Stealth Bastard
Steal Bastard or Stealth Bastard: Tactical Espionage Arsehole is a Freeware stealth-based game by Curve Studios. Unlike most stealth games, this game is a Platformer.
The objective of this game is to avoid cameras, robots, laser beams, circular saws, and other deadly obstacles in order open up and reach each Level Goal.
The game can be found here. It comes with a level editor, and the many levels created by its community can be downloaded through the game itself.
Tropes used in Stealth Bastard include:
- Alertness Blink: When a robot is fully alerted by the player, ! appears. Usually accompanies a Frickin Laser Beam and Ludicrous Gibs.
- Badass: The protagonist.
- Confused Question Mark: Robots and cameras that noticed you when you were partly visible or just outside of their main detection range will have this. Don't let this become Alertness Blink exclamation points.
- Death Trap: There a lot of traps. They're often marked with a smiley face and/or blood and skulls.
- Force Field Door: Containment fields to be precise. These only contain the player.
- Frickin' Laser Beams: One of the obstacle types in the game. Enemies also fire these.
- Glowing Eyes: The main character has these. The eyes are either green, orange or red, depending on how visible he is to enemies.
- Glowing Mechanical Eyes: The robots and the pushable weights have these.
- Helpful Mook: Some of the robots help to hold down buttons or block laser beams.
- Level Editor: Comes with the game. Has resulted in several hundred user-generated levels, and counting.
- Level Goal
- Ludicrous Gibs: When the main character dies.
- Malevolent Architecture: Who builds laser beams, crushing blocks and switches all over the building?
- Pressure Plate: Common puzzle elements. Weighed down by robots, blocks and player.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Enemies which notice the player, have red eyes.