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1990PC91 % positive6.99 €

As super-spy Max Remington you chase terrorists and crime syndicates around the globe, gathering clues, tailing suspects and cracking codes and locks in short action and puzzle sequences. Its blend of investigation, stealth and minigames was quite unusual for 1990.

  • Sneaking and hiding
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Tactical depth
  • Challenging difficulty
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In short: Games like Sid Meier's Covert Action

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Sid Meier's Covert Action special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Legion Was Here

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2026PC95 % positive10.25 €

Brings what grabs you about Sid Meier's Covert Action: sneaking and hiding, puzzles to figure out as well as a pure single-player experience.

You play Legion, a secret agent who can change his appearance at will, investigating and infiltrating enemy ranks through disguise. It appears to mix puzzle and RPG elements, though the available information is sparse.

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Uplink

Puzzles and brain teasers

As a freelance hacker agent, you take shady corporate jobs through a simulated computer desktop, breaking into systems and covering your tracks. You spend your earnings on better hardware and software while the risk of getting caught keeps rising.

Shadows of Doubt

Puzzles and brain teasers

You play a private investigator in a fully simulated neo-noir 1980s city, solving procedurally generated murder cases by piecing together clues, fingerprints and witness statements yourself. The game never holds your hand, leaving deduction, break-ins and tailing suspects up to you.

Party Hard

Puzzles and brain teasers

You play a fed-up neighbor who sneaks into parties and quietly eliminates every guest by setting traps, dodging witnesses and outwitting the police. Pixel art and dark humor meet tricky stealth-puzzle levels.

Filcher

Pure single-player experience

As master thief Sporey, you sneak into guarded buildings in a first-person 2.5D stealth game. You rely on gadgets, observation and wits to rob the rich and corrupt.

Heat Signature

Puzzles and brain teasers

You dock a tiny pod onto enemy spaceships and infiltrate them with improvised plans to take out guards, steal loot, or hijack the whole vessel. It thrives on pausable top-down tactics and chaotic, emergent stories.

Picklock

Pure single-player experience

A small indie stealth game where you play the master thief Picklock, planning and carrying out burglaries in a quiet green town to earn a seaside vacation.

Yandere Simulator

Pure single-player experience

You play an obsessive schoolgirl who wants her crush all to herself and removes rivals through cunning, stealth and planning while keeping up an innocent facade. An experimental stealth sandbox in an anime school setting, still in development.

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