we hope you're liking Spirited Thief! For Steam Deck players, we're very happy to confirm that the game is fully playable on Steam Deck! So, if you haven't tried it already, you can play the game from anywhere you want!
Spirited Thief
Play Spirited Thief on Steam Deck
we hope you're liking Spirited Thief! For Steam Deck players, we're very happy to confirm that the game is fully playable on Steam Deck! So, if you haven't tried it already, you can play the game from anywhere you want!
Did you enjoy Spirited Thief?
As you may be already exploring Spirited Thief's multiple levels and stealing all the treasures alongside Trin, we would love to hear about your experience with the game!
If you're among the players enjoying Spirited Thief so far, please consider taking a moment to write a review, it is truly valuable for Koi Snowman Games who solo-developed this game.
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Spirited Thief is OUT NOW!
Is your gear ready? Your skills are set? Scouting and sneaking all mapped out in your mind? Because Trin and Elaj are both eager to start their new missions together since...
Spirited Thief is officially OUT!
Explore multiple levels, steal all the treasures you can take, make a mistake, rewind, fail, try again, find new ways to succeed, change your skillset or adjust the game difficulty at any time! Spirited Thief offers you many possibilities to experience its story.
Wait, did you hear about the Mages?! There's definitely something you'll need to investigate...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1709870/Spirited_Thief/
We've been working on Spirited Thief for close to three years and we cannot wait to see you all play the game! Enjoy Spirited Thief, fail, succeed and share your thoughts!
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Skills and Characters of Spirited Thief
Spirited Thief is a game mixing up tactic and stealth, where you have two objectives: remain undetected by the guards and steal the protected treasures.
To do so, you can count on Trin and Elaj: one is a spirit capable of scouting the place and teleport on a short range, the other is a thief with a particular set of skills, perfect to steal keys and navigate between the guards.
But that's not all! As you progress in the game, you will unlock 3 new characters ready to join your crew of thieves, each with their own skills!
At the start of each mission, you'll be able to choose which duo you want to have with Elaj, and which skills you want both of them to have. If their current skills does not meet your needs, take a look at Sunyang's shop and buy fresh new skills, or change their current set with the skills you previously bought!
With each character having different skills, you are free to choose how you want to approach the missions: is killing guards the best way to do it? Maybe Besk's teleport can be useful? Or would you rather protect your escape and interrupt the guards chasing after you?
Of course, Trin the spirit also has his own set of skills! The scouting phase may reserve you some surprises, and you better be ready and adapt to each mission.
Which character will you prefer? Which skill will be your new favourite? You'll get to tell us all that at the release of Spirited Thief on September 19!
If you are curious about the creation of Spirited Thief and what you can expect from the game, take a look at this blogpost!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1709870/Spirited_Thief/
Thank you for reading! You can wishlist Spirited Thief, follow the game on Twitter and join the Discord community!
Spirited Thief will be released on September 19th!
We're very excited to finally announce the release date for Spirited Thief! After more than 2 years of development, our little game is ready!
Spirited Thief will be released on September 19th, so just a month left to wait to follow the adventures of Elaj and Trin.
For the occasion, we made a brand new trailer!
https://youtu.be/8_e391Dmp0k
And if you haven't already, don't forget to wishlist the game on Steam to be notified of its release!
It's been quite the journey making this (not so) little game, but we're very proud of the final result, and we can't wait for you to experience it on September 19th! :)
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Spirited Thief is at Tiny Teams' festival!
We are pleased to announce Spirited Thief is featured in the Tiny Teams' festival!
Visit the page of the festival: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/tinyteamsfestival2023
Spirited Thief's demo is also playable on Steam Deck.
Thank you for reading! You can wishlist Spirited Thief, follow the game on Twitter and join the Discord community!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1709870/Spirited_Thief/
Update: 0.44.2
Bug fix
- Fixed: some pop-ups would not close
Update: gamepad and localization
The 0.44 update brings French & German localization to Spirited Thief AND full gamepad support!
Spirited Thief will now try to use your system's language by default. Of course, you can change your preferred language at any time in the options menu.
We did a lot of under-the-hood changes to provide proper support to gamepad. Some of the new features will also benefits mouse and keyboard users. For example, the UI can now be fully used with a keyboard or a gamepad.
A new ability wheel allows quick access to every trick of your thieves.
We also reworked the shop UI for better navigation and clarity.
That's all for today. Thank you for reading!
Bringing Spirited Thief to life
My name is Simon Nowak and I am the solo developer on Spirited Thief, a game I have been working on for about two years and a half. It's been quite an adventure and I got to learn lots of new things along the way!
First, allow me to introduce you to Spirited Thief, a tactical stealth game where you need to steal treasures by playing a Spirit and a Thief (thus the name!).
