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❤ Gameplay Overview

You take on the role of a thieves' guild leader operating in a Victorian-era city. Your goal is to earn the most victory points by scouting the city, infiltrating businesses, hiring henchmen, and competing against rival guilds.

❤ Scouting and Exploration

You control a Master Thief character who can move around the game board, unveiling the "fog of war" to discover the city layout and locations of buildings and resources.

❤ Resource Management

You manage two main resources - Coins and Lanterns. Coins hire and deploy henchmen units, while Lanterns unlock new guild abilities and upgrades.

❤ Henchmen Recruitment

You can recruit Street Urchins, Thugs, Gangs, and Assassins. Each type has unique abilities to control territory, attack opponents, and earn victory points.

❤ Territorial Control

Deploying Urchins to occupy key buildings generates income and other benefits. Evicting opponent Urchins and securing district control is a core strategy.

❤ Victory Conditions

Most scenarios task you with being the first to reach a set number of victory points, earned through burglary, blackmail, assassination, and other means.

❤ Gameplay Depth and Variety

While the core mechanics are straightforward, the game offers significant strategic complexity: Randomized map layouts and building placements require adapting your strategies each game. Three distinct technology upgrade paths allow you to specialize your thieves' guild. Varied scenario objectives, from eliminating rival gangs to protecting cargo, shake up the gameplay. Asynchronous multiplayer enables contemplative, back-and-forth matches against human opponents.

❤ Player Praise

Reviewers consistently praise the game's elegant design and gameplay loop, highlighting: The fast-paced yet deep strategy that balances simplicity and nuance. The charming, well-realized Victorian theme and art style. The satisfying feeling of outmaneuvering opponents as a master thief. The effective blend of singleplayer campaign and replayable multiplayer modes.