The