Dishonored. This word best describes Corvo Attano, the Empress’s loyal bodyguard, who was accused of her murder and treason. Corvo has no choice, he will have to take revenge and do everything to get Emily Coldwin, the rightful heiress, to the throne. The game takes place in the unsurpassed atmosphere of a city choking with the plague. Among the stunning mansions, reminiscent of the architecture of Europe in the 19th century, people languish and perish, and scurry hordes of rats. Patrols and mechanized guards walk through the streets, and the main emphasis is on covert passage. For lovers of stealth here is a real expanse.
If you liked the game and even managed to evaluate its second part, we offer you a list of 10 games similar to Dishonored.
10. Thief
Garrett is a professional thief. His art is on the verge of fantasy, he is agile and quick, like a shadow, and is able to get anything from anywhere. But the next task became unexpectedly difficult for him and his girlfriend Erin: they still could not get the Primali stone. Garrett will have to solve the riddle of the strange artifact and horror that is happening in the city.
Thief - This is not a continuation of the famous series, but its restart. The gameplay focuses on stealth and provides several ways to pass locations.
When creating the atmosphere, the artists were inspired by the Victorian era and steampunk, so local views will be a delight for fans of the genre.
9. Outlast
A psychiatric hospital is not the most joyful place, especially if terrible experiments were conducted on helpless patients. The game is similar to Dishonored partly in an eerie atmosphere, partly in stealth mode. The rest is an interesting, solid horror in the best traditions of the genre.
The protagonist of the game Outlast - Journalist Miles Absher, who receives a personal order to investigate terrible incidents at Mount Massiv Clinic. He cannot imagine what exactly he will encounter, having at his disposal only a flashlight and a camera. Perhaps it was worth grabbing a gun.
8. Dark Messiah Might & Magic
Saref, the protagonist of the game, is an ambitious young man who dreams of magical fame and honors. He has every chance, because his teacher is the magician Fenrig himself. Saref learns about the Skull of Shadows artifact, and his incredible adventures begin with this.
Dark Messiah Might & Magic - An action game from the first person in which rpg elements allow you to pump several branches of the hero's skills. A distinctive feature is the interactive environment: buildings and walls can be broken, torn down on the heads of enemies, kicking opponents, setting fire to them and much more.
The player has at his disposal a sword, shield and magic, as well as dark corners, in which, with the proper skill, you can hide and inflict death blows.
7. Binary Domain
While passing Binary domain players have to fight robots. It is proposed to manage the head of the Rusty Brigade, which was sent to convict the Japanese company of violating the convention on robotics.
Binary domain - This is a third-person shooter with RPG elements. An interesting detail of the gameplay is that the team reacts to the actions of its commander. Depending on the decisions they make, they will relate to him better or worse, and as a result, better or worse follow orders. Thus, the developers wanted to add an element of human drama to the gameplay.
6. BioShock
What to do if you have a lot of money and you are disappointed in humanity? Build your own “perfect” city. Under water. That's what the millionaire Andrew Ryan did. But something went wrong, and the underwater levels of Delight (that is what Ryan called his brainchild) turned into a container of desolation and horror.
Bioshock - A first-person shooter with RPG elements that allow you to pump weapons and abilities, choose different passages of some locations, and also decide the fate of individual NPCs.
The main character is named Jack, who was delighted as a result of a plane crash and is now forced to explore level after level, trying to get out.
5. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
The Deus Ex series of games has long won the sincere love of the players, and the new project, subtitled Mankind Divided (“Divided Humanity”) has also won their favor. This is the fourth franchise game, and Adam Jensen remains the main character.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - action rpg with stealth elements. A feature of the game is that the player himself chooses the style of passing. He can arm himself with any of the presented types of weapons (and improve it to his liking) and shoot all enemies. Can secretly neutrolize them, and can take advantage of diplomatic abilities and agree, never once using force. You can solve the problem non-violently even with bosses!
In accordance with the latest trends in the gaming industry, the chosen behavior model affects the course of the game and the ending, so you can go through it several times and check what and how will affect the plot.
4. Brink
In the center of the plot is the floating city of Ark (in the Russian adaptation - the Ark), which was originally created as an experimental settlement, but when the world's oceans covered almost the entire surface of the Earth, it became the only refuge of mankind. The divided islands developed rapidly, and are now on the brink of civil war.
Brink - This is a first-person shooter with the ability to develop character skills and passing some points on the stealth. Both single player and cooperative and multi-player modes are available for users. The project gathered conflicting reviews, but the setting was appreciated and definitely deserves attention.
3. Vampyr
The romance of vampire life does not let go of the minds of creators and is still popular. In 2018, Dontnod Entertainment released an action / RPG Vampyrby inviting players along with the main character to discover a couple of secrets of bloodsuckers.
Jonathan E. Reed is a talented and respected doctor in London, and part-time - a convert vampire. He does not know the rules of behavior, is obsessed with a thirst for blood and is studying his new condition from the point of view of a scientific approach.
The gameplay offers to track down the victims, study them and kill, as well as fight with the bosses. The social component plays a large role: you can communicate with most NPCs, establish connections, recognize them, and even control them using vampire abilities.
Critics note the unsurpassed eerie atmosphere of 20th century London and an interesting story, albeit with a certain number of inconsistencies.
2. Arx Fatalis
A game Arx fatalis released in 2002 and was the continuation of the legendary Ultima Underworld. Exosta is plunged into darkness and cold: its sun is gradually dying. Few people in the world inhabited by people, goblins, gnomes, female snakes and other fantastic creatures, a world where magic rules, guesses the connection of the catastrophe with the fall of a meteorite. The player will have to solve his secret and save the planet from death.
The gameplay can be called classic: four characteristics (strength, agility, intelligence and stamina), interesting magic based on runes, and a character leveling system. The developers also added a hunger system, and you will have to periodically feed the character. The bestiary has a couple of dozen creatures that are familiar to any gamer, but therefore no less deadly.
1. Prey
Not only fantasy settings can boast of quality gameplay and stealth. Prey - The shooter from the mastodons Bethesda Softworks was released in 2017, and the action takes place on the space station. The player will help Morgan Yu leave the space station captured by aliens.
The passage is non-linear, as you study the locations, new compartments and rooms open. The developers added RPG elements, allowing the hero to hide, look for weapons and resources, and the decisions made will affect the ending. There are several of them, depending on the player’s choice in a given situation, as well as on interactions with other characters.
There is even the opportunity to go into outer space to get to the inaccessible compartments of the station! Well, how can you resist and not try to play Prey yourself?