Mobile Game of the Week: Tiny Thief (Android, iOS)
Playing as a thief isn’t exactly a novel concept—especially when you look at the amount of games that involve sneaking around that have come out in just the past year or two. Add in the fact that every other game in the App Store today uses Rovio’s tired three-star stage completion format and you might pass over Tiny Thief without blinking an eye. But you really shouldn’t—you’d be passing up not only one of the cutest iOS games of the year, but also a thoroughly entertaining point-and-click adventure game.
Tiny Thief doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but when your game has the charm and personality of a Pixar film, it hardly matters. You play as a kid thief who—along with his pet ferret—make it through each stage by sneaking past guards and snatching things along the way. In one stage you’ll be setting free an oppressed little piggy. In another you’ll be helping the villagers overthrow the bullying town sheriff. It’s all done in gloriously smooth animation and beautiful hand-crafted art. Despite the game being broken up into individual stages, the game is also broken up into chapters so that you are often working toward a single goal or following a small storyline (or a bigger one, towards the end of the game).
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