Mafia 3 - looking for games with similar "stealth" system and objective - take everybody out

i know game stealth Sekiro shadows die twice and tenchu but not know if good for you (>''<)

I would say Bioshock 1 and 2 was like that for me :P

Alpha Protocol is also like that.

Sniper Elite 1, 2, 3, 4 - you have to do an objective after objective but nothing is stopping you from snipping/backstabbing/mine/granadetrap everyone like I did :)

Does not perfectly fit, but I feel recommending it nonetheless:
Mark of the ninja
oh, it's 2D, don't know if this is a problem..

Edit: it's been a while since i played it, so I'm not sure about the remain unseen part. I think they can spot you but more enemies arrives and you have run, cause hiding in a close place usually do not work.. at least, that's how I remember

Last two Splinter Cells (Conviction, Blacklist) should be okay and of course Deux Ex games. If you aren't alergic to retro you can play the first one (it's fantastic), but you can also start with Human Revolution and later Mankind Divided.

I was going to recommend the Batman Arkham series but I see that you've already played them. I've only played one Splinter Cell game but I clearly remember that I purposefully took out every enemy whenever I could and the game never complained about it.
Definitely don't go into Mark of the Ninja expecting to kill all enemies, the game is constructed around the idea of not being seen, even a dog can take you down and the game rewards you for not killing enemies whenever possible.

Max Payne 3 from what I remember

• Shadow Tactics
• Dishonored
• Invisible Inc.
• Party Hard
• Deadbolt
• Heat Signature (it's reaaaaally good)
• Ronin (I think, can't remember)
• Aragami
• Crookz The Big Heist (I'm not really sure, haven't finished the first mission)
• Seven: Enhanced Edition (it's your choice to kill everyone)
• Acid Spy

Those are the ones I have. Splinter Cell Conviction and Blacklist are what you're looking for, also Sniper Elite franchise.

Edit: Forgot to add Hotline Miami 1 and 2.

I have no idea how people did not yet mention FarCry 3-5.
I play that game exactly how you described above. You can choose between remote/silent kill, artistic-technical-stealth kill from close distance or pulling heavy gun/flamethrower in the enemy's face.

I play it for the stealth part. The AI is as dump as you hope. And i ALWAYS kill every enemy if that doesn't break the story.
It's also very great looking game and in 4 and 5 you can so easily hate the enemy bosses. Great atmosphere too.

Hope it helps, take care!

Deus Ex and Dishonered. You don't need but you can kill/knock out everybody (innocents too).

What you describe is how I played Dishonored. I know you're supposed to be stealthy, but there is no punishment for not being stealthy.
Styx games also allow the same.
I tend to play stealth games the same way you do. That being said, I also really liked Mark of the Ninja, though it doesn't exactly fit.

Curious about why you found Dishonored to be a bad match for you within that type of gameplay. Maybe because it doesn't have third-person view?

I think you would like Horizon zero dawn and middle earth: shadow of war.
They're probably the closest games to what you are describing.
If ghost of tsushima ever comes to pc, you should get that one too.
I would also suggest to look into metal gear solid V: the phantom pain and watch dogs 2.
I'm not sure if you would like those since they are a bit more stealth focused but it's worth a try.

I would say Deus Ex as that has options to go in stealthy.

I played Cyberpunk 2077 a bit (a bad RPG but a good futuristic GTA in my humble opinion), you may enjoy playing it stealthly as I did.Hide somewhere, hack cameras, hack bad guys brains to death one by one, while they search for you in vain :)
I'm also doing the same with Watchdogs : Legion and it works well: hack cameras, activate traps (exploding devices), then send your arachnobot to stealthly eliminate the remaining dudes one by one. If they see your bot, they will try to destroy it, but if they succeed you will be able to spawn another one after a short time (around one minute).
And I don't remember any snake in these games :)

