisfying to figure out the perfect pacifist way to run through each level.