Slip into the shadows and sharpen your cunning. Thief Simulator Mastermind Edition invites you to orchestrate the perfect crime with surgical precision. This isn’t just petty theft; it’s a cerebral sandbox of surveillance, stealth, and strategy where every lockpick and laser-dodged vault feels like a masterstroke. Our deep dive into Thief Simulator Mastermind Edition uncovers the thrill of building your criminal empire one blueprint at a time, where brains beat brawn and every heist is a puzzle waiting to be solved.

Thief Simulator Mastermind Edition Review Pros

• Decent graphics. 
• 1.1GB download size. 
• Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, and turn rumble on and off. 
• Hard mode option. 
• Includes the Luxury houses DLC, which is four new homes with advanced security. 
• Three brand new luxury vehicles to steal. 
• Four new tools – deciphering device, under-door camera, key card duplicator, and universal window remote. 
• New heist missions and loot/rewards. 
• A full 3D game world and you have 360-degree camera control. 
• Break in and steal stuff gameplay. 
• Tutorial pop-ups as you play, and the initial robbery serves as a tutorial. 
• Radial wheel menu shortcut, where you can assign tools to it freely. 
• Button prompts do appear at times. 
• End of robbery breakdown showing a rank, stolen item list, stealth rating using a five-star system, and earned exp. 
• You have a home with a bed to advance time and a computer. 
• The computer can be used to buy new tools and gadgets, and use the forums to buy tips and insider knowledge on homes and owners. 
• The game uses a system where you need to be quiet by crouching, stay out of the light to remain unseen, etc. 
• When in a house, you can look at stealable items and it will say it’s weight and worth. 
• Weight plays a huge part in what you can carry. 
• When opening doors, windows, drawers, etc, you can do it normally and make more noise or slower and make no noise. Luckily, you have a noise bar showing how much noise you are indeed making. 
• Full day and night system, and as said, you can change the game time by sleeping. 
• Your pause menu will house your tips, skill tree, items, and you can also see the controls. 
• The game is first-person view. 
• You can drive a car around. 
• Open world and play how you want. 
• People and items get a thick outline around them, which, along with any Intel you learn, will show markers and text. 
• If you don’t have the required tool or skill, it will show as pop-up text in red on the interaction point. 
• You can trigger the police and get chased, and to lose them, you can leave the map or hide in bins and dumpsters. On the map, it will show a red circle to help with avoiding them. 
• The mini map will show the numbers of the properties, roads, police, etc. 
• When leaving your house, you can pick your location. 
• Visit the Pawnshop to sell stolen items for cash. 
• When sneaking (crouching), you can lean around corners. 
• Central storage chest for tools and items. 
• The game does have cool little features, like you can have neighbours get suspicious about you, you can have the cops called on you if you stop traffic or park in a place where people don’t know you, it’s all relayed to you in red text on screen and gives you some time to get away before it triggers. 
• Damage to your vehicle pops up as it happens in real time. 
• Big items can be carried and put in the back of your vehicle. 
• Two car views – in the car and outside of the car. 
• You can see the vision cone of people, and it will change colour if they suspect you. 
• Black Bay on your computer is where you sell specifically requested items for cash. 
• Rent a thug on your computer is where you can get side quests, and these are not always about stealing stuff. 
• Your home can be customised, and you can move furniture around. 
• Earn exp and level up to get skill points to unlock new abilities and options in the skill tree. 
• When taking on missions and jobs, you will get markers on the map and screen, but also a ticklist. 
• There is a lock-picking mini-game. 
• I found myself just getting swept up in it all and losing hours to it. It’s a very moreish game and you always want to see what’s next. 
• Fast loading times. 
• To finish a robbery, you have to leave the area. 
• Tenant behaviour is where you can tag them and get a rota of their movements. 
• You can sleep in your car to stake a location out. 
• It’s a game that plays well on handheld and is even better with headphones on. 

Thief Simulator Mastermind Edition Review Cons

• You cannot remap the controls. 
• No accessibility options at all, like text size, bigger graphics or Colourblind. 
• Not the greatest music, it’s very free use. 
• The performance is not fantastic and smooth, but it’s good enough, a bit disappointing on docked play. 
• Menus and general controls are sluggish. 
• Pause the game with a car nearby, and it will make the noise indefinitely. 
• Slow starter, as you have quite a bit to take in. 
• Shop items like tools and gadgets are locked behind skill tree unlocks.
• A lot of weird clipping and glitching with walls, doors and fencing. 
• Driving the car is not fun, and the views are really not good. 
• Hitting a person is an instant fail, and you start again. The issue here is that they can just appear out of nowhere or round a blind corner and all your work is lost. 
• So many things you cannot steal or open, and it’s very frustrating. 
• Aiming the Crosshair to interact with something is tedious, especially with lockers, as you never know which drawer you are about to open. 
• The AI can be either really good or really bad. 
• Seems you have to follow so many low-level jobs until you get to the good robberies and get the good gadgets and toys. 
• Police can and will go through walls and doors to arrest you. 
• There is just enough jank on the sides to stop it from being an absolute must-play. 
• Police catch you way too easily. 
• Reading and understanding the tenant reports is not straightforward. 

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Thief Simulator Mastermind Edition

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Developer: Noble Muffins

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