I had a long rambling, review written for this game, as I did not enjoy this at all. But... I will keep this short and sweet.

Thieves' Gambit is longwinded. Not in a good way, either, mind you. It rambles nearly as much as I do, and barely anything happens, even as the climax is upon you. Everything feels stilted, drawn out for maximum word count, and lifeless. I figure this is more a cash grab than an actual story that the author had been wanting to write.

I do not recommend this game, at all. Try something else from the COG library. Like Heroes Rise, Choice of Robots, Choice of the Deathless, etcetc.

It's rather short, not very interesting, and written boringly. No jokes or whatever. It seems like some kind of Ocean's 11, just as a story. And it's less compelling than Ocean, which is saying rather a lot, because I personally feel the movies weren't very good.
It's not a complete waste of time, though. I suppose if it's on sale, it won't kill to buy (that's what I did).

This had great potential, but it kinda falls flat.

The Good:
-You have two antagonists: a rival who is better than you and a police who is always one step ahead of you.
-I liked the history of the black cat diamond, made my skin crawl.

The Bad:
-Not enough stressful decisions. There are two that I vividly recall, but the rest are pretty meh.
-Too many characters. You can recruit up to 5 members on your team and each one makes the job that much easier. However two of them have no purpose or specialization. And with such a short story I'm not really sure what my role in this was, besides assembling the team. The story and action would have benefitted greatly by limiting your team size to 3 recruitables.

All this being said I do want to play again and try out some different options. The game is the right price, but there are much better ones out there.

All in all?... Very underwhelimg. I think I was spoiled by Choice of Robots. I keep expecting these games to be of the same caliber. But this.. this is absolutely just a waste of time in comparison. I don't obtain money often so getting the games high up in my wishlist should be a treat. Even if it is only 2-3$ but this was just...I can't reccomend buying this. I'd reccommend just replaying Choice of Robots and pretending you never seen this store page, or any other Choice of Games product bar that one and I am incredibly sorry to say that, because this genre of 'game' is so overlooked and yet magnificent. But they rose the bar and haven't hit it since. It's like if Usain Bolt finished the 100m sprint in 5 seconds in the 2012 olympics and then took a minute every other time running.

Tags: Adventure - Choose Your Own
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library

TLDR: Bland audiovisually. Mechanically simple CYOA about heisting as a notorious thief. Scripting and dialogue authentic to paper CYOA and replayability suffers for it.

Series of mini-events in which you can usually adopt a response that follows a stealth/charisma/brute force kind of approach and at which you can be more, or less, successful at based on how you answered early game character creation questions, and potentially RNG although I dont really know either way. Engine is all white background, black text, simple buttons. No audio or illustrations. Does not seem to be much of a game, scripting wise, to determine success or failure or allow more freedom, which you would sort of expect on a PC version of this format of entertainment. All in all pretty disappointing with a fairly derivative, "famous thief" plot, trying to outprestige each other. Sigh. Kind of annoying to get to the end, fail a roll for unknown reasons, and be forced to either quit or click through all the dialogue all over again, replay value is lower than you'd expect.

While this wasn't the worst thing I have ever read, I still feel very disappointed. It's a great deal shorter than most of these stories, not very immersive, uninteresting story, bland characters, predictable twists and is often unclear in it's options. I find myself skimming everything in re-reads and didn't care about what happened. I only reccomend it to those who want to play all of these games or want to kill an hour for a cheap price - just don't go in with high expectations. Compared to other games in this genre it is one I have liked the least.