I've heard to that style referred to as 'predator' stealth, since the goal is to pick off enemies one by one and slowly press your advantage on weak points in the enemy formation
Some games that usually get defined in the genre or have it as an option:

• Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
• Batman Arkham series
• Mark of the Ninja/Aragami (Aragami is basically just MotN but 3D and kinda worse)
• Styx series
• Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor
• Dark Messiah of Might & Magic but it's the worst of the three playstyles
• Alien vs Predator games
• Tenchu
• Metal Gear Solid
• Crysis
• Gunpoint
• Shadwen

Haven't played a good chunk of these so can't be sure about all your requirements, but this should give you a good jumping point

Thief: Deadly Shadows

Edit: I should have said all Thief games, but I played Deadly Shadows 1st then the newer ones.

Hmm, I'm not sure if it fits or not, but Saboteur comes to mind? It is solid, with a great soundtrack, but don't get the ubisoft or origin version. The ubisoft or origin version crashed constantly for me. The GOG version was stable. (The reason i am unsure if it fits your criteria is that mostly the enemies ignore you if you get outside of the red circle.)

Thief series?

EYE: Divine Cybermancy is kinda like Deus Ex, so maybe that too.

I havent played much but i think you might like the Styx series

actually the tomb raider reboot series also has similar elements, at least some levels play like this.

I have Mafia series on my wishlist but I never knew it had this kind of predator stealth, really good to know .. any idea if 1&2 also have this kind of stealth ?

you probably will enjoy Splinter Cell Conviction (my #1 favorite game of all time, "Deniable Ops - Hunter mode" is so addictive for me) and Splinter Cell Blacklist too

These all more of notes than recommendations:

Ubisoft despite the lack of creativity, their games have enjoyable stealth gameplay:
-SC Conviction has excellent map designs: holster your weapons and take everyone hand to hand bad ass takedowns, SC Blacklist follows the same formula to a great degree

• Ghost Recon Wildlands & Breakpoint also very satisfying stealth (both ghost/ninja kind of stealth and predator kind of stealth) but the design of the maps (open world, majorly outdoors) I find myself clearing camps mostly with headshots from low mid range

• Assassin's Creed you have already experienced them, also open world mostly outdoors because the focus is melee weapons the stealth mainly is close-quarter takedowns

• Watch Dogs series (Legion just had a free weekend I had a blast in it) open world maps but the stealth encounters mostly happen inside buildings or narrow areas that encourage close-quarter takedowns and the hacks are VERY useful to distract or lure the enemies.

All those are 3rd person view and cover system

Outside of Ubi:

-Dishonored series is a 1st person view which makes it not top of the list personally, but Deus ex (Human Revolution & Mankind Divided I never played the older games) -though it is also in 1st person view- when you take a cover or make a close-quarter takedown it switches to 3rd person view and for that I find Deus Ex more enjoyably than Dishonored
Both series can be done in ghost stealth or predator stealth and you can be detected and have to do loud fights or lose the scent and go back to stealth but their stories have consequences for being bloody or not.
Also more importantly the goal for both series is not to take everyone out, it is an option.

Batman Arkham you already know

Styx .. well I played both games on hardest difficulty, so detection is not an option on that difficulty .. a guard will grab you and kill you like you are a small light sack of potatoes
Also the ghost stealth (iirc) is more rewarding (especially if you want to max your gear) but then you can replay it in predator stealth.

Shadow/War of Mordor are Batman ArkhamXAssassin's Creed good predator stealth but combat is also essential.

Shadwen can be done in either ghost stealth or predator stealth (and it has a time rewind mechanism) .. however detection is not an option you will have to rewind

Mark of the ninja and Aragami are more into ghost stealth than predator stealth (more rewarding)

I read Max Payne 3 somewhere, that series is 3rd person shooter no freaking stealth there.

