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Stealth video games

  • Assassin's CreedAssassin's Creed began as a game about a prince who wasn't a prince. In the early 2000s, Ubisoft Montreal set out to make a sequel to Prince of Persia: The…
  • Metal GearMetal Gear began not as a stealth game, but as a straightforward military action game. Hideo Kojima designed it for the MSX2 computer platform in 1987…
  • Metal Gear Solid (1998 video game)Konami released Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation in 1998. The game directed by Hideo Kojima required players to navigate a nuclear weapons facility…
  • Metal Gear Solid: Master CollectionKonami announced the first volume of Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection in May 2023. This announcement came during a PlayStation Showcase event, occurring…
  • Metal Gear Solid: The Twin SnakesMetal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes came together because of a chance meeting in a Nintendo cafeteria in Japan. Denis Dyack, CEO of Silicon Knights, had just…
  • Metal Gear (video game)Metal Gear arrived on the MSX2 home computer on the 13th of July, 1987, and almost nobody outside Japan noticed at first. It was a game about hiding.
  • The Elder Scrolls V: SkyrimThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim shipped seven million units in its first week of release, and within two years had crossed twenty million sold. That was 2011.
  • Stealth gameThe stealth game asks a simple question: what if you could win without ever being seen? In November 1979, a programmer named Hiroshi Suzuki published a…
  • Tom Clancy's Splinter CellTom Clancy's Splinter Cell arrived in 2002 with a premise that felt genuinely different: you were not meant to be seen. Where most action games rewarded…
  • Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom PainMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain arrived on the 1st of September 2015 and immediately broke records. On its opening day alone, the game grossed US$179…
  • Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of LibertyMetal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty reached North American shelves on the 13th of November 2001. Hyper Magazine had already named it the most anticipated…
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die TwiceSekiro: Shadows Die Twice arrived on the 22nd of March 2019 and drew over 108,000 simultaneous players on Steam within hours of launch.
  • Metal Gear 2: Solid SnakeMetal Gear 2: Solid Snake sat at the No. 1 spot on MSX Magazine's chart of Japan's 30 best-selling MSX games in October 1990.
  • Assassin's Creed ValhallaAssassin's Creed Valhalla sold more copies in its first week than any game in the franchise had ever managed. On the 17th of November 2020, one week after…