Last updated on February 12th, 2026 at 10:00 pm
Thieves' Gambit: Black Cat – Adventure Game Review
Thieves' Gambit: Black Cat is a Adventure/Roleplaying/Books game from Choice of Games LLC, first launched in 16th October 2014.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 13+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Thieves' Gambit: Black Cat Stand Out
You're the world's greatest jewel thief! Well, second greatest. But if you and your team of talented crooks can steal the Black Cat, the world's unluckiest diamond, you'll be legendary!
“Thieves’ Gambit: The Curse of the Black Cat” is an interactive heist caper by Dana Duffield, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based–without graphics or sound effects–and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Play as male or female; gay, straight, or bi. Choose your methods and your motives. Will you be an honorable thief or a ruthless criminal? A technical genius or a master of disguise? Who can you trust, and who will you double-cross?
The Black Cat has never been stolen, its previous owners all having died under improbably unfortunate circumstances. Break into the palace of San Castellano, pinch the gem, evade the relentless Inspector Leclerc and get away before you succumb to the Curse of the Black Cat!
• 100,000-word tale of adventure and intrigue
• Fast cars
• High fashion
• State-of-the-art spy gadgets
• Double-cross or be double-crossed
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Thieves' Gambit: Black Cat is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th January 2026
Recent improvements include:
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Download & Availability
Thieves' Gambit: Black Cat is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Thieves' Gambit: Black Cat on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Sometimes Im in the mood for a Choice of Robots style game where every choice we make very perceptibly changes the story and the whole thing takes a while. Sometimes, though, we want something quick and fast we can get through in under an hour and where we can see where everythings going to go. Thats what happened here – its not a long game by any means, and from our few play throughs nothing really changes too much based on what you do. Im not even sure our stats truly mattered in the end because no matter what we did we seemed to fumble the same parts. That said, the story is cute. The characters arent that fleshed out but all play a Heist Role that youre probably used to seeing in Heist movies and shows like Leverage. And in the end, we had a good time – and thats what matters, right.
We think this story is okay, not good but wont let you regret to purchase as well. Little too linear and too much characters show up in a short time. Not so catchy.
Frankly, we really enjoyed this one. It could have been more involved, but we liked it anyway.
A very well written story, however most of your choices are Kinda meaningless especially in the beginning.. Although we did play it several times but we think your choices should impact the game more. Overall very satisfied with our purchase and definitely recommend it.
It wasn't absolutely awful, but the story was boring and the plot twist could be seen from a mile away.
We really like this game, but in the new update we have had a problem where the custom names do not appear in the text or in the status bar.
Excellent choices humor and a great story a lot of fun replayed almost 20 times now.
We wish a big game company would make a game like this where it's a fun story, you can choose if you want to play as a man or woman, and pick your allegiances. Would buy the next chapter if there is another.
A rather enjoyable title from CoG if we do say so ourselves. Decent length, a good selection of choices, not to hard to get through the skill check points so long as you play to your strengths. Two romancable characters, and a nice twist at the end.
This week it looks like we received two treats from CoG. While one was a heavy historical tale, this one is a lot more lighthearted and fun. Your character is the second best thief in the world and in order to prove that you are the best it is up to you to hire some old compatriots and steal the Black Cat diamond (Pink Panther reference anyone?). The characters aren't very fleshed out in the story. They all represent a particular skill that you might not have. There are some romance opportunities and the whole thing felt a bit like Ocean's 11 which is a good thing. It seems like there is a little bit more going on than just the caper which is nice. We like how it hits all the familiar tropes of its genre. We were entertained and wanted to see where it went, but wasn't incredibly blown away. Took about one and a half hours to go through it on our first play through but we don't feel compelled to replay it to see what might change. Wouldn't mind a sequel tho. :) Maybe one where we can choose people on our team from a bigger pool of options. And perhaps a bit more to do when planning and executing the heist.
Well written and creative, but short and replay value is limited. It took us about 30-40 min to get through it the first time; about 20 max for replays. It's very easy and pretty linear — which is nice but also boring; there's not much of a point to replaying since you got it all right the first time and tbh the choices don't seem to matter that much. We did like the game and we'd buy it again, but we think part of that is because new COG games are pretty scarce these days. It was good, but not as good as some of the others have been.
SPOILERS: In several circumstances we found that a wrong scene would occur. Willingly forming a relationship with Bouchard and then the next scene being that we shot him? Don't think that's very conducive to a relationship.
We would have liked this more if it were longer. We felt like we reached the ending fairly quickly, to the point where our "stats" really had no bearing on the story at all. The story seems to hint at a sequel, which might fix the aforementioned issue. But given that this is an app you have to pay for in the first place, we feel as if this still doesn't make up for the fact that we didn't get our money's worth.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.8
- Size: 27.34 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
- Developer: Choice of Games LLC
Last updated: 8th January 2026 | Genre: Adventure, Roleplaying | Developer: Choice of Games LLC