14 Stealth games like The Last of Us that you should try

It shares the essentials of what The Last of Us does: loot and gear systems, melee combat, and single-player focus. Both also lean on a third-person camera. The distance is in tone and progression — its own ground is exploration and discovery, and strong narrative focus.

Genre puts it alongside The Last of Us, and so does melee combat, post-apocalyptic world and multiplayer gameplay. The common ground extends to a third-person camera. Where the two diverge is setting and game mode: a sci-fi setting and offline play.

It shares the essentials of what The Last of Us does: dark, oppressive atmosphere, stealth mechanics and horror setting. The common ground extends to single-player focus and a third-person camera. Where the two diverge is progression and setting: exploration and discovery, and a sci-fi setting.

It meets The Last of Us on stealth mechanics, single-player focus and a third-person camera. The distance is in progression — its own ground is exploration and discovery.

With The Last of Us it shares melee combat, single-player focus and a third-person camera. They part company on combat: this one brings tactical combat.

Shelved next to The Last of Us for good reason: stealth mechanics, single-player focus and a third-person camera. Where the two diverge is progression and game mode: exploration and discovery.

Same family as The Last of Us: stealth mechanics, multiplayer gameplay and a third-person camera. Where the two diverge is setting and combat: tactical combat and fantasy world.

What brings it close to The Last of Us is dark, oppressive atmosphere, stealth mechanics and horror setting, and the two track each other on genre, tone and setting. To that it adds single-player focus and a third-person camera. They part company on game mode.

What carries over from The Last of Us is stealth mechanics, single-player focus and a third-person camera. Where the two diverge is setting: fantasy world.

The genre is the same as The Last of Us’s, and with it stealth mechanics, single-player focus and a third-person camera. They part company on combat and game mode: this one brings magic-based combat and offline play.

It meets The Last of Us on stealth mechanics, single-player focus and a third-person camera.

Shelved next to The Last of Us for good reason: stealth mechanics, single-player focus and a third-person camera. They part company on combat and game mode: this one brings tactical combat.

Shelved next to The Last of Us for good reason: dark, oppressive atmosphere, stealth mechanics and single-player focus. The common ground extends to a third-person camera. Where the two diverge is combat and game mode: tactical combat and offline play.

On paper it is what The Last of Us is — stealth mechanics, single-player focus and a third-person camera — though the resemblance is mostly at that level. The distance is in game mode and combat — its own ground is tactical combat.