Best-selling stealth videogame series

The best-selling stealth videogame series is Metal Gear (Konami, 1987). According to developer and publisher Konami, by the end of March 2025, the 17 Metal Gear games and their remakes and remasters had sold a total of 62.9 million units.

The Metal Gear series often sees players put in the sneaky shoes of a special forces soldier known as Solid Snake. The titular Metal Gear refers to a kind of super weapon, a giant, armoured walking tank capable of launching nuclear weapons. The aim of many games in the series is to find and destroy them.

The series was created by Hideo Kojima, who was the lead developer on the vast majority of Metal Gear games. He wrote, directed, and was lead designer of, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Konami Digital Entertainment, 2015), which was his last work at publishers Konami. After he left, he formed the independent studio Kojima Productions and developed Death Stranding (2019).