Games Like Crookz - The Big Heist

Shadow Tactics is a hardcore tactical stealth game set in Japan around the Edo period. A new Shogun seizes power over Japan and enforces nationwide peace. In his battle against conspiracy and rebellion, he recruits five specialists with extraordinary skills for assassination, sabotage and espionage.

Why similar: Stealth 57.2%, Strategy 22.5%, Tactical 20.3%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the core real-time-with-pause tactical stealth gameplay that makes Crookz so engaging.

Desperados III is a story-driven, hardcore tactical stealth game, set in a ruthless Wild West scenario. Play smart if you want to succeed. A good plan can make the difference between survival and finding yourself at the business end of a pistol.

Why similar: Stealth 54.2%, Strategy 28.7%, Tactical 17.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep tactical planning and squad-based stealth mechanics in a highly polished environment.

Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.

Why similar: Stealth 49.3%, Strategy 24.2%, Tactical 17.8%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on high-stakes heist planning and tactical decision-making in a procedurally generated world.

Relive the real-time tactics masterpiece that defined the genre like no other: Commandos 2 - HD Remaster is a true homage to one of gaming’s most celebrated masterpieces.

Why similar: Strategy 54.7%, Stealth 39%, Tactical 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive tactical squad-based heist game that inspired the entire genre.

Tactical squad-based heist game set in 1970s. The 2D top-down view gives you a great overview of what's happening at any given moment, allowing you to be a real criminal mastermind. Can you pull off the greatest heist in the history of mankind?

Why similar: Heist 57.1% ★, Stealth 20.9%, Strategy 12%, Tactical 10%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down heist strategy game that mirrors the planning phase and tactical execution of Crookz.

Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.

Why similar: Heist 58.5% ★, Stealth 31.8%, Strategy 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the chaotic, cooperative spirit of pulling off a heist with distinct character abilities.

Scout, loot, and get out in Spirited Thief, a tactical turn-based heist simulator with a twist. Search ahead as spirit, Trin, and grab the goods as thief, Elaj. Just make sure you have the loot before the guards come looking!

Why similar: Heist 54% ★, Stealth 27.1%, Strategy 12%, Tactical 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on turn-based heist planning and stealth execution with a unique tactical twist.

Filcher is a first-person 2.5D noir stealth game. As Sporey the master thief, break into guarded buildings to steal from the wealthy and corrupt, using only your senses, your wits, and a handful of tools and gadgets.

Why similar: Stealth 75.5%, Simulation 24.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a classic, focused thief experience with a heavy emphasis on stealth and infiltration.

Slip on your flares, grab your shades and hop in your station wagon, it's time to work… as a professional mob cleaner. In this stylish award winning 2D action-stealth game you have to make sure you get in, clean up and get out without leaving a trace - Queue the funky 70s inspired soundtrack!

Why similar: Stealth 100%

Why You'll Like It: Features a distinct 1970s aesthetic and stealth-based crime gameplay that mirrors the vibe of Crookz.

From the THIEF SIMULATOR developers. It's the 80s. Steal VCRs, tapes, classic cars, and if you get caught, outrun the police!

Why similar: Heist 65.6% ★, Stealth 30.1%, Simulation 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the crime and stealth aspects of the 1980s era with a focus on burglary.

The stealth genre gets turned on its head in The Marvellous Miss Take – the only heist adventure that invites you to steal with style! Use cunning, guile and the art of deception to grab the loot and escape without getting caught by the guards!

Why similar: Heist 61% ★, Stealth 39%

Why You'll Like It: A charming stealth game that emphasizes tactical movement and avoiding detection in a heist setting.

Seven: Enhanced Edition is an open-world, isometric stealth and action role-playing game, in which you play as Teriel, a master thief sent on a mission that will shake the foundations of the Vetrall Empire. Includes the Drowned Past expansion.

Why similar: Stealth 100%

Why You'll Like It: Blends isometric exploration with tactical stealth and thievery in a rich, open world.

It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.

Why similar: Stealth 67.8%, Strategy 32.2%

Why You'll Like It: Requires tactical planning and stealth to commit crimes without being caught by the authorities.

Become the best thief. Gather intel, steal things and sell them to buy hi-tech equipment. Do everything that a real thief does.

