Thick As Thieves Reviews
Thick As Thieves is a title that certainly shines more in cooperative, but it still remains a rather limited experience and not extremely satisfying in the long term.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Thick as Thieves is a video game that’s hard to recommend, but also hard to simply dismiss. It has few maps, inconsistent AI, fairly familiar mechanics, and a constant sense of being a cut-down or repurposed product. However, it also has something important: it can be fun. Once you accept its limitations, it offers tense and satisfying moments.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Is a promising, unfinished, remarkably fun $5 game that filled an obvious gap in the co-op stealth market. The pedigree behind it is real, the core design is right, and the developer’s post-launch responsiveness suggests this has a genuine future if the sales numbers support continued development. It should have been Early Access. It wasn’t. Buy it for what it is — an excellent afternoon of co-op heisting and a proof of concept for something that could be great — not for the hypothetical product it might eventually become. For more stealth and indie game coverage, check out our full reviews section.
Thick As Thieves is a solid, low-stakes stealth romp that knows its limits and mostly sticks to them. It won’t revolutionise the genre, but it delivers satisfying sneaking, fun gadgets, and that glorious dopamine hit of a pocket full of stolen goods. The amount of content at launch may be an issue for some, and I do hope we get updates at a decent clip, but for a game that tasks you with stealing, it's ironic that the price tag of a fiver feels like you are stealing from the developers. If you’ve got a friend to team up with, it becomes even more enjoyable, turning potential frustration into shared laughter when your carefully planned heist devolves into chaos.
Although the game risks becoming repetitive quickly, it easily justifies its price.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
Warren Spector’s Thick as Thieves delivers a bite-sized, budget-friendly homage to classic immersive sims that shines brightest in co-op. However, a lean content offering, sterile solo play, and an underwhelming text-heavy narrative keep this otherwise mechanically sound, Edwardian-era heist from pulling off the ultimate crime.
"Thick as Thieves" isn't a complete disaster, but the gap between what this game promises and what it actually delivers is remarkably large.
Review in German | Read full review
With updates, Thick as Thieves has the potential to deliver a more exciting heist simulator, but it won’t do that with just two characters and two maps to choose from. For now, all it provides is mindless repetition and half-baked stealth.
Thick as Thieves is a small but stylish stealth experience that punches above its weight thanks to excellent level design, immersive sim sensibilities, and a fantastic atmosphere. It’s polished, clever, and extremely fun – especially with a friend in co-op.
Thick as Thieves is a solid stealth steal-em-up that will probably be elevated by finding a few sticky-fingered friends to play with.
Thick as Thieves annoyed me more than I wanted it to, because the good parts are easy to see. The atmosphere is strong, some escapes really do get tense, and the idea of learning a location piece by piece fits the thief fantasy well. But the game keeps getting in its own way. Too many objectives are vague, too many systems are left half-explained, and solo runs start to feel like you are wasting time rather than pulling off a clever heist. Co-op might help with that, but it was not available in the review build, so I can only judge what I played. And as a solo stealth game, Thick as Thieves has promise, but not enough direction or variety to make that promise pay off.
Playing Thick As Thieves felt more like interacting with an expanded demo or an early access title than a full release. One thing that deserves praise is that the developers communicate the available content in the store page quite clearly. Right now, however, it’s a game that offers very little.
Review in Polish | Read full review
Thick As Thieves is not a completely bad game, and there is genuinely the foundation for something better here, but as it stands, it is an underwhelming stealth experience. The core ideas have some promise, yet they are wrapped in a bare-bones package that does not offer much of an interesting challenge unless you push through repetitive contracts just to unlock the difficulties where the game actually starts to come alive.
Thick as Thieves is a game that, in many moments, feels more like an alpha version than a truly finished product. The title offers little content and unfortunately fails even in basic aspects of its main mechanics.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
A tight, yet creative stealth game builds a fun whole on top of the genre's conventions.
Review in Finnish | Read full review
Thick as Thieves delivers exactly what stealth fans have been missing, a beautifully designed, highly complex world where exploration, patience, and map knowledge matter just as much as pure gameplay skill. For just five euros, it offers far more depth, tension, and fun than you’d ever expect at that price point.
Review in Unknown | Read full review
Thick As Thieves is fun for a fiver, but it does feel like a small chunk of something far bigger and more interesting that we may never get to see.