The immediate comparison that springs to mind when you load up Mike Bithell’s Volume is — if you had a good childhood — Metal Gear Solid: Special Missions. It has an aesthetic not a million miles away from Kojima’s weird side-content, though Volume has its fair share of original ideas to make it worthwhile. It’s been all quiet on the Syphon Filter front since then with its developer and originator, Bend, going on to produce portable Uncharted games and also Days Gone, which actually seems to be in the same universe. If you squint hard enough, Deacon actually even looks a little like Logan, too. It doesn’t hurt that it offers the best gameplay in the series, either. Hitman had always been somewhat clunky by nature, seemingly to dissuade mass murder sprees. 2016’s Hitman, however, introduces the smoothest action seen yet with competent AI and reactive scenarios to still bring the challenge, as well as a much appreciated level of detail with so many different events triggering at once. Bearing that in mind, the most efficient items to steal are gems and jewelry, as they're high in value but low in weight - which means a higher chance to steal, as weight determines difficulty. A PlayStation favourite that came out a time when Solid Snake had only just made his PS1 debut, Syphon Filter never reached the fanfare of Metal Gear Solid, but it certainly had plenty of fans all the same.

Definitely the smallest game on this list, Intravenous comes from an indie studio that wanted to deliver a hardcore stealth game with some immersive sim elements that really gets your creative murder cogs whirring. Not the original Hitman game, which is looking ropier with each passing year, but the episodic “reboot” of 2016.

While not necessarily an outright stealth game (hence why it’s so low despite being a phenomenal game), Sekiro’s handling of stealth means that unless you embrace it, you might be in for a bad time. In a game that throws tonnes of enemies at you at once and a giant monkey who refuses to die, you have to take any help you can damn well get.

For all his gadgets and bone-breaking, Batman is at his most effective when he’s stalking his foes from the shadows. From one Klei stealth game to another, Mark of the Ninja represents the absolute best in 2D side-scrolling stealth games. Playing as Jin Sakai, one of the last remaining samurai in his native land, you must repel Mongol invaders through whatever means necessary. Whether you want to fight with honor or not is up to you, but there’s something to be said for clearing out a camp full of foes without raising the alarm, your katana glinting as you dash from invader to invader. Speech is levelled by buying and selling items, and successfully using the Persuade, Indimidate, and Bribe dialogue options.Assassin’s Creed may continue to grow and expand with each new entry and become less and less about assassinating itself, but its second game represents the series at its purest. One method is to buy training from trainer-merchants, who also buy and sell goods, and who will then have far higher gold reserves for buying your more expensive items. Dishonored 2 is also one of those games that rewards experimentation and perfection, so take your time with it and you will take a lot away from it in turn.

Unwanted Food or Drink Products - Once supply conditions are broken, there are a number of factors outside of our control that can affect the quality of a product. Therefore perishable goods such as food and drink cannot be returned. Everytime I need to get closer to NPCs I have to use a stealth boy (I started farming them from legion rep). NPCs don't usually detect me at long range (sometimes) but if I get close (like 20 or 30 meters) it gets to caution and 1 second later to danger. For reasons of hygiene and safety, personal grooming products, cosmetics or items of intimate clothing cannot be returned. Meanwhile, I watch some videos of people just running circles around NPCs while the [hidden] indicator remains unchanged. How is this possible? You may baulk at the original game not getting a look-in as one of the best stealth games, and you’d probably be right to do so. It changed the face of gaming for the better by interspersing many different styles of gameplay into one cohesive experience, but it’s showing some signs of age. Mods may fix it, though Human Revolution is a more than decent alternative — I’d go so far as to suggest that it’s actually the better game.Billed as an action RPG, Human Revolution can be played as a straight run and gun, but where’s the fun in that? It’s at its best when you’re taking the constantly exasperated Adam Jensen around his dystopian surroundings and using his modifications to keep yourself in the shadows before eventually smashing through a wall to incapacitate someone while somehow not being detected. Anyone who knows stealth games could have predicted that Snake Eater would be sitting pretty on top of the pile. It’s a shame that its sequel, Mankind Divided, underperformed in so many areas, however, so much so that we may not see a new Deus Ex for quite some time. For one reason or another, Dishonored 2 didn’t sell like it should have, much like many of Bethesda’s single-player games of late. You want it, I want it, everyone wants it. The only problem with a new Splinter Cell game is that we’d have to buy it and, judging from the franchise’s most recent entries in terms of sales, it might be a risk that Ubisoft are averse to taking. If they were to make a new Splinter Cell game and have it be a success, all they need to do is look at Chaos Theory: the third entry in the series.