Tomorrow is a good day if you love stealth games. Thick As Thieves – the new heist game from Warren Spector and Paul Neurath, the people behind Thief and Deus Ex – launches on PC on May 20. And it costs five dollars.
Legends of the Genre, Reunited
Warren Spector was the studio director on Deus Ex and Thief: Deadly Shadows. Paul Neurath was the executive producer on Thief: The Dark Project and Thief: The Metal Age – two games that essentially defined the stealth genre as we know it. Together at OtherSide Entertainment, they’ve been building Thick As Thieves, and it finally arrives this week.
The game is set in Kilcairn, a fictional Scottish city in an alternate 1910s where magic and early technology coexist. You play as a member of the Thieves’ Guild, taking on contracts to steal heirlooms and uncover arcane secrets from the city’s most well-guarded locations. The game supports solo play or two-player online co-op.
$5 Is Not a Typo
The $4.99 launch price is entirely intentional. OtherSide and publisher Megabit are positioning this as an introductory campaign – roughly four hours of content across two maps and 16 contracts – designed to get players into the world cheaply before future content expands it. Each run shifts security layouts and guard patterns, so the replay value is baked in even from day one.
The toolkit at your disposal includes Slithersap to short-circuit security lights, Smoke Bombs for breaking lines of sight, and the Pickpocket Fairy for triggering distant switches without direct contact. The game rewards patience, observation, and creative improvisation – exactly what you’d expect from these particular developers.
Thick As Thieves launches May 20 on Steam and Epic Games Store. Console versions for PS5 and Xbox Series are planned but don’t have a release date yet.
