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App ID
688000
App Type
Game
Name
Trials of the Thief-Taker
Developer
Choice of Games
Publisher
Choice of Games
Supported Systems
PC Linux Mac
First Record Import
April 09, 2019 - 20:35:40 UTC (2270 days ago)
Last Record Update
May 22, 2025 - 20:58:05 UTC (35 days ago)
Release Date
10. Aug. 2017

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Promising Start
Promising Start
To the Victor
To the Victor
Sleuth
Sleuth
First Trial
First Trial
False Fortune
False Fortune
Wiping up Crime
Wiping up Crime
Stitch Up
Stitch Up
An Unlikely Story
An Unlikely Story
The Light
The Light
Rider
Rider
Dandy Dancer
Dandy Dancer
Corruption
Corruption
Calamitous Risk
Calamitous Risk
For The Price of a Cup of Tea
For The Price of a Cup of Tea
Self-Exile Advocate
Self-Exile Advocate
Treason!
Treason!
Dustman
Dustman
Not So Different
Not So Different
Greatest of Thief-Takers
Greatest of Thief-Takers
Bloated Blake
Bloated Blake
Strange Bedfellows
Strange Bedfellows
Partners in Crime
Partners in Crime
For The Record
For The Record
Fixer
Fixer
Matters of State
Matters of State
Feathered Nest
Feathered Nest
Better Late Than Never
Better Late Than Never
Industry and Idleness
Industry and Idleness
Unimpeachable
Unimpeachable
Condemned
Condemned
Master Thief-taker
Master Thief-taker
Lovable Loser
Lovable Loser
Virginia Bound
Virginia Bound
For the True King
For the True King
Shadow Hand
Shadow Hand
The Long Haul
The Long Haul
Quiet Life
Quiet Life
Breakout
Breakout
Rescue
Rescue
Plot at Tyburn
Plot at Tyburn
Beyond the Veil
Beyond the Veil
Wealth Beyond Measure
Wealth Beyond Measure
Almost Royalty
Almost Royalty
Pack of Dogs
Pack of Dogs
Full Deck
Full Deck
Rum Wit
Rum Wit
Rum Loper
Rum Loper
Rum Swell
Rum Swell
Rum Miller
Rum Miller
Trials of the Thief-Taker
Rating auf Steam Ausgeglichen
60% 6 4
In London, 1729, before they had police, they had you: thief-takers, hunting criminals for cash! Fire a flintlock and sip gin in the age of powdered wigs. Will you grow rich catching smugglers and highwaymen, show mercy, or become a crime boss yourself?

Trials of the Thief-Taker is a 140,000-word interactive historical adventure novel by Joey Jones, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

As a thief-taker, paid by the court or hired by the victims of crime to recover property and, for an extra price, bring the culprit to justice, you'll stalk your prey across the misty commons and narrow rookeries of 18th-century London. Lead a gang of unwashed ruffians (or stalk the streets alone) as you apprehend highwaymen on lonely roads, and root out crooks and counterfeiters in inns and coffeehouses. Through cunning, force, or suspicious connections, you will find your mark.

You may strike a blow for justice, making a name for yourself and bringing good people to your cause. Or you can create the crimes you intend to solve, stealing the goods you'll be paid to recover, bribing prison guards to let your associates go, building your criminal empire while everyone lauds you as a hero.

Be quick or cautious, proper or disreputable, generous or mercenary...it's all in a day's work for a thief-taker.

Load your flintlock! There are thieves to take.

  • Play as male, female, or as a woman disguised as a man; gay or straight.
  • Make your way through a world ruled by manners, harsh laws, and lurking treachery.
  • Run an empire of crime or establish the first police force...or both at the same time!
  • Capture, befriend, or romance corrupt officials, escape artists, courtiers, highwaymen, smugglers and grave-robbers.
  • Immerse yourself in Georgian lingo: learn the difference between a cove and a swell, a blue pigeon and an ark ruffian.
  • Play the high-stakes dice game Hazard in the gaming houses of Covent Garden.
  • Make your way with your silver tongue, a good horse, your street smarts or with two fists flying.