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Of Guards and Thieves is a multiplayer stealth game in which high-powered guards face off against fast and elusive thieves in a contest of wits. Outsmarting the enemy and shooting your way through to the goal are equally valid strategies. Simple rules, emergent gameplay and high replayability.

Of Guards And Thieves is a multiplayer, free to play and stealth game developed and published by Subvert Games and Polygon Moon.
Released on July 16th 2014 is available only on Windows in 26 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Bulgarian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Portuguese - Portugal, Arabic, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Korean, Norwegian, Spanish - Latin America, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

It has received 4,328 reviews of which 3,697 were positive and 631 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is free to play on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Of Guards And Thieves into these genres:

Multiplayer Free to Play Stealth Action Indie Shooter Co-op Top-Down Early Access Casual Massively Multiplayer Team-Based Top-Down Shooter Strategy Tactical Zombies Sandbox Funny Racing Level Editor

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Win 7
  • Processor: 2Ghz Dual Core
  • Memory: 2000 MB RAM
  • Graphics: Shader Model 3.0 compatible
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 600 MB available space

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Jan. 2017
Of Guards and Thieves is a competitive multiplayer stealth game, and you don't really see a lot of those around. Plenty of cooperative stealth but rarely does a game put you against other players. In fact, the best comparison is the “Spies vs Mercs” mode on Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Basically, if you liked that mode but found it to be too severe on the Call of Duty spectrum of gaming, then I have news for you! OGAT is the same idea but in a more indie/flash game type style. Makes sense, as many people who play it through Kongregate and aren’t even aware it’s on Steam. The core mechanics are simple; The Guards tend to be better equipped with more health and assault weapons. The thieves have crossbows and silenced weapons, less health, but one major advantage; Night vision. They must navigate all the maps and turn off the lights while they steal a specific item that only they know about. The guards can find and patrol the multiple items but are not aware of which one it is, giving the less-equipped thieves a tactical advantage. Distraction is a major gameplay element here. There are also other modes to mix this up, including a Team Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, Bomb Defusal, and more. If I had to find a criticism, well... There’s two. They both overlap slightly. The first is that the playerbase is incredibly small, usually peaking at 200 people and going down to 40-60 in off hours. While this is a fine core for the main game mode, I have found it very difficult to explore other game modes such as CTF, or that extra large map where you explore and loot (and what ever happened to Slender?!) I pretty much see 0/10 on all servers unless it’s private or just on a different gametype. Due to the small base of players, there’s no matchmaking and games don’t always autoshuffle so sometimes it can feel like a team is outclassing another. If it does shuffle, there may be a couple of particularly experienced players crushing everyone who just downloaded and are giving it a try. I'm not the worst player but I have on a few occasions found myself in an endless loop of failure because one enemy was just crushing it. I have some friends who can barely play it for more than twenty minutes at a time and it’s a shame. The flip side of this; There's no equipment or pay2win system here. If you play enough you can eventually learn the maps, figure out decent hiding patterns, and perform better yourself. (Protip: Guards can turn off their flashlights and hide in bushes themselves, which is hard to see even with night vision). That kind of thing. Regardless, It’s a great, small game with a fair amount of replayability. The matches are quick and bite-sized, and you can usually get several games in just twenty minutes or so.
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Jan. 2015
Pros: -Beautiful Graphics -Funny engaging gameplay -A variety of different gamemodes, -Very simple yet addicting -Well worth the money Cons: -A rather small player base -No dedicated servers, this ties into what I wrote above because occasionally there are few or no servers to play on because it relies on players to host games and not everyone has the capability to do so. If there were dedicated servers I wouldn't mind a small players base. I highly recommend the game, try the demo and see if you like it, and if you I suggest you buy it! :)
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Dec. 2014
Of Guards And Thieves is a stealth multiplayer game developed by Subvert Games. It features intense action with many featurs such as, Leveling System, 7 competetive gamemodes, 4 fun gamemodes (including soccer), 13 maps, and and an awesome community! PROS *Many varieties of maps and gamemodes *A player count of 200 on average *Constant updates *Max level is 20 (will be changed to 50 in future updates CONS *NOTHING! OGAT is a completely amazing game that has hard working developers and an active community
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Nov. 2014
This Game is awesome it have so many different gamemodes (Guards and Thieves,Team Death Match,Zombie Rush,Faceless(Slenderman),Insta Gib,Soccer,VIP,CTF,...), i love the design and the originall Game idea in the gamemode "Guard and Thieves" where the Guards defend some objects and the thieves try to steal one of them. But in the moment you feel that this game is in Early Access because you can't change Weapons so you have to play with the basic Equipment which the class offers. But i am looking forward that the developer add more Items and the New Singleplayer mode. BUY IT!! THE COMMUNITY MUST GROW!!
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July 2014
I think this game defines what "cute little game" actually is. It's interesting, pick-up-and-play, and the gameplay has enough unique features to keep me hooked. Easy to learn, hard to master, and really fun. It's free on the developer's website, I think, but I paid for it because it's good.
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Of Guards And Thieves is free to play on Steam.

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Of Guards And Thieves received 3,697 positive votes out of a total of 4,328 achieving a rating of 8.26.
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Of Guards And Thieves was developed and published by Subvert Games and Polygon Moon.

Of Guards And Thieves is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Of Guards And Thieves is not playable on MacOS.

Of Guards And Thieves is not playable on Linux.

Of Guards And Thieves is a multi-player game.

Of Guards And Thieves features PvP mode where you can test your skills against other players.

There are 8 DLCs available for Of Guards And Thieves. Explore additional content available for Of Guards And Thieves on Steam.

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Of Guards And Thieves
Free to play
8.3
3,697
631
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
14
Developer
Subvert Games, Polygon Moon
Publisher
Subvert Games, Polygon Moon
Release 16 Jul 2014
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