Why similar: Heist 51% ★, Stealth 33.3%, Simulation 15.7%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an immersive first-person perspective on the life of a burglar with realistic planning.

Omerta - City of Gangsters is a simulation game with tactical turn-based combat. Taking the role of a fresh-from-the-boat immigrant, with dreams of the big life, the player will work his way up the criminal hierarchy of 1920’s Atlantic City.

Why similar: Strategy 62.5%, Simulation 27.9%, Tactical 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the management and tactical combat aspects of building a criminal empire.

Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.

Why similar: Stealth 64.8%, Strategy 23.9%, Tactical 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers complex infiltration and heist-like missions in a tactical, fast-paced sci-fi setting.

Join exciting adventure of escaping from cops. Be tricky and use your skills to complete your missions in green town. If you’re successful, you can enjoy well-deserved vacation at the seaside.

Why similar: Heist 64.9% ★, Stealth 14.7%, Simulation 11%, Strategy 6.6%, Tactical 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game centered on the mechanics of breaking and entering and criminal strategy.

Company of Crime places you in the heart of 1960s London. Will you build an influential criminal empire, or head up an elite Scotland Yard task force and crack down on the rising tide of corruption? Case out targets, then dive into the melee with your hand-picked team of gangsters or detectives.

Why similar: Strategy 54%, Tactical 46%

Why You'll Like It: Combines crime management with turn-based tactical combat in a 1960s London setting.

Gone Rogue is a tactical stealth game with RPG elements. Get into the role of a thief from the city slums. Lurking in the shadows, sneak unnoticed past enemies, get behind any locked doors, and carry off rich loot.

Why similar: Heist 52.8% ★, Stealth 29.1%, Strategy 9.5%, Tactical 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Blends tactical RPG elements with stealth-based infiltration and heist missions.

Do what it takes to make your fledgling security agency thrive in this 80s noir crime bustin', dirty crossing, vengeance-seeking board game inspired strategy game with dice and cards.

Why similar: Strategy 60.9%, Simulation 39.1%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the 1980s crime aesthetic with management and investigation mechanics.

Become a military hacker and help your black ops team reach their goal in this noir cyberpunk tactical game. Scan, hack, overtake, control and manage high tech devices, vehicles and even enemy cyborgs with cutting-edge implants.

Why similar: Stealth 70.6%, Tactical 29.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features real-time-tactics and hacking, similar to the planning and execution required in Crookz.

A tense stealth game with super-powers, set in the 70s, filled with glorious fat pixels. Transform into enemies, dash, teleport, slow time and super-punch your way through this moody retro stealth game.

Why similar: Heist 66.1% ★, Stealth 33.9%

Why You'll Like It: A stealth-based heist game that focuses on infiltration and evasion in a 3D environment.

One-armed robber is a chaotic first-person heist game that centers around a uniquely challenging premise. Players take the role of a determined robber equipped with only one arm, tasked with pulling off daring heists on banks, shops, and various establishments.

Why similar: Heist 62% ★, Stealth 17%, Strategy 8.4%, Simulation 7.7%, Tactical 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative heist game that emphasizes planning and execution in a variety of scenarios.

Frigato: Shadows of the Caribbean is a challenging Real-Time Tactics stealth game set in the intriguing realm of pirates. Take command over a motley crew of sea rogues and beat the British Royal Navy to the Caribbean’s most valuable treasure.

Why similar: Stealth 49.5%, Strategy 27%, Tactical 23.5%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical stealth game that emphasizes squad positioning and real-time planning in a pirate setting.

The Swindle is a steampunk cybercrime caper about breaking into buildings, hacking their systems, stealing all their cash, and quickly running away again before the police show up.

Why similar: Heist 69% ★, Stealth 31%

Why You'll Like It: A heist-focused game with a strong emphasis on stealth and upgrade-based progression.

Perfect Heist 2 is a round-based online game, where robbers try to hide in plain sight while robbing a bank without being noticed by the cop team!

Why similar: Heist 55.9% ★, Stealth 25.6%, Strategy 11.9%, Tactical 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused heist game that emphasizes strategy, stealth, and team coordination.

Thick as Thieves is a stealth-action heist game, playable solo or with a partner in crime in co-op multiplayer. Master the art of thievery through cunning gameplay across a 4-hour campaign in this dynamic new take on stealth.

