Trials of the Thief-Taker

This is a gamebook of excellent prose and painstaking attention to detail, which will leave you with a better understanding of 18th century London life. Almost as good as hopping in a time machine. Highly recommend!

Relatively short but absolutely brilliant.

I will give this one 4.5/5 if I can. This is a complete package. This game feel complete compare to some other COG games. However, it has a common issue with a lot of other COG games: the ending part is rush. You can easily tell that the last 2-3 chapters out of 10 chapters are going fast and the decision becomes way easy. You choose to become the crime leader, you will become one. It doesn’t have the resistance to make any decision at the end part while in the early you have 50/50 chance to not being able to catch thieves, which make it more realistic and fun. Overall complete and fun. I just wish the author either extend the later chapters to make it feel more complete or cut some chapters and detailed other chapters instead.

I'm going to have to disagree with some other reviewers. I had a very fun time with this one. The major point in its favor is how many choices there are in this game and how they all interact with each other is pretty great. I've now played three times. The first I played as a corrupt money grubber, the second time I played as Falstafian drunkard who always tried to do the right thing be damned the consequences, and the third time I played as a self-righteous fighter for the law. Not only did such decisions give me (obviously) very different endings, but decisions built upon each other and each play through led to vastly different subplots and threads. So often I find that many of these choice games barely register your choices and so I was very pleased with how dynamic the story was in taking into account of my decisions. Its not quite deserving of a five. The characters are generally thinly sketched, but this is a game about role playing and I found it fun and well worth the download.

Just like a Choose Your Own Adventure book but more engaging. Solid writing and good choices

The description implies that romance options are available, and that the story goes far more in depth than it truly does. I played this story through 6 times- same basic story each time and NO romance. Disappointed...

Not a bad game, though it did feel rushed and lacked the depth of other choice of games. The relationships felt shallow, the romances were almost nonexistent in many respects, and I didn't care for my character the way I have in the past with other interactive fiction games. It was an interesting concept that felt as if it lacked the depth of a complete experience.