Games in this genre may feature Optional Stealth, where playing it stealthily is encouraged but not strictly necessary. Hidden in plain sight: As part of the crowd or as part of the scenery.Moving through shadows: Avoiding the light, creating darkness to move through.Line-of-sight breaking: Horizontally or vertically, stay out of view.The different types of stealth used can be broken up as such, though many are often hybrids. And they better hide the bodies well because someone is going to stumble over them otherwise.
Whatever it is though, they've got to be careful, stick to the shadows, kill silently, and only when necessary. Just running away from enemies like in Pac-Man isn't enough to count as a stealth-based game you need to be actively hiding from them. Either it's too easy to die (many of the enemies can even be Instakill Mooks), you can't carry enough ammo, enemies are either too powerful for a direct confrontation or outright invincible, or there is some other reason. In a Stealth-Based Game, the player's character is simply too weak to survive a head to head confrontation with his enemies most of the time. They don't have to worry about setting alarms off, or enemy reinforcements being summoned (true, there are occasionally levels where you have to be a bit careful, but those are specifically scripted). In most video games, the player's character is powerful enough to mow down enemies left and right. Anecdotal response to Hideo Kojima's proposal for the original Metal Gear
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