Why similar: Heist 66.6% ★, Stealth 33.4%

Burgle Bros. blends high-tension teamwork, stealth and brain-twisting puzzles.

Why similar: Heist 68.4% ★, Stealth 20.7%, Strategy 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A board-game adaptation that captures the tension of a multi-floor heist and tactical movement.

Sneak through the shadows, dash to cover, pick your moment and strike! Unleash your inner thief in this strategic stealth adventure.

Why similar: Stealth 60.5%, Strategy 39.5%

Why You'll Like It: A lighthearted stealth strategy game with a focus on tactical movement and evasion.

A House of Thieves is a level-based stealth comedy-horror game about a Thief who doesn't go shopping but instead takes his shopping list and breaks into random houses to get his things.

Why similar: Heist 55.2% ★, Stealth 25.9%, Strategy 12.2%, Tactical 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A casual stealth game focused on the mechanics of burglary and avoiding detection.

Counter Terrorist Agency lets you fight international terrorism and prevent attacks all over the world. Use modern invigilation techniques, discover connections, interrogate suspects, eliminate threats and dismantle terrorist networks.

Why similar: Strategy 58.2%, Simulation 41.8%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy strategy game centered on tactical crime prevention and surveillance.

Sneak Thief is a first person, shooter, strategy, stealth and puzzle game that lets you choose how you want to play. Use your wits and expertise to setup and perform heists whether that be by using brute force to smash your way through or by getting away without making a sound.

Why similar: Heist 49.7% ★, Stealth 37%, Strategy 13.3%

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!

Why similar: Heist 54.1% ★, Stealth 32.8%, Simulation 13.2%

Take control of three capybaras infiltrating a fashion event in this stealth puzzle game. Stack under a disguise to blend in among humans, split up to solve puzzles, avoid suspicion, and steal a legendary jewel. But be careful: one wrong move could reveal what’s really under the coat!

Why similar: Stealth 70.2%, Strategy 29.8%

Take on the role of a hardened career criminal executing intense, dynamic heists in constant pursuit of the next “big score”

Why similar: Heist 74% ★, Stealth 13.9%, Tactical 5.8%, Strategy 4.2%, Simulation 2.2%

Deserter: Prologue is a free stealth-RPG game. Use stealth, cunning, and thieving skills to escape from a military camp in the heart of a dystopian war.

Why similar: Heist 61.3% ★, Stealth 30.4%, Tactical 8.3%

Do crimes using only your camera and your crew! In Snap & Grab, any photo you take could be the key to cool crime success. Travel to exotic sandbox locations, photograph treasures and reveal threats, then combine your photos in unique ways to create a rad heist plan.

Why similar: Heist 83.7% ★, Strategy 16.3%

Dive into a wild story of gangsters and criminals where you decide the fate of the peculiar customers of a luxurious nightclub in a never-ending race against the clock.

Why similar: Strategy 54.1%, Simulation 45.9%

Reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums in this Africanfuturist heist game. Recruit crew members, plan escape routes, acquire the precious cargo, and bounce out of the joint as fast as you can.

Why similar: Heist 84% ★, Strategy 8.8%, Tactical 7.3%

Perfect Heist is a round-based online game, where the robber team tries to execute a bank robbery without getting noticed, and the cop team tries to prevent it. Robbers hide in plain sight and try to slowly infiltrate the bank while the Cops try to figure out who is a normal customer, and who is a robber!

Why similar: Heist 83% ★, Strategy 17%

Stick Em Up, is a game in which you will use your skills, your wits, and your arsenal of guns and explosives to pull off cunning, exciting, and sometimes messy heists. Watch as your skills take you from robbing lonely gas stations to the most massive banks.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

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?

Why similar: Heist 71.5% ★, Stealth 16.2%, Simulation 12.4%

Smart Thief is a 3rd person theft simulator where you are in the role of an amateur robber who steals every night from differents houses/markets.

Why similar: Strategy 57.1%, Simulation 42.9%

Welcome to DROP, a fast-paced action-strategy hacking simulator. Ready to hack your way to fame and fortune while avoiding getting caught? Use stealth and cunning to maneuver between the ongoing power struggle of corporations and factions to control the fragmented networks in the city.

