Of Guards And Thieves

Top-down multiplayer stealth shooter pits guards against elusive thieves

Subvert Games, Polygon Moon · Released Jul 16, 2014 · Early Access

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Reviews: Very Positive; 85% of 4,319
Recent reviews: Not enough recent
Playing now: 1; right now
Steam Deck: Playable
Last update: 5 years ago; Jul 7, 2021

What is Of Guards And Thieves?

A top-down multiplayer stealth shooter pits armed guards against quick thieves in team-based matches. Players hide, search for opponents, or shoot their way toward objectives, using operators with different weapons and gadgets.

For you if...

+you like stealth matches with opposing player roles
+you enjoy choosing operators with different weapons and gadgets
+you want to organize private matches with friends

Not for you if...

−you prefer playing alone to team-based matches
−you dislike top-down gunfights against other players

What players say

85% of 4,319 reviews are positive

Players praise the guard-versus-thief gameplay, especially when playing with friends. Their most common complaint is that so few people are playing that finding a public match is difficult.

Screenshots and trailer

Of Guards And Thieves system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Win 7
Processor: 2Ghz Dual Core
Graphics: Shader Model 3.0 compatible
Memory: 2000 MB RAM
Storage: 600 MB available space

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 57
Steam features: Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards, In-app purchases

Steam Deck: Playable

Default controller config not fully functional
Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
The native resolution is not the default one
Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

Multiplayer and co-op

Languages

Full audio: English. Text only: French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Bulgarian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Portuguese - Portugal, Arabic, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Korean, Norwegian, Spanish - Latin America, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.