Thieves' Gambit: The Curse of the Black Cat (2014) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Thieves' Gambit: The Curse of the Black Cat

Thieves' Gambit: The Curse of the Black Cat is an interactive heist caper, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based without graphics or sound effects and fueled by the vast, unstoppable…

5 September 2014

What Thieves' Gambit: The Curse of the Black Cat is

Thieves' Gambit: The Curse of the Black Cat is an indie game developed by Choice of Games LLC and released in 2014. It is available on Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on ChoiceScript.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You're the world's greatest jewel thief! Well, second greatest. But if you and your team of talented crooks can steal the Black Cat, the world's unluckiest diamond, you'll be legendary! Play as male or female; gay, straight, or bi. Choose your methods and your motives. Will you be an honorable thief or a ruthless criminal? A technical genius or a master of disguise? Who can you trust, and who will you double-cross? The Black Cat has never been stolen, its previous owners all having died under improbably unfortunate circumstances. Break into the palace of San Castellano, pinch the gem, evade the relentless Inspector Leclerc and get away before you succumb to the Curse of the Black Cat!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Thieves' Gambit: The Curse of the Black Cat launched on 5 September 2014, within three weeks of Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux, Bayonetta 2 and Destiny.

Released around the same time: Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux, Bayonetta 2, Destiny.

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