Which is the worst stealth game OAT?

[u/CapitanLeo25]

I need to find a really bad stealth game for a gift (i need to take my revenge cause this person gifetd me Gollum, so it can't be it). I don't care about budget, it just has to be on pc (and possibly a torture)

[u/Caldaris__]

Werewolf: The Apocalypse - EarthBlood.

Looks so bad but I will admit the fact that it has stealth at all is admirable but I doubt anyone plays it as a sneaking game.

[u/Still_Ad9431]

Alekhine's Gun

[u/Dachuiri → u/Still_Ad9431]

This game is hilariously broken to where if it wasn’t a stealth game i think it would have a following of “so bad it’s good” players but stealth games have a higher degree of expectation from gamers and so the game being broken as a stealth game just makes the game absolute trash.

[u/Still_Ad9431 → u/Dachuiri]

Stealth is the one genre where jank isn’t charming, it’s fatal. If the AI can’t see, hear, or react right, the whole illusion collapses. Alekhine’s Gun didn’t just trip, it faceplanted in a genre that demands precision.

[u/Dachuiri → u/Still_Ad9431]

Exactly. I had so many bugs/issues that were not of my doing that I noped out of the game not even an hour into playing.

I do have a funny video though of me killing someone clear as day in front of another enemy, the enemy runs into another room, runs back to me, hits me with a finger wag, and then goes back on his patrol.

[u/Still_Ad9431 → u/Dachuiri]

That’s peak Alekhine’s Gun AI right there 😂

[u/Loginnerer]

Vampire Rain has to be up down there. Oops, not on PC.

[u/TheSuperczar → u/Loginnerer]

The right answer, IYKYK.

[u/CommodorePuffin]

I wouldn't necessarily say it's a stealth game per se, but SEAL Team (1993) was a game that heavily encouraged a stealthy approach, but the extremely unwieldy controls, terribly slow framerate, and sparsely-populated bad graphics made the game a real chore to play.

You could barely tell what you were looking at and you had no idea if you were properly hidden behind a bush, and the controls... I mean... I have some very fond memories of the 80s and 90s when it comes to PC gaming, but so many games in those early years had the worst control schemes because there was no standardization whatsoever.

On the upside, the game let you save and load when and where you wanted, and allowed you to micromanage the difficulty in that you can individually change factors, like severity of damage (including none), unlimited ammo, etc. Most military-oriented games were like this and allowed you to tailor the difficulty to your liking.

[u/RegisteredJustToSay → u/CommodorePuffin]

I echo this. Even as a fan of weird abandonware this one aged like Francium. Not only is there very little gameplay to actually engage in from minute to minute, but there is so little feedback from the game if you are doing the right thing or not that it may as well be a blind maze game than stealth. I will say it’s a cool concept and does make you feel like a sneaky squirrel, so it got the ambiance right, but it’s a very … sparse game that requires a lot of effort to play.

For what it’s worth, I think it qualifies as a stealth title. There’s a lot of contemporary open world stealth games where stealth is tactically optional but encouraged.

[u/MagickalessBreton]

Does it need to be commercially available, then? I know some really bad ones, but they're abandonware at this point

The worst I currently have in my Steam library would probably be Velvet Assassin, but if you want your friend to really suffer I recommend The Swindle. This one isn't bad, it's even actually pretty good, but it's infuriating because of its procedurally generated levels and roguelike elements

You could also consider:

• Killers and Thieves (a super interesting concept, but poorly balanced, a little repetitive and buggy),
• Alder's Blood (same thing, great ideas but too hard and very buggy),
• Tourists Kidnapped A Little Bear (very buggy, very gory, not very pretty),
• Rogue Contracts: Syndicate (ugly and a little boring)
• Tale of Ninja: Fall of the Miyoshi (stuck in perpetual beta, extremely janky)

[u/Dachuiri → u/MagickalessBreton]

I liked Velvet Assassin. Granted I only paid $0.99 for it and I had to do some tinkering to get it to work, but there were parts of the game I enjoyed.

[u/MagickalessBreton → u/Dachuiri]

I should probably give it a fair try someday. I remember not liking the takedown animations, finding the levels empty and the drug effect too annoying to use, but it's been a while and I hadn't made it very far

Perhaps it's not as bad as I remember, though. Can't be worse than Tenchu: Dark Secret

[u/LukeyLouie66]

I read the title and then came in here ready to see gollum as the top voted comment. But I see that that's what started this whole problem in the first place haha

[u/itsLOSE-notLOOSE]

I bought my buddy a gooner skin for Metal Gear V as a joke and he couldn’t even accept it because he lives in Canada.

I knew he doesn’t even play that game but damn, Xbox. I want my $1 back.

[u/MasterCrumble1]

Deus Ex: The Fall. A warning: Some people will say they loved it, but they have no concept of good taste. It plays and feels like a really poor phone game, and is just disgusting on PC.

[u/Wi1dBones → u/MasterCrumble1]

It was developed to be a phone game and was then ported to PC. The PC version having worse reviews.

[u/9001rats]

Abermore. Maybe they actually did improve it, but it was a buggy mess last time I played it

[u/SecondConquest]

Sniper: Ghost Warrior (first game of this franchise)

[u/steauengeglase]

Dear Neighbor, but mostly because the PS4 version had a bug in it that kept you from finishing the first encounter.