History
A History of Stealth Games: From Castle Wolfenstein to Hitman
How stealth games evolved: early experiments like Castle Wolfenstein, Metal Gear in 1987, the 1998 breakthrough year, and the rise of sandbox stealth.
How stealth games evolved: early experiments like Castle Wolfenstein, Metal Gear in 1987, the 1998 breakthrough year, and the rise of sandbox stealth.
Stealth games reward avoiding detection over brute force. Here is how the genre works, its core goals and fail states, and the main subgenres.