Stealth games are awesome. Hiding from The Man, skulking in shadows, the thrill of the unseen infiltration. But why do they have to be so... slow?
Introducing Stealth Bastard: stealth, with a great big kick up the arse. A fast-paced, frenetic, one-step-away-from-chunky-death melange of sneaking, platforming, hacking and cursing. A whole lot of fun. It's like Metal Gear Solid and Super Meat Boy had a baby out of wedlock. Semi-literally.
Jump, sneak, and be horribly dismembered through 28 levels hand-crafted by our crack team of in-house design geniuses, some of the same folk behind the critically-acclaimed Fluidity/Hydroventure, and the retro-styled PSN platformer Explodemon!.
And once you're done with those? Fear not - Stealth Bastard includes a FULL in-game level editor - the same we used to create the bundled levels - and even allows you to share, play and rate the community's creations from across the world.
And if you thought that was cool, we've not even got to the best bit yet: Stealth Bastard is free. Not 'freemium'. Completely free.
Endless fun. Zero cost. What are you waiting for?
- Hide in the shadows with a real-time shadowing system!
- Evade a wide range of eagle-eyed lethal robotic foes!
- Hack your way to the exit... and to the next challenge!
- Squeeze through doorways mere seconds before you're sliced into pieces!
- Die in a variety of gruesome, cruel ways!
- Create your own fiendish deathrooms and share them with the world - all in the game!
- Shave seconds off your playtimes and rule the global leaderboards!
"Okay, I admit it. I got into this entirely because I wanted to say "Tactical Espionage Arsehole" in a news post. But the truth is that Stealth Bastard is actually a solid little platformer with a sneaky twist: stay out of sight or get chunked."
- The Escapist
"Stealth Bastard is a shockingly robust package for the low price of zero dollars."
- AnandTech
"Sam Fisher, meet your match."
- CNET
"It has a fine name indeed... Bits of Portal, bits of Super Meat Boy, bits of Splinter Cell, yet a tone and character entirely of its own, and with none of all that tedious waiting around business."
- Rock, Paper, Shotgun
"Not all good games have to be paid for. Take Stealth Bastard for example, a free PC game that's about light, dark, stealth and blood... for $0.00 it's a pretty sweet deal."
- Kotaku
"It's funny, it's immensely challenging and, yes, it's free. Engaging concept... a gem."
- The Guardian
"Stealth Bastard is awesome... There're three main problems with stealth games that we can't quite get around... Stealth Bastard elegantly solves all of these problems."
- FHM Magazine
"In a world where people try to charge more for virtual hats than real hats, Stealth Bastard is something of an anomaly. The best kind of anomaly, that is. It's a fully featured stealth platformer... and it's completely free. Seriously! And if that's not enough (you greedy jerk), there's also a level editor, leaderboards, a rating system – everything, in other words, short of your wildest dreams and a pony."
- PCGamer
CPU: Dual Core 2.0Ghz
System Memory: 1Gb or greater of RAM
Video RAM: 256Mb or more VRAM
GFX Card: DirectX 8.0 compatible
OS Support: Windows XP SP2 or better, Vista, Win7
Input: Keyboard / Mouse, Xinput supported controllers (i.e. Xbox controllers for Windows)