Sneaky Stealy
You and your best friend are burglars. You break in to places and steal stuff.
Make the guards look the other way while you crack the safe and hack into computers.
But watch out, or your "career" can be over any second!
It's made for 2 players, but can be played solo as well. Press 
or 'Z' to switch character.
Features:
- Procedurally generated levels, sneak and steal at a new place every time!
- Seamless save of the ongoing "career", quit and come back any time!
- Highscore is saved between "careers"
- Gamepad support
- Fun at parties!
Gotchas:
- You have to have sound on to crack the safe.
- Player 2 keys are ESDF (not WASD!)
- Don't press 'Z' unless you're playing solo!
- This is not a puzzle game. Not every level ends with you cracking the safe, sometimes you might have to make the choice to just grab a statuette and scramble. That's burglar life baby!
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Development log
- Uploaded PICO-8 cart and source codeDec 16, 2023
- Added stand-alone executablesSep 30, 2022
- v1.4 Time to Lay LowMay 06, 2021
- v1.3 Take Down CamsApr 25, 2021
- v1.2 bugfix for 2pApr 02, 2021
- v1.1 is up!Mar 28, 2021
Comments
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Not that I'm obsessed with this game or anything, but I've found a bug (or possibly a cheat?). If you rat on each other from the menu while in control of a camera console, you restart the game but whatever the flag is that allows you to view all the cameras isn't reset so you start the new game with full visibility of all cameras in a level. That carries on through as many levels as you like UNTIL you log into and out of another camera console. It makes levels easier in the sense that you have better visibility of rooms you aren't in without having to find a safe camera console to access, but if you want to maintain that benefit, it means you can't temporarily disable cameras from a console. Screenshot shows a level where I can see from both cameras while both thieves are outside.
Another bug I spotted is that if you rat on each other while you're detected (for more than a couple of seconds), when you restart the game you still have to lay low for a day in the new game so instead of starting off at $150, you start off with $98.
Not the end of the world but thought I might as well share my findings.
Gonna click through and buy you a coffee now because this is the best casual game I've played in ages.
Superthanks for the kind words, the commenting, the coffee, and of course for playing the game!!
I knew about the rat on eachother bug, but left it as no-fix because the workaround is fairly easy. The other bug with the camera console not resetting is completely new to me, a very sweet find! I'm thinking of leaving it in as a finders-keepers ;) in the spirit of gentlemanly burglary.
New high score, then I lasted another 119 days. Still loving the game.
If you're taking any suggestions for future development, I think that it would be good to have some broken-down scores. Since your daily expenses increase progressively through the course of the game, the strong likelihood (at least in my experience) is that you will hit a high score early on then ultimately dwindle down until you run out of cash. For that reason, a very high number of days, in my opinion, is as impressive as a particularly high cash score.
At the end of your game, I think it would be good if you had a breakdown of things like: -
This is an amazing breakdown of the scoring, and another excellent highscore, wow!
I totally agree with you that the scoring is very crude in the game (the highscore should probably be days instead of peak money as you've pointed out.) I'll definitely consider your suggestions, a big thanks for playing and commenting!
I bettered my high score. I don't think this game will ever get boring. Thank you!
nice! a better score in fewer days!
I LOVE this game. I didn't immediately understand the terminal that you use to control the cameras but I got the hang of it after a short while. Here's my latest (and highest score - it was so frustrating falling short of the $10k!)
that's an excellent score! there camera terminal is not the most useful, but sometimes it helps, i'm glad you figured it out! thanks for playing and commenting
I'm so confused on how to get money i keep losing
I figured it out!
really hard to figure it out though so maybe make a tutorial
hi, thanks for playing and commenting!
Nice work on figuring it out! What part would you have wanted a tutorial on? was it how to steal stuff?
like how to make money and stuff, like a guided steal session that covers everything and is easy
thanks for replying! I'll take this into consideration, just to keep expectations clear it'll maybe not for this version but def for future projects
I wish there were a leaderboard or something, I want to know what the longest career streak anyone's gotten is. It took me a couple of days but this is the highest I've gotten so far!
Obviously I love this game it's simple but so addicting I come back to it every couple of months just can't stay away lol.
that's amazing to hear, and an amazing 303 days, congrats! I'll def note your suggestion too!
what are all the objects around the house, i cant figure out what some are and what they do
hi, thanks for playing and commenting! there's a good chunk of stuff around the house that only serves as objects to hide behind from guards. If they look a certain way they will always do the same thing if that makes sense.