Why similar: Strategy 58.5%, Simulation 41.5%

Immerse yourself in a 1930s Chicago plagued by corruption and illegal meat trafficking. In this stealth-tactics game, control Eliot Ness and his team. Exploit the environment, deceive your enemies and strike the mafia from the shadows to dismantle Al Capone's criminal empire.

Why similar: Stealth 60.5%, Strategy 30.1%, Tactical 9.4%

Get in, get the goods, get out. What could possibly go wrong? In this single-player, story-driven cyberpunk RPG, play as Alexandra - a street-smart thief on the run after a failed heist. Put together a team of unusual allies, pull off thrilling heists, and fight and hack using your deck of cards.

Why similar: Heist 83.8% ★, Strategy 16.2%

Empire of Sin is a new strategy game brought to you by Romero Games and Paradox Interactive that puts you at the heart of the ruthless criminal underworld of 1920s Prohibition-era Chicago.

Why similar: Strategy 66.7%, Tactical 20%, Simulation 13.3%

In Thief of Thieves you play as a cat burglar using stealth, social engineering and team members to pull off some high profile heists across the world. Based on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman, it’s time for Celia to make the leap from apprentice to master.

Why similar: Heist 58.2% ★, Stealth 32%, Strategy 9.8%

A co-operative multiplayer "Thieves vs. Guards" game about halting, catching and make it out with the loot!

Why similar: Heist 66.5% ★, Strategy 17.1%, Tactical 16.4%

Become a military hacker and help your black ops team reach their goal in this noir cyberpunk tactical game. Scan, hack, overtake, control and manage high tech devices, vehicles and even enemy cyborgs with cutting-edge implants.

Why similar: Strategy 50.3%, Simulation 35.4%, Stealth 9.6%, Tactical 4.6%

Unravel cyber secrets and foil mass surveillance as a skilled hacker in Hackhub. Challenge authority, rewrite the rules, and emerge as the ultimate digital rebel.

Why similar: Simulation 56.3%, Strategy 43.7%

Command a steam-driven pirate crew in a series of epic tactical shootouts in SteamWorld Heist. This is turn-based strategy with a twist: You manually aim the guns of your robots, allowing for insane skill shots and bullet-bouncing action!

Why similar: Strategy 50.7%, Heist 49.3% ★

Holy Potatoes! A Spy Story?! is a wacky spy agency sim where you manage your very own potato spy headquarters, train an elite spy team, and strategize top-secret missions while uncovering the truth behind an evil spy corporation.

Why similar: Strategy 58.6%, Simulation 41.4%

Just Another Night Shift is a casual competitive 1v1 or 2v2 PvP stealth strategy game. Play as a Thief and as a Security Guard. Steal the valuable and try to prevent it in this 3D indie game. Grab a friend and work THE NIGHT SHIFT of your life. Join us for hours of fun gameplay with your friends!

Why similar: Heist 52.2% ★, Strategy 27.4%, Stealth 20.4%

Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.

Why similar: Tactical 44.7%, Strategy 38.3%, Simulation 17%

Cyberpunk mercenaries RPG! Turn-based squad tactics with unique heist-planning strategy. Build your crew wisely; their stories will become interwoven with your own. Pull off heists with powerful cyberware, faction connections, multiclassing, weapon modding, stealth, hacking, and more!

Why similar: Stealth 51.6%, Strategy 24.5%, Tactical 23.9%

Thrilling business tycoon sim where you step into the shoes of a drug dealer in 1980s USA. Your main goal is simple: BUY LOW and SELL HIGH. Get ready for a experience where you'll combine strategy, risk-taking, and decision-making to build your criminal empire.

Why similar: Simulation 56.3%, Strategy 43.7%

Can you escape with the loot? Play as the Master Thief and steal as much as you can. Burgle houses in order to obtain some sweet, sweet loot but, be careful, do not get caught!.

Why similar: Stealth 79.6%, Simulation 20.4%

In this management tycoon game, you’ll start a criminal operation from nothing and grow it into a well-oiled money machine! Build speakeasies and illegal distilleries. Manage production chains and resource distribution. Leverage favors, chase down debtors, and bribe the police to look the other way.

Why similar: Strategy 73.7%, Simulation 26.3%