Games like Thief Simulator
If Thief Simulator is your kind of game, the closest matches are Thief Simulator 2, Prison Simulator and Thief Simulator 3 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its replayability through varied contracts, tactical positioning matters and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Thief Simulator is an action-adventure-simulation hybrid developed by Noble Muffins and published by PlayWay S.A., released in 2018 at $19.99. The game tasks players with executing careful house-robbing operations, requiring pattern-recognition to study target routines, stealth-mission-planning to map escape routes, and tool-utilization to overcome security measures. Players explore open-world environments from a first-person perspective, gathering intel and acquiring equipment to complete varied contracts. Players describe the atmosphere as immersive and reviewers highlight the game's attention-to-detail in house layouts, with tactical positioning mattering significantly across different heists. The title holds an 88% positive rating from over 11,000 Steam reviews and runs in a playable state on Steam Deck.
About Thief Simulator: Become the best thief. Gather intel, steal things and sell them to buy hi-tech equipment. Do everything that a real thief does.
Players who liked Thief Simulator also play
Steam players who put hours into Thief Simulator also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Thief Simulator 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Thief Simulator.
Top pick for Thief Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Thief Simulator.
The door to your robber’s career is waiting! Just crowbar the lock off and force your way through the threshold. Learn skills, collect tools and become a master of the thieving trade!
Prison Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Thief Simulator.
Second-strongest match for Thief Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Thief Simulator.
Get a taste of prison life! Become a prison guard and deal with dangerous convicts. Prison management, lots of daily activities. Will you become the best guard in history? Or maybe you'll turn into the worst scumbag this Prison has ever seen?
Thief Simulator 3
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Thief Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Thief Simulator.
The Thief is back! Play solo or team up in CO-OP as a duo of thieves, plan the perfect hits, or improvise when things go wrong. From pickpocket to crime boss – only the best gangs will make it to the top.
Drug Dealer Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Thief Simulator.
Ranked #4 for Thief Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Thief Simulator.
Have you ever considered creating your own crime empire, without the legal and moral consequences? SIMULATE IT! Crawl into the dark alleys of the street business in this OG drug-dealing game, and make a fortune! A co-op sequel – DDS2 – is out NOW
American Theft 80s
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Thief Simulator.
Ranked #5 for Thief Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Thief Simulator.
From the THIEF SIMULATOR developers. It's the 80s. Steal VCRs, tapes, classic cars, and if you get caught, outrun the police!
Crime Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Thief Simulator.
Ranked #6 for Thief Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Thief Simulator.
You’re out of jail, but the debt isn’t gone. Sneak, steal, and break into houses solo or in 4-player co-op. Use lockpicks, sleeping gas, and brute force to complete jobs, outsmart security, and make enough money before time runs out. Will you pay back what you owe, or lose everything?
Prison Simulator Prologue
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Thief Simulator.
Ranked #7 for Thief Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Thief Simulator.
Wanna find out what a prison riot looks like? Check a free stand-alone prologue for Prison Simulator. A story that is not available in the full game! Be warned: Police baton might not be enough to bring order to the prison halls.
Teardown
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Thief Simulator fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Thief Simulator.
Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Thief Simulator
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Kenshi
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Thief Simulator cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Thief Simulator.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Cartel Tycoon
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Thief Simulator.
Reviewers of Thief Simulator cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Thief Simulator.
Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival thugs and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.
Guild Wars 2®
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Thief Simulator.
Reviewers of Thief Simulator cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Thief Simulator.
Guild Wars 2 is an award-winning online roleplaying game with fast-paced action combat, deep character customization, and no subscription fee required. Choose from an arsenal of professions and weapons, explore a vast open world, compete in PVP modes and more. Join over 16 million players now!
The Guild 3
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Thief Simulator.
Reviewers of Thief Simulator cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Thief Simulator.
The Guild 3 is a fascinating trade and life simulation that takes place during the late Middle Ages. Step into the shoes of a citizen, acquire businesses and mansions, produce goods and trade them, start intrigues in politics and society, love, hate, bribe, fight and live through good and bad times!
PC Building Simulator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Thief Simulator.
Reviewers of Thief Simulator cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Thief Simulator.
Build and grow your very own computer repair enterprise as you learn to diagnose, fix and build PCs. With real-world licensed components and comprehensive hardware and software simulation, you can plan and bring your ultimate PC to life.
Car Mechanic Simulator 2021
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Thief Simulator cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with Thief Simulator.
Work your way to a service empire. Get your hands dirty in a highly realistic simulation game that pays major attention to details. Pay a visit to a new Auction house and buy cars in various conditions. Expand your range of services by investing in a new work space and equipment.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Thief Simulator at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Thief Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Thief Simulator.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Thief Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Thief Simulator.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Thief Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Action with Thief Simulator.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Thief Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Thief Simulator.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Thief Simulator on Steam right now. Shares Action with Thief Simulator.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Thief Simulator.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Thief Simulator.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Thief Simulator.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Thief Simulator.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Thief Simulator.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Thief Simulator.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Thief Simulator.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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More from Noble Muffins
Other recommendable Steam games by Noble Muffins, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Demolish & Build 2018
WHY THIS
Another title from Noble Muffins, the studio behind Thief Simulator. Shares Indie and Simulation with Thief Simulator.
Your company is going global. Use big machines to demolish huge buildings or go close and personal and use your hammer. Buy land properties, upgrade your machines and hire workers in different parts of the world.
American Theft 80s
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Thief Simulator.
Another title from Noble Muffins, the studio behind Thief Simulator. Shares Action and Indie with Thief Simulator.
From the THIEF SIMULATOR developers. It's the 80s. Steal VCRs, tapes, classic cars, and if you get caught, outrun the police!
Demolish & Build 2017
WHY THIS
Another title from Noble Muffins, the studio behind Thief Simulator. Shares Simulation with Thief Simulator.
Become a boss of Demolition & Build company. Destroy small wooden huts and huge concrete buildings. Manage your workers. Invest earned cash in your own land properties and rent them for profit in open sandbox world. Use various hand tools, buy new machines and customize their parts.
American Theft 80s: Prologue
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Thief Simulator.
Another title from Noble Muffins, the studio behind Thief Simulator. Shares Action and Indie with Thief Simulator.
You're Jack, a thief in the 80s. Steal VCRs, tapes, and other 80s items in this prologue of American Theft 80s! Newest game from THIEF SIMULATOR developers.
Thief Simulator 3
WHY THIS
Another title from Noble Muffins, the studio behind Thief Simulator. Shares Action and Indie with Thief Simulator.
The Thief is back! Play solo or team up in CO-OP as a duo of thieves, plan the perfect hits, or improvise when things go wrong. From pickpocket to crime boss – only the best gangs will make it to the top.
Frequently asked about Thief Simulator
- Does Thief Simulator run on Steam Deck?
- Thief Simulator is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Thief Simulator cost?
- Thief Simulator is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Thief Simulator?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Thief Simulator are Thief Simulator 2, Prison Simulator, Thief Simulator 3.
- Who developed Thief Simulator?
- Thief Simulator was developed by Noble Muffins and published by PlayWay S.A..
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