MGSV you can be detected most of the time and you can predator stealth too but ghost stealth is more rewarding, this has the flavor of legacy splinter cell games

Well, when it comes to stealth every single game from Splinter Cell series (btw even older ones still look nice, they aged really well).
Metal Gear Solid also when it comes to stealth, though if you are not into ghost army and snakes or find it scary then its not for you.
Assassins Creed games up to Syndicate, but since last three are mainly RPG, they dont rely that much on stealth, you can do a lot of missions using stealth, but yeah I have read that snakes might be an issue so Origins and Odyssey are a no go either way, Valhalla doesnt have snakes, at least I havent encountered any so far in 20+ hours played.

As for Action-Adventure type of games like Mafia 3 kill everyone either by stealth or be stealthy up to some point, I could recommend few games, Mafia: Definitive Edition, pretty much like Mafia 3, but with way way more better story and characters, Ghost Recon games (you can do almost anything using stealth and kill everyone in the process if you wish to), Rise of the Tomb Raider and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Cyberpunk 2077, also Thief series (there is a lot of stealth, and actually a lot of fun).

Honorable mentions:

I would highly recommend Red Dead Redemption 2 (Its just a perfect game honestly, in every way, though there are snakes in it, BUT its a really rare occasion to spot one, and even if you are near one, chances are you arent gonna actually see it, it will only spook your horse and disappear.)
Far Cry games (but there are snakes in them, and they attack you, so I guess its a huge no)
Dishonored series

Shadow Tactics Blades of the Shogun
Thief

Both great games that should have what you want.

Every single UbiSoft fuckaroundery sandbox ever made since Far Cry 3 (so Far Cry, Watch_Dogs, everything with Tom Clancy in the name, especially the Ghost Recon series, except Wildlands which is total garbage and will never be more than total garbage), and all Assassin Creed main series games from AC2. Mafia 3 was barely more than a barely reskinned AC Unity in the first place…

If you mean the stealth aspect, then also Splinter Cell games, most Hitman games, Dishonored games, Deus Ex games, and all Thief games except Thief 4 (which does not exist anyway, so no reason to look for it).
If you like Deus Ex and Dishonored, you can also try immersive sims like the System Shock series, the 2016 Prey, and maybe even the first BioShock (which was System Shock 2: Toddler who Read One Sci-Fi Encyclopedia Edition).
You can also dabble the thought of playing ALpha Protocol, assuming you are okay using a controller since the keyboard controls make it almost literally unfinishable. Also, it is an RPG, strictly speaking.

If you enjoyed Mafia 3, you can also try one of the originators of its formula, The Saboteur. Its story is pure rubbish (then again, that also goes for most any UbiSoft sandbox too), but it can be fun to play, assuming you get used to its movie filter system.

If you do not mind going top-down isometric, then the old Commandos games (Comm2 was recently remastered, although it is… not exactly as good as the original), Desperados 1 and Desperados III (you may wonder why this game series has only two games and no 2 in the middle… the answer is: do not try to find out the answer and just accept the existence of these two), and Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood.
Also, Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, although right now it is more of a "Desperados III: Japan Edition" with worse controls, worse characters, and a much better plot (also, play it with Japanese dub, unless you are American and used to the terrible dubbing the US can do to anything Japanese…yes, despite the game being made and recorded in Europe).

I would discourage going Metal Gear. For one, Kojima. The man cannot shut the fuck up, yet also cannot write a plot that makes sense even in-universe. That is the smaller aspect, since Kojima's writing style can be tolerated, especially with the Skip Cutscene option (that, incidentally, also reduces the playtime by around 96%).
The bigger is that the games reward you not for knocking out everyone and stashing them neatly but running past every guard without being detected, ever. If you want MGS, then try pure stealth games first, like the Styx games on PC, so you can get used to the mindset.

I don't know if it's what you look for, or you can find it anymore, but damn, I finished the game I'm talking about almost fully stealth few times, and other few times full Geronimo mode. It's an oldie, but goldie for me : Turok (2008).