This is an AMAZING game, i got 10,025 cash in 65 days, pls make more games like this
That's good cash! Thanks for playing and the kind words
It would help if the walls didn't have the same color as the field of vision.
hi, thanks for playing and commenting! sorry I don't fully understand, do you mean you always want to see the layout of the house?
The walls inside of the building and the floor when under light have the same color. It's a bit confusing.
ah I see what you mean now. I'll keep that in mind, thanks for the explanation!
I wish I could takedown guards from behind but other than that this game is fantastic :)
Well it's not Sneaky Chloroformy ;)
Thanks for playing and commenting!
Such a great game. Thanks for making this. I even like the glitches like the trees in front of some windows and the fact that we see the end of our career coming.
The graphics are really cool, that's minimal pixel art and the gameplay is s.a.f. but very effective.
It would have been an 8 bit console era hit back in the days.
I played 3 or 4 hours straight of this game and I feel I'm ready now for real world burglary, calling a buddy.
Thank you for playing and commenting. Your words warms at the right time. (btw that's a solid career with 175 days!)
I also really enjoyed the impossible heists... Peaking at the windows, try something, abort and run. Very effective and satisfying gameplay !
I'm really happy you enjoy that part as well :)
Oh... I forgot to tell that the game is freezing, randomly but rapidly in the new Android app I use: Infinity. I don't see any log but if I have I'll report.
So I played the online version.
thanks for telling me, what is this "infinity"? is it the reddit app thing?
It's from the playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.dt2dev.infinity
Perhaps available on Reddit idk.
I had another p8 player before but it's not on the playstore anymore.
aha, thanks for the link!
Hi! I liked your game but I tried scanning it on Virustotal and got this:
hi, I'm very happy you liked the game!
Thanks for reporting this!
It's a known issue with games made with pico-8 that they sometimes get flagged by antivirus. I'm looking into it if there's anything I can do on my end to make this experience better.
In the meantime, if you don't feel safe downloading it, it's available in full above in as a web game. Then there's no download and no virus. The only catch is your save does not carry over.
That's OK, I just wanted to report that to you.
When are you gonna update this game? I have been playing it recently with my friend and we like it so please can u add more update into the game???
hi, thanks for playing and commenting! it brightens my old burglar soul. Sadly this game does not have any updates planned for the foreseeable future.
My brother and I played this game a couple years ago, along with "My rusty submarine" (both local co-op games) so this was a pure dose of nostalgia!
PS. I love ur games!
That makes me very happy! Thanks for playing and commenting!
Hey, sorry for not responding, i'm 16 now and when me and my brother played the games we were like 10 or 12 or something, anyways, I had no idea you responded, i'm learning coding now so I hope I could bring joy like you did!
oh man, this really brings joy to my heart. Wish you all the best with the coding, it's hard but just keep at it! I'm really excited for all the tools and things the younger generations have now when learning.
literally my two most favourite games to play with my brother, are you me from another dimension
Maybe...
Very fun, but I can't for the life of me figure out why the controls are ESDF instead of WASD.
hi, thanks for playing and commenting!
(Keymap is the default in the engine the game is made in, pico-8, at the time of development there were no way of changing it, that's the reason :)
Had a lot of fun with this game, played it with a bunch of buddies while goofing off after class. Was wondering though, is there any way to escape a guard after being caught?
this warms my old burglar heart, thank you for sharing!
If only one of you get caught, the other one can escape and pay bail to continue, but that's the only way. It's hard for burglars nowadays.
i hope u won't abandon the game yet and will add more features ❤
how to crack the safe ??
hi, thanks for playing and commenting!
There's a little knack yo open the safe, you need to have the sound on and then listen with your best burglar ears...
Thank u so much for creating such awesome game. I spent whole day with my buddy today playing it and we really enjoyed. You know today there are very few games like this , simple and exciting at the same time (kinda classic arcades [Ps : I love arcades] )
this warms my old burglar heart to hear, thank you so much!
day 69, nice!
What an amazing game, it's really a special type of fun that I'll never have enough of. Just wish it had more features like having ways to spend our money for stuff like lock picks and it'll be golden.
Hopefully you give it some update soon, my new favorite Pico-8 game :)
hi! thanks for playing and for the kind words, warms my burglar heart. :)
Why do I have to waste money on laying low for a day every time I start a new game?
well, if you had a stable economy to begin with there'd be no reason to go burglering ;)
I thought that was a bug. I observed it only happen when I lose the previous game by getting caught (both guys busted or can't afford bail). If I loose by running out of money while skipping targets, I start new game without missing out on the first day.
that do sounds like a bug tho 😅
thanks for the explain!