The first phase with the spirit (Trin) lets you explore the place. When the infiltration begins with the thief (Elaj), use the information you gathered with Trin to avoid the guards and steal everything you need in order to complete your mission. Each level is a mission, with its own objective(s) and motivations.
Making a stealth game
The stealth genre is truly something I love and whenever I can, I always play stealthy characters in games that allow it. However, I can get frustrated when stealth gameplay often translates to "never get seen or you lose". I feel like there is more to it than restarting or reloading every single time something unexpected happens.
To me, stealth games is about information. You need to know as much as possible about your enemy if you want to avoid direct confrontation: where they are, what they do, what they may do... while preventing them from doing the same about you!
But this is also true on a strategic level: where do I have to go, which places should I avoid, what should I do, where is my target, what are the biggest obstacles... I feel that this is not often the spotlight in stealth games. Yet, crafting your plans to pull off a heist despite dauting security measures is one of the most satisfying things to do!
Unsurprisingly, this is one of the main focuses in Spirited Thief. Because Trin's a spirit, you can explore the map entirely at your pace before starting your infiltration but there's a catch: you better make good use of this headstart, because you're gonna need it when you run out of time!
What to expect from Spirited Thief?
A lot of challenges! The story of Elaj and Trin is divided into three Acts and will explore their strength, shortcomings, friendships and how they play the cards they are dealt with. You will face multiple enemies, boss fights, puzzles, and strange security devices... that you may be able to turn to your advantage!
One important thing to me is to encourage players to experiment things, because this is how you learn to play Spirited Thief. Of course, things will go wrong and this is totally fine! Small mishaps can be dealt with and you can even salvage big fiascos (to a certain extent of course). Play with your limits! One of the core values of Spirited Thief is to allow the player to tailor the game's difficulty to their need: the sweetspot where it's rewarding and not too punishing.
In addition to that, at any moment you can adapt the difficulty of the game to your needs: either by choosing a preset or by changing a few specific things.
Thank you for reading! You can wishlist Spirited Thief, follow the game on Twitter and join the Discord community!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1709870/Spirited_Thief/
DevBlog: Portraits update & Skills rework
The development of Spirited Thief is going very well, and several things have changed now. Allow us to describe what's new in the game, we are going to detail them just below!
Portraits update
First, we'll talk about the visual rework of Trin and Elaj. They are both the main characters of the game (one being a Spirit and the other a Thief) and since we wanted them to truly stand out from the crowd, they both received a very nice upgrade!
Their reworks have been applied to their portraits and their character models.
By doing this rework, we found out other characters would also need a slightly improved visual and… that’s what we did! With these changes, the following portraits now follow the same size, style and level of detail applied to Trin & Elaj:
- Besk
- Guards
- Countess Frieda
- Sorceress
- Temly
- Two colleagues of Elaj (Prologue)
- Dumdum (portrait + character rework)
Skills rework
In addition to the portraits update, we decided to improve and diversify the different skills you’ll get to use in Spirited Thief. Some of them were only useful during specific circumstances, and others were just way less efficient in all respects.
So, we reworked these skills and added new ones that could be useful during your missions. We want to give players the ability to create the build they’d love and grant enough room for you to adapt to every situation.
Here are a few examples:
Elaj
- Knock Knock → Pet Rat (Rework): Drop a trained rodent on the ground that will steal everything from the next guard walking by (yes, even Keys).
- Stun Spirit → Shadow Decoy (Rework): Create an illusion that will keep guards busy until they quickly shoot it down, alerting them.
Trin
- Lazy Tracking Curse (New Skill): Mark (visible in fog of war) a Sleeping target. The mark stays active even after the target wakes up. Can affect at most 5 target(s).
Besk
- Guard Disguise (New Skill): Equip or unequip cumbersome guard’s disguise which allows to move undetected, albeit slowly and with low vision. The disguise is lost on using any ability, or by doing a suspicious activity in a guard’s sight. The disguise won’t fool enemies that shoot on sight.
A lot more skills have been reworked or added to the characters, but we are not going to disclose them all today! Some things are being kept secret for now…
Balancing the difficulty
One thing important to us is to let every player enjoy their own difficulty level. Those playing for the Story have the opportunity to do so, but those who are looking to be chased by a thousand guards and escape at the last turn possible can do that too.
Through the Menu, the difficulty of the game can be changed at any time and you can even make specific adjustments to have a customized experience.
A feature has also been expanded to other levels: the Bells.
Bells are available in specific levels allowing you to decrease the Alarm Level of the guards. Reaching a Bell might be a complicated task sometimes, so you will have to weigh the pros and cons on going on this adventure!
we are giving you the choice to use them or not. Again, the difficulty is yours!
That is all for today’s blogpost, thank you for reading and do not hesitate to wishlist Spirited Thief! We have a lot more things planned for the game that we will share with you in the coming months, up until the release in Summer 2023.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1709870/Spirited_Thief/
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