PPG Game Of The Year 2024 - 03 - The Best Real Time Tactical / Stealth Games

Though the niche genre here has been slowly contracting (RIP mimimi, you deserved better) the indie space is where you still find excellent games to match the form. A small but strong showing you'll find below.

Red Glare
WW2 CIA Shadow Tactics
Take your small collection of soldiers and tactically work your way through a number of scenarios with some great ImSim-y detail, such as enemies noticing blood trails from dragged away bodies.

Raw Metal
Stealth Melee Fighter
Infiltrate a mining facility and give the middle finger to corporations while using cool gadgets and obtaining upgrades along the way.

Under A Star Long Cold
Stealth Score Based
Neat premise where you have only 30 minutes to get in, do what you came to do and get out. It's like a single level from a larger game, available as a standalone at a nice and cheap price.

EVOTINCTION
Hacky Sneaky SciFi
Great blend of stealth focused gameplay with a mixture of different hacking techniques. A decent dystopian SciFi story about robotics and human extinction rounds it all out.

63 Days
WWII Stealth Tactics
A sombre struggle set in Warsaw 1944. Evokes Commandos for those that loved that series in it's day.

And The Best Real Time Tactics / Stealth Game of 2024 Is…

Sumerian Six
Stealth Kill Nazis
Very much in the Mimimi style of tactical stealth games with the setting being similar to Wolfenstein's alt-history WWII, where experimental technology makes the difference in defeating the nazis. A well polished experience with a great ragtag squad to command who play off of each other in mechanically satisfying ways.