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I finished 007 First Light in one long weekend and then sat there scrolling my library like an idiot, because nothing else in it scratches the same itch. IO Interactive's Bond landed on May 27, 2026, moved 1.5 million copies on day one, sits at an 87 average with critics and runs about 20 hours. A sequel is coming eventually. Eventually is not this year, so here are eight games built on the same three moves: borrow a uniform, use the gadget, improvise when the camera spots you anyway. Updated August 2026.
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HITMAN World of Assassination
I reinstalled this one the same night the credits rolled, which tells you how closely related they are. HITMAN World of Assassination comes from the same studio and packs the whole modern trilogy into one purchase, 20-plus locations from Sapienza to Dubai, each a clockwork puzzle of guard rotations and borrowed jackets. Freelancer is the mode that keeps me coming back, a free campaign against four criminal syndicates where dying strips your entire loadout. Guest contracts rotate too, with Milla Jovovich and Bruce Lee both showing up in 2026.
METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
No stealth game has ever felt better in the hands. METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN came out in 2015 and never once tells you how to crack an outpost. Tranquilise a guard, strap a balloon to him, watch him float off to your own base where he eventually works for you. Bring a dog that tags patrols, or a sniper who covers the retreat. Forty hours, and yes, the back half recycles missions.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Blacklist
This is the one I keep reinstalling every couple of years. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Blacklist shipped in 2013 with a proper two-player mission set that isn't recycled campaign filler, plus four spies in third person against four mercs in first person, a multiplayer idea nobody has managed to rebuild since. The 12-hour campaign scores ghosting, silent kills and going loud as three separate tallies. Sam Fisher is grumpy and sixty, Bond is 26, otherwise it's the same job.
UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection
The jeep chase through the mud in Madagascar is still better directed than most of what the action genre put in cinemas last decade. It sits in Uncharted 4, which the UNCHARTED: Legacy of Thieves Collection bundles with The Lost Legacy, remastered, roughly 15 hours and 7 hours respectively. There's no real stealth system here, just climbing, shooting and people cracking jokes as the floor gives way. The original multiplayer didn't make the cut. On PC since October 2022.
Batman: Arkham Knight
Nobody has ever made a utility belt feel this good. Batman: Arkham Knight, from 2015, drops eight armed guys into a dark room and lets you take them apart one at a time from the gargoyles, which is the exact fantasy First Light sells in its best missions. Sixteen hours for the main story, roughly double that if Gotham gets cleaned out properly. People still argue about the Batmobile a decade later. Nobody argues about the stealth rooms.
Watch Dogs 2
The first time I emptied a building without walking into it, I laughed out loud. Watch Dogs 2 turns a phone into a skeleton key across a very sunny San Francisco, where Marcus and his hacker collective take cameras, cranes and cars off people who deserve it. An RC car and a drone scout ahead, so you often never show up in person. Around 20 hours, finishable without killing anyone. Friends can drop into your world, and so can strangers, though those come to rob you.
METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: SNAKE EATER
Twenty years on, that ending still hits harder than anything a Bond script has managed. METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: SNAKE EATER arrived on August 28, 2025 as a remake of the 2004 original and refuses to sand down a single quirk: swap camo to match the foliage, patch wounds one at a time, hunt your own dinner in a Soviet jungle in 1964. Fifteen hours, and an order to kill the woman who trained you. A free 12-player online mode landed on October 30, 2025.
Alpha Protocol
The most Bond thing on this list isn't a stealth game at all. Alpha Protocol is a 2010 role-playing game from Obsidian, the studio behind Fallout: New Vegas, and it runs every conversation on a timer where you pick a tone rather than a line. Lie to the right person and he's an ally 15 hours later. Lie to the wrong one and he's a corpse. The shooting has aged horribly, the writing hasn't aged at all. It vanished from stores in 2019 over expired music rights and came back on GOG in March 2024.
Eight is where we stopped writing, not where the list ends. Dig through the full set of games similar to 007 First Light in our catalogue, and if we missed the obvious one, drop it in the comments.
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