I like this game
I like this comment
Great game! We had a fun evening playing it with some buddies😁
that warms my burglar heart! thanks for playing and commenting!
boy, with that inflation it is no wonder people start stealing
Right?! We're all just honest burglars trying to get by
why 'sdfe' and not 'asdw'?
Good question. It's the engine used (pico-8) that has this as default, and it's not possible to change. If I'd wanted to change it I have to do my own mapping, but it would only work for the web version, and then I'd have to deal with instructing different keys for web and the downloaded versions. Which I rather not do.
Thanks for playing and commenting!
Oh yeah, there's an emulator for google play store called P8 player and i dunno if it's something with your game or with it being outdated, but it only runs about half the game. (No pre-hit info, sound is completely broken and text is half-broken.) Would you mind having a look? Love the game!
(I myself am not a big pico-8 nerd so i 'm not sure what the issue is.)
thanks for letting me know! I'll make time soon to see if there's anything I can do.
If it’s not too much trouble would it be possible to get a .p8 for those of us who have a handheld that doesn’t have wifi? Please and thank you. =)
hello! I uploaded the p8.png, would that suffice?
Much appreciated but the emulator will only run .p8 which you get from the pico-8 carts folder after saving.
I uploaded the p8 too now. Happy burglerin'! :)
(I'm curious, what emulator and handheld you are using?)
Thank you kindly. =)
I’m running MinUI’s Pico-8 on an Anbernic RG35xx.
omg, that's awesome!
It's easy for a burglars to get used to the high-life ;)
Thanks for playing and commenting, makes me happy.
is there any way to escape the cops?
hi, thanks for playing!
If one of your burglars are still on the loose you can escape and pay bail to continue to play (if you have enough money). If both burglars are caught the game is over.
ok thanks for telling me
So simple, and yet so good. My second favorite game on itch
oh you heart burglar you! thanks for playing and commenting!
I think the safe is broken because there is no differ in the pitch and when I think I have it, the light turns red.
hi, thanks for playing! thanks for the report, just so I understand correctly: when you think you have unlocked it, you press up to open, but it goes red?
I can't tell if I have unlocked it or not since the sound for you to push the left or right arrow key doesn't seem to change for me
hi, sorry for the late response When you have unlocked the safe with the correct code it will start showing a green light. If the red light is showing you'd have to start over.
how would one rob a safe or hack a computer if its a part of a guards path. is there like a item i can buy to restrain a guard? also i love the hit and run strategy with statuettes
hi! thanks for playing, so guards have hearing and can be made go in different directions (it's random). But sometimes the head security has just done such a great job that it's just impossible, then it's better live to burgler another day! GL
So i found a bug where the guard got stuck in a wall here's some images:
He was only walking up and down forever
thanks for the report! they do be silly sometimes.
Very cool game i played it for hours and learned all tricks in the game >:)
hi! that's great! what do you think of disabling cameras? useful or nah?
VEEERY useful, when i discovered that you can disable cameras i literally became millionaire
haha niCE! I'm happy you enjoy the game!
How would you er use the wierd moniter thing the 4 screens
hi, it's supposed to be a cam control, so you can both see what the cameras see and you can also turn them off while you stand there. Cameras themselves have a little light to indicate whether they are on or off. Happy burglerin'!
But how would you turn off the cameras as you are there, is it like the green thing is the monitor selection and if you press up it turns of the camera? And if its black its off?
that is exactly right! but you can only turn off one camera at the time, and if you happen to select it again it will become active again. You can disable the camera of you go up to it with burglar nr 2 ;)
ah, good to know. i thought is was just some game humor showing some pong game.
oh, that's an impressive day count! straight A's in burglar school!
The way you open the safe is push either left or right and keep pushing it until you hear a higher pitch and when you do, push the opposite key and keep doing that until the light turns green, then push the up key
I can not figure out how to open the safe
Hi, thanks for playing!
To open a safe you need sound on. Then imagine you put your ear to the safe's door and try turn the wheel left or right, just like in the old gangster movies.
OK, thanks
damn this is fire
🙌🙌
Hello ironchest, i've been inlove with this game for a while, can you make it downloadable? so atleast i could play it offline
thanks for playing!
Your highscore and saved game would not be transferable between the stand-alone and web version, would that be okay?
absolutely! i love this game so much and i'm fine with it
Files added, just hit me up if you run into problems! Happy burglerin'
love the game but can't figure out how to open safes
hi! you need sound on, and then listen for the different clicks, just as any real burglar would