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Games like Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

1990

This MSX2 classic by Hideo Kojima refined the stealth genre: Snake infiltrates an enemy fortress, exploiting guard vision, noise and gadgets, while following a surprisingly cinematic story for its era.

  • Sneaking and hiding
  • Pixel art
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Tactical depth

In short: Games like Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Second Sight

83 %Match

2004USK 16PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Steam Deck playable80 % positive9.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake: sneaking and hiding, a strong story as well as a sci-fi setting.

A stealth-action thriller in which you play amnesiac John Vattic and use psychic powers to slip through levels. The story alternates between past and present, gradually uncovering his dark history.

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Disjunction

Pixel art

An isometric cyberpunk stealth-action RPG set in a grim 2048 New York, where you play three intertwined characters unraveling a conspiracy. You can approach situations with sneaking, gadgets or gunfights.

Hitman: Contracts

Tactical depth

A feverish Agent 47 relives past hits across grim, rain-soaked levels where disguises, patience and creative kills beat brute force. Its oppressive atmosphere and Jesper Kyd score make it the bleakest entry in the series.

The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay

Sci-fi setting

An atmospheric first-person shooter blending stealth, brutal melee and gunplay as Riddick breaks out of the maximum-security prison Butcher Bay. Strong storytelling, cinematic presentation and a grim sci-fi setting set it apart.

Metrocide

Pixel art

A punishing top-down arcade stealth shooter set in a grim cyberpunk city, where you play a contract killer taking out targets while evading gangs, cops and patrol drones. One wrong move can be fatal.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials

Sci-fi setting

You slip through buildings as agent Sam Fisher, staying in the shadows and avoiding detection wherever possible. This PSP edition brings the series' signature tense stealth gameplay to a handheld.

Mission: Impossible

Challenging difficulty

A third-person spy game based on the 1996 film, mixing stealth, gadgets, disguises and gunplay across missions loosely following the movie plot. The PlayStation port adds voice acting.

Hitman: Codename 47

Challenging difficulty

Agent 47's debut: open-ended assassination contracts where disguises, planning and quiet execution matter more than firepower. Harsh, clunky and without mid-mission saves, it's a rough but influential stealth classic.

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin

Tactical depth

Agent 47 is pulled out of retirement and must plan silent hits across sprawling levels from Sicily to Japan, using disguises, poison, and patience to reach his targets. Missions offer many approaches but punish mistakes harshly, all backed by Jesper Kyd's sweeping score.

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