Spirited Thief

Koi Snowman Games · Ishtar Games

Released: Sep 19, 2023
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Last updated: 14 Sep 2026, 09:03 GMT

Updates & announcements

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02 Apr 2025Developer post
Patch 1.0.0.10
Hello Thieves! A new hotfix is available, bringing a fix for a nasty bug reported by a player this week. Bugfix: The detailed description of skills in the shop are now correctly displayed when using a gamepad/keyboard The tooltips are now correctly displayed in the levels selecti
Hello Thieves!
A new hotfix is available, bringing a fix for a nasty bug reported by a player this week.
Bugfix:

The detailed description of skills in the shop are now correctly displayed when using a gamepad/keyboard
The tooltips are now correctly displayed in the levels selection screen when using a gamepad/keyboard
Don't forget to update your game!
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14 Jan 2025Developer post
Patch: 1.0.0.9
Hello Thieves! This update contains a small fix to loot phase checkpoints. Fixes Using "Restart from last checkpoint" during loot phase restarts from the start of loot phase instead of the start of scout phase. Xec rune state is also correctly kept. Thank you for reading!
Hello Thieves!
This update contains a small fix to loot phase checkpoints.
Fixes

Using "Restart from last checkpoint" during loot phase restarts from the start of loot phase instead of the start of scout phase. Xec rune state is also correctly kept.
Thank you for reading!
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22 Jul 2024Developer post
PixElated Adventures will feature Spirited Thief!
Welcome back Thieves! We're thrilled to announce that Spirited Thief will be participating in the PixElated Fest from July 29th to August 5th! 🔥🔥 PixElated is a digital festival celebrating beautiful pixel art games. From retro-style classics to contemporary indie gems, this ev
02 Apr 2024Developer post
TurnBasedThursdayFest is just around the corner
Welcome back Thieves! We're thrilled to announce that Spirited Thief will be participating in the TurnBasedThursday Fest from April 4-8th. This event is a five-day online festival celebrating turn-based video games. Thank you for reading! You can follow the game on Twitter and jo
22 Nov 2023Developer post
Patch: 1.0.0.8
Hello Thieves! This update focus on abilities, with a new unique abilities for each of your companions! But there's also buffs to existing abilities that were a little undertuned. Unlockable abilities in the shop are not meant to replace the starting ones - and are often more spe
Hello Thieves!
This update focus on abilities, with a new unique abilities for each of your companions! But there's also buffs to existing abilities that were a little undertuned. Unlockable abilities in the shop are not meant to replace the starting ones - and are often more specialized - but they still need to relevant!
Abilities

One new loyalty ability for Besk, Iwie and Sunyang
Pet rat: range melee -> 3. Pet rat is about making pickpocket more convenient, so a little more convenience was needed to justify its use.
Chaos Strike: 1 -> 0 action cost, and is now "quick". Chaos strike has already a lot of restriction to its use (melee, and at high danger only), so it could use some love.
Decoy: 5 -> 3 turn cooldown.
Spirit Curse: 2 -> 3 uses.
Deadly Nightmare Curse: 1 -> 2 uses.
Fear Curse: 2 -> 3 uses.
Chaos Glyph: 2 -> 3 uses.
Fear Glyph: 2 -> 3 uses.
Hook: 1 -> 0 action cost.
Disguise: 1 -> 0 action cost, added a 5 turns cooldown. Since using disguise has now some real downside (being close to a guard will reveal it), the action cost was excessive. Instead the cooldown make it a commitment for a couple of turns.
Caltrops: 1 -> 0 action cost.
Madboom: 1 -> 0 action cost, and is now "quick".
Changes

Easy difficulty setting now has reduced guards and simpler puzzle by default (like Story difficulty setting)
Soul lantern: minor changes to the anti-Besk boulder.
Spider Burrows: only one enemy is possessed instead of 3.
Spider Burrows: modified the "suicidal" cutthroat's patrol path so that she doesn't jump into a trap.
Fixes

