Over these years, the stealth genre has skyrocketed to the apex in the gaming industry. Offering players an immersive playstyle, millions of killing opportunities, and a free-roam open-world sandbox. The iconic Hitman franchise has emerged as the epitome of stealth games out there.
Whether you are a casual or an avid gamer, Hitman is a medicine everyone in the gaming industry has experienced at some point.
After the series completion, the craving for more killing goes berserk! That’s the sorcery, Hitman lovers live for. But in 2026, Agent 47 doesn’t have to be your only Bucket List.
In a world of pitch-perfect chaos and covert eliminations, here are some games that will let you stalk the target in a crowded venue just like Agent 47.
1. Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon : Breakpoint
Released on October 4, 2019, and developed by Ubisoft, Breakpoint is a massive open-world tactical shooter game that tests your grit and patience.
Purely focused on the stealth mechanism, you play as Nomad (the protagonist), who targets and kills his enemies with ease.
Set on a hostile island of Auroa, the game lets you delve deep into stealth via camouflage, prone mechanics, and a plethora of muffled firearms at your disposal.
Played slowly, like a fine aged wine, Breakpoint lets you experience the same adrenaline-pump felt by MARCOS.
Heavily shifted towards military realism and infiltration, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Breakpoint is your go-to if you love to unravel terror syndicates and their evil schemes against your country.
2. Metal Gear Solid : Snake Eater
Similar to Breakpoint and considered as an alternative to the Hitman series, Metal Gear Solid Δ is a repaint of the iconic MGS 3: Snake Eater (which was released in 2004).
Released on August 28, 2025, and developed by Konami Studios, Metal Gear Δ stands tall above all in the stealth genre.
Heavily focused on stealth, there’s no room for mistakes. You play as Jack (also known as Naked Snake), who works for the CIA’s FOX unit and delves deeper into the nuclear facility of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, 1964. By far, one of the most bone-chilling stealth games you can vouch for.
Although MGS Delta is not a replica of the Hitman series, players can experience boss-level infiltrations and rescue missions that test all their strength and survival skills through dense jungles and mountains.
Likewise, players are rewarded with an inventory full of weapons like the suppressed M1911A1, MK22, and explosives like Claymore.
3. Dishonored Franchise
Mentioning the Dishonored Franchise in 2026 is like resurrecting the golden era of gaming back to the modern age. Developed by Arcane Studios, iconic games like Dishonored 1, Dishonored 2, Death of the Outsider, and Deathloop have delivered stellar performance throughout the decade.
The Dishonored franchise is a blend of supernatural powers, stealth, with aesthetics of steampunk, and choices that toll an effect on the endgame.
This four-leaf clover may not be an exact copy of the Hitman series, but it has an amazing fanbase around the globe due to its immersive world-building and stealth-focused assassinations.
Set in the Empire of Isles, players unravel dark secrets and evil plots as Corvo Attano, Emily Kaldwin, and Billie Lurk. Narrative revolving around vengeance, assassinations, and political betrayals, the game offers a bloodbath in chaos!
If you still haven’t immersed yourself in such a unique game charged with an amazing morality system, you surely are missing out on one of the best games from the seventh generation.
4. Sniper Elite Resistance
Want to follow a lone wolf’s path just like Agent 47, but in an utterly chaotic world jammed with war. Then my friend, Sniper Elite Resistance is your go-to.
As the name suggests, Sniper Elite Resistance, developed by Rebellion Developments and released on January 30, 2025, has some of the most remarkable plot twists. From Fascist Italy to Nazi-occupied France. Players will experience espionage through WWII and Guerrilla warfare, a parallel storyline to Sniper Elite V.
Leaning more towards a fantasy world, the game pivots on stealth combat, infiltration through enemy bases, and recovering S-tier intel that could save your country from further exploitation.
Being on a lone operative mission, Harry Hawker, a British Special Operations Executive, marks his journey towards Nazi-occupied France in 1944, to unravel secrets regarding the wonderweapon project.
Unlike Hitman, this game offers a vast free-roam approachability, which helps a player gather intel on enemy targets, set traps, and find hidden spots for distant kills. Rather than disguising and vandalizing secret organizations, Sniper Elite: Resistance focuses on tactical stealth and precise shooting.
Honorable Mention - Ghost of Yotei : A Samurai Who Lurks in the Shadow
A golden rule of stealth: You either go Kratos or Agent 47. Ghost of Yotei is such a game that uses this rule of stealth combat.
Set in the Edo period Hokkaido, Japan in 1603, this sequel to the legendary Ghost of Tsushima depicts a storyline revolving around a mercenary warrior known as Atsu, who’s on a journey of vengeance against Yotei Six, a group that mercilessly killed her family.
Although Ghost of Yotei is the polar opposite of the Hitman series, the game bizarrely follows the samurai code with a stealth mechanism.
In here, you either go slow, infiltrate, and kill enemies in a ninja way, or you ravage through the barricades and slaughter your arch nemesis!
With newly added firearms like the Tanegashima (Matchlock Rifle) and Tanzutsu (Flintlock Pistol), experience melee combat as a stealth lover to complete your vengeance.
Though it lacks modern age disguise, as a ghost, you’ll get to observe enemy patrols, strike from the shadows, and vanish without getting tracked while manipulating yourself with terrains.