The jobs blend into each other quickly, with little to differentiate them.

The cops and civilians are pretty stupid, with AI that forgets you exist if you just duck into a closet, and fields of vision that make zero sense (case in point: the time I was able to hide from someone simply by crouching in front of them, even though I was holding a giant painting at the time). While that probably sounds exciting on the surface, it makes for shallow, repetitive gameplay. In the neighbourhoods, you’re sometimes assigned targets, but just as often, you’re left to our own devices to steal as much as you can while avoiding suspicion and the police. You pawn your stolen wares at the pawn shop. At your home base, you sleep, pick up jobs, buy new tools, get tips on possible targets, and learn new skills. You spend the game going between your home, a couple of neighbourhoods, and a pawn shop. I’ve simplified things a little, but this game is already pretty simple. There are no banks or casino heists here: this is all about small-scale break and enter, picking locks and climbing trellises to get into houses and then getting what you can, with a bit of vandalism along the way to mix things up. After all, where many of them put you in the shoes of farmers, or bus drivers, or mechanics, Thief Simulator - as the title implies - promises to give you a taste of life on the other side of the law.īut, no, it turns out that just like most other job simulators, Thief Simulator seems to exist to show you about how the job is defined by constant repetition.

Thief Simulator feels like it should be different than most job simulators. Developer: Forever Entertainment / Noble Muffins

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