Pushed enemies correctly trigger traps.
Evil spirits can now target tiles with smoke.
Trin could get blocked while using long range teleport.
Cave: enemies don't forget their patrol after a rewind.
Cave: music isn't stopped after a rewind.
Guards' tower: Trin/Dumdum can't trigger the office cutscene.
Thank you for reading! You can follow the game on Twitter and join the Discord community!
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27 Oct 2023Developer post
Patch: 1.0.0.7
Hello Thieves! A lot of difficulty tweaks are added in this patch, but also quality of life changes and bug fixes! The ritual level has also been entirely redone to give it a little extra oomph. Difficulty Added new difficulty option that reduce the number of guards and simplify
Hello Thieves!
A lot of difficulty tweaks are added in this patch, but also quality of life changes and bug fixes! The ritual level has also been entirely redone to give it a little extra oomph.
Difficulty

Added new difficulty option that reduce the number of guards and simplify puzzles, which is active by default on story mode
Story mode now has 14 turns between danger level increase (from 12)
Burrow Spiders: one cutthroat is possessed instead of a sharpshooter
Guard's tower: made the second-to-last floor easier
Shop attack: replaced Xec runes with Nes runes, and made top corridor easier - with more leeway.
Added bells to level that didn't have them: Shop attack (2), Burrow spiders (2), Guard's tower (2),
Quality of Life

Hidden buttons that have been inspected now have a map hint
Trin's curses and glyphs can now be toggled by reusing them again on the same target.
Changes

Ritual level redone, it is now more survival than puzzle oriented, and introduce new mechanics more clearly.
Besk's disguise doesn't slow him anymore, but is lost when walking next to a guard.
Bug fix

Curses could be lost after a rewind
Glyphs could be kept even after deselecting their ability in the shop
Sorceresses' spell rotation could get messed up during loot phase
Thieves could get instant killed by non-enraged guards in various situations
Guard's tower: the last floor's dialog could trigger too soon after a rewind
Guard's tower: blue area (access to last floor) wasn't correctly cleared
Shop attack: removed a possible cheese with Besk
Besk can't use TP orbs anymore
Guard vision cone would not correctly display on barriers, reinforced doors, locked doors, and alarmed doors.
Twitch integration would not work correctly when connecting using the channel url rather than the channel name
Thank you for reading! You can follow the game on Twitter and join the Discord community!
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20 Oct 2023Developer post
Spirited Thief is now Verified on Steam Deck!
Hello Thieves! Today, we are extremely happy to announce Spirited Thief is now Verified on Steam Deck ! We've got the green check, so you could enjoy your missions from the comfort of your couch, bed or favourite means of transport. A new update has been also released, take a loo
20 Oct 2023Developer post
Patch: 1.0.0.6
Hello Thieves! New bug fixes and changes for the 1.0.0.6 update, as well as the verified status for Steam Deck! Steam Deck Default resolution on Steam deck is now 1280x800. Button icons in controls in settings have been redrawn/modified to make the font bigger. Keyboard/mouse gly
Hello Thieves!
New bug fixes and changes for the 1.0.0.6 update, as well as the verified status for Steam Deck!
Steam Deck

Default resolution on Steam deck is now 1280x800.
Button icons in controls in settings have been redrawn/modified to make the font bigger.
Keyboard/mouse glyphs are only shown on mouse click or keyboard press event.
Added a virtual keyboard to input text for twitch integration fields.
Changes

Ruby: fix sentinels would temporarily forget to go check the distraction if they were not alerted.
Thieves' Guild: added a trap to stop a possible exploit with Besk
Malachite: added an obstacle to stop a possible exploit with Besk (it's always Besk)
Sunyang's shop disappear on any thieves' ability use, to prevent swapping abilities exploits.
Cave: added a shop
Icons for locked doors now appear even when not zoomed out
Bug fix

Sleeping guards' tooltip is correctly displayed in fog of war
Ravens: shop would disappear during scout phase
Spikes, exit tiles and sigils could be removed by blood/glyphs.
Shop attack: fixed leaking roof
hunters don't gain vision of the player when bumping into them while walking through another guard's position
Moving through an ally while standing on a trap would trigger the trap and cancel the movement
Fix typos
Thank you for reading! You can follow the game on Twitter and join the Discord community!
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17 Oct 2023Developer post
Get Ishtar Games Bundle!
Hello Thieves and welcome to our world! Today, we are excited to announce the launch of a new bundle with three of our games, allowing all players to get them at a lower price thanks to a 15% discount ! Ishtar Games Bundle: Enjoy our games! We wish you the best of luck to make th
10 Oct 2023PC Gamer
Excellent stealth game Spirited Thief was so sneaky it came out on Steam and nobody noticed
It feels oddly fitting that a stealth game would sneak out almost completely unseen in the midst of this year’s deluge of big game releases. This one is especially unassuming at first glance, with cute but slightly stiff sprites and a functional but bland UI, but it would be a mi
10 Oct 2023PC Gamer
This excellent stealth game was so sneaky it came out on Steam and nobody noticed
It feels oddly fitting that a stealth game would sneak out almost completely unseen in the midst of this year’s deluge of big game releases. This one is especially unassuming at first glance, with cute but slightly stiff sprites and a functional but bland UI, but it would be a mi
28 Sep 2023Developer post
Patch: 1.0.0.5
Hello Spirits and Thieves! The 1.0.0.5 update brings bug fixes and a new way to check your looting progress during a level! Changes In-game menu now also shows a summary of all loot in the level, to let you quickly check your progress for both scouting and collecting every availa
Hello Spirits and Thieves!
The 1.0.0.5 update brings bug fixes and a new way to check your looting progress during a level!
Changes

In-game menu now also shows a summary of all loot in the level, to let you quickly check your progress for both scouting and collecting every available loot.
Smoother enemies' vision cone when they are moving
Ravens: Sunyang leaves after the player starts moving into the level (it was possible to swap skills after the level started).
Shop Attack: 2 sharpshooters are now asleep to give more time to deal with them.
Map hints of loot have now more priority than map hints of enemies. For example, a sleeping guard carrying loot will now be displayed as loot in fog of war
Bug fix

Max loot in in-game gold summary tooltip was too high.
Thieves won't auto-close locked doors that they wouldn't be able to reopen afterward (when they don't have the key for it)
Alerted guards who got their key stolen could get stuck on a locked door
On a few specific levels, music would stop playing or the wrong music would be played after a rewind
Sharpshooters correctly entrench after being feared
Possessed sharpshooters correctly enrage when alerted
Drunk or lazy sharpshooters correctly kill players that stay immobile in their sight
Evil spirits would target but not attack characters standing in a doorway
Evil spirits created from possessed enemies could spawn on top of furniture
Throwing Knife description had an incorrect range
Scouted loot in fog of war correctly have a tooltip when hovered
Ruby: the sentinels cannot forget the distraction anymore (it could happen if something else happened to them)
Rarely, alarm would be too high after a rewind
Thank you for reading! You can follow the game on Twitter and join the Discord community!
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27 Sep 2023Developer post
Play Spirited Thief on Steam Deck
Hello Thieves, 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!
21 Sep 2023Developer post
Did you enjoy Spirited Thief?
Greetings Guild members! 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
19 Sep 2023Developer post
Spirited Thief is OUT NOW!
Greetings Guild members! 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 treasur
07 Sep 2023GamingOnLinux
Tactical turn-based stealth game Spirited Thief releases September 19
Spirited Thief looks pretty sweet. A tactical turn-based stealth game with a twist, where you take your time to scout ahead and plan your heist as your ghostly friend, then use your knowledge to break in and break out with pricey loot. Read the full article here:
28 Aug 2023Developer post
Skills and Characters of Spirited Thief
Greetings Guild members! 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
16 Aug 2023Developer post
Spirited Thief will be released on September 19th!
Hello Thieves! 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.
04 Aug 2023Developer post
Spirited Thief is at Tiny Teams' festival!
Hello everyone, We are pleased to announce Spirited Thief is featured in the Tiny Teams' festival! Visit the page of the festival: 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
25 Jul 2023Developer post
Update: 0.44.2
A small but very annoying bug sneaked in the last update. Thank you for your reports! Bug fix Fixed: some pop-ups would not close
A small but very annoying bug sneaked in the last update. Thank you for your reports!
Bug fix

Fixed: some pop-ups would not close
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Updates & announcements

Fixes

Abilities

Changes

Fixes

Difficulty

Quality of Life

Changes

Bug fix

Steam Deck

Changes

Bug fix

Ishtar Games Bundle:

Changes

Bug fix

Spirited Thief is officially OUT!

Bug fix