World of Thieves Demo

Thievery is not the wisest career choice out there, but it’s at least true that the trade requires some interesting techniques and abilities if you intend to get good at it. Being silent and knowing when and what to take is what differentiates a good thief from a lousy one, because everyone can just take stuff that doesn’t belong to them.

World of Thieves is a third-person action-adventure game in which stealth is the most important element, given the fact that you play the role of a thief that’s about to join the Guild of Thieves. Hence, your character needs to be able to perform a few daring acrobatics and move silently at the same time, because these are important skills to have when you have to get past enemies unnoticed.

The game also features open world mechanics, in the sense that you have the liberty to explore the levels as you see fit and choose your own path when it comes to finishing the missions. Speaking of which, almost every task involves stealing some kind of object, although the game is not as violent as you might think. Instead, you usually have to take animal eggs, paintings and things like that. There are weapons involved, however, ranging from wooden sticks, to bows and arrows.

The gameplay is quite libertine in general, but there some things you can’t sometimes do. As such, while you are free to climb almost any kind of object or building, you can only do so until your strength bar runs out, after which you fall. Although this obviously limits your movement a bit, the levels are designed in such a way as to not hinder your ability to climb onto whatever you like.

The controls are precise and you rarely find yourself not being able to perform the trick you had in mind. The camera could use a bit of fixing, but as a whole, the game has no major problems in the technical department. In fact, the graphics look quite nice, except maybe for the characters, which are animated rather poorly and you can see that the models are not very detailed either.

In the end, World of Thieves is a good idea and it has a bright future in front of it, as long as some of the design issues are addressed. Hence, with more varied missions and more things to do other than climb walls, the game can turn into quite the hit.