Arkane's games, and other emergent sims like Deus Ex, usually blend stealth with combat and deep storytelling, frequently invoking player choice as a key pillar of their structure.
Their titles are traditionally played from a first person perspective and frequently involve shooting, but to call Prey or Dishonored 'first person shooters' would be reductive. In the realm of atypical first person games, few studios are as beloved as Arkane. Arkane Studios, renowned developer of emergent sims like Dishonored, was working on a stand-alone Half-Life spin-off game before publisher Valve cancelled the project.