Games like HITMAN™ 2
If HITMAN™ 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are HITMAN World of Assassination, HITMAN™ and Sniper Elite 4 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and dark. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →HITMAN 2 is a stealth-action game released in 2018 from IO Interactive A/S. Players navigate sandbox environments using a disguise-system and environmental-interaction mechanics to eliminate targets through creative means. The game features mastery-progression that rewards repeated playthroughs, with mission-variety across expansive locations. Reviewers describe the maps as feeling like puzzle-boxes with endless solutions, and players highlight how the disguise-system enables deep social-stealth gameplay. The sandbox-stealth design lets players experiment with numerous approaches to each objective. HITMAN 2 runs verified on Steam Deck and holds a 92% positive rating from over 13,000 Steam reviews. The experience offers a massive single-player campaign that presents a challenging proposition for players seeking methodical, strategic gameplay.
About HITMAN™ 2: Travel the globe and track your targets across exotic sandbox locations in HITMAN™ 2. From sun-drenched streets to dark and dangerous rainforests, nowhere is safe from the world’s most creative assassin, Agent 47 in the ultimate spy thriller story.
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HITMAN World of Assassination
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Shares an atmospheric mood with HITMAN™ 2.
Top pick for HITMAN™ 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
Enter the world of the ultimate assassin. HITMAN World of Assassination delivers the definitive stealth action experience, putting you in the shoes of Agent 47, a master assassin. Explore immersive locations, uncover hidden secrets, and eliminate targets with complete freedom of approach.
HITMAN™
WHY THIS
Shares sandbox stealth, disguise system and an atmospheric mood with HITMAN™ 2.
Second-strongest match for HITMAN™ 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
There is a world beyond ours. Beyond nations, justice, ethics. It never sleeps. It exists everywhere. And once you enter....there is no going back. Welcome to the World of Assassination. You are Agent 47, the world's ultimate assassin.
Sniper Elite 4
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with HITMAN™ 2.
Third-strongest match for HITMAN™ 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
Discover unrivalled sniping freedom in the largest and most advanced World War 2 shooter ever built. Experience tactical third-person combat, gameplay choice and epic longshots across gigantic levels as you liberate wartime Italy from the grip of Fascism.
Sniper Elite 5
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HITMAN™ 2.
Ranked #4 for HITMAN™ 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
The award-winning series returns as Karl Fairburne fights to uncover Project Kraken in 1944 France. The genre-defining authentic sniping, with enhanced kill cam, has never looked or felt better as you fight across immersive maps to stop the Nazi war machine in its tracks.
Hitman: Blood Money
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with HITMAN™ 2.
Ranked #5 for HITMAN™ 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
Money Talks. Silence Pays. Prepare to Make a Killing. When assassins from Agent 47's contract agency, The ICA, are eliminated in a series of hits, it seems a larger, more powerful agency has entered the fray. Sensing he may be a target, 47 travels to America, and prepares to make a killing.
Hitman: Codename 47
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with HITMAN™ 2.
Ranked #6 for HITMAN™ 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
As the enigmatic Hitman, you must use stealth and tactical problem solving to enter, execute and exit your assignment with minimum attention and maximum effectiveness. For a price, you have access to the most devious devices, but how you use them will determine if you retire as a millionaire or get permanently retired.
Gears 5
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Ranked #7 for HITMAN™ 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
From one of gaming’s most acclaimed sagas, Gears is bigger than ever. With all-out war descending, Kait Diaz breaks away to uncover her connection to the enemy and discovers the true danger to Sera – herself.
Styx: Shards of Darkness
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Ranked #8 for HITMAN™ 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
Styx returns in a new stealth adventure! Explore and master huge open environments, sneak past or assassinate new enemies and bosses, and experiment with the new array of lethal abilities and weapons in our goblin assassin's arsenal.
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Dishonored
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Shares an atmospheric mood with HITMAN™ 2.
Reviewers of HITMAN™ 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.
Cyberpunk 2077
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HITMAN™ 2.
Reviewers of HITMAN™ 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure RPG set in the dark future of Night City — a dangerous megalopolis obsessed with power, glamor, and ceaseless body modification.
HITMAN™
WHY THIS
Reviewers of HITMAN™ 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
There is a world beyond ours. Beyond nations, justice, ethics. It never sleeps. It exists everywhere. And once you enter....there is no going back. Welcome to the World of Assassination. You are Agent 47, the world's ultimate assassin.
HITMAN World of Assassination
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HITMAN™ 2.
Reviewers of HITMAN™ 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
Enter the world of the ultimate assassin. HITMAN World of Assassination delivers the definitive stealth action experience, putting you in the shoes of Agent 47, a master assassin. Explore immersive locations, uncover hidden secrets, and eliminate targets with complete freedom of approach.
METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HITMAN™ 2.
Reviewers of HITMAN™ 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell®
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with HITMAN™ 2.
Reviewers of HITMAN™ 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
Enter the world of cinematic stealth action with Splinter Cell, the game that propelled the genre to cult status. You are Sam Fisher, an elite covert agent in the NSA's top-secret division: Third Echelon.
Heat Signature
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Reviewers of HITMAN™ 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
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Bongo Cat
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Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
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The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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More from IO Interactive A/S
Other recommendable Steam games by IO Interactive A/S, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
HITMAN World of Assassination
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with HITMAN™ 2.
Another title from IO Interactive A/S, the studio behind HITMAN™ 2. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
Enter the world of the ultimate assassin. HITMAN World of Assassination delivers the definitive stealth action experience, putting you in the shoes of Agent 47, a master assassin. Explore immersive locations, uncover hidden secrets, and eliminate targets with complete freedom of approach.
HITMAN™
WHY THIS
Shares sandbox stealth, disguise system and an atmospheric mood with HITMAN™ 2.
Another title from IO Interactive A/S, the studio behind HITMAN™ 2. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
There is a world beyond ours. Beyond nations, justice, ethics. It never sleeps. It exists everywhere. And once you enter....there is no going back. Welcome to the World of Assassination. You are Agent 47, the world's ultimate assassin.
HITMAN™
WHY THIS
Another title from IO Interactive A/S, the studio behind HITMAN™ 2. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
There is a world beyond ours. Beyond nations, justice, ethics. It never sleeps. It exists everywhere. And once you enter....there is no going back. Welcome to the World of Assassination. You are Agent 47, the world's ultimate assassin.
Hitman: Codename 47
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with HITMAN™ 2.
Another title from IO Interactive A/S, the studio behind HITMAN™ 2. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
As the enigmatic Hitman, you must use stealth and tactical problem solving to enter, execute and exit your assignment with minimum attention and maximum effectiveness. For a price, you have access to the most devious devices, but how you use them will determine if you retire as a millionaire or get permanently retired.
Freedom Fighters
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with HITMAN™ 2.
Another title from IO Interactive A/S, the studio behind HITMAN™ 2. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
Freedom Fighters is an intense third-person action game set in an alternate history New York during the invasion of a foreign superpower. Take on the role of Chris Stone, a hard-working plumber, and rise through the ranks of the resistance to prove yourself as a charismatic leader.
007 First Light
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Shares environmental interaction and an immersive mood with HITMAN™ 2.
Another title from IO Interactive A/S, the studio behind HITMAN™ 2. Shares Action with HITMAN™ 2.
Earn the Number. 007 First Light is a thrilling espionage action-adventure game from IO Interactive. Follow James Bond as a young, resourceful and sometimes reckless recruit in MI6's training programme, and discover an origin story of the world’s most famous spy.
Frequently asked about HITMAN™ 2
- Is HITMAN™ 2 verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — HITMAN™ 2 is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- Does HITMAN™ 2 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — HITMAN™ 2 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to HITMAN™ 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside HITMAN™ 2 are HITMAN World of Assassination, HITMAN™, Sniper Elite 4.
- Who developed HITMAN™ 2?
- HITMAN™ 2 was developed by IO Interactive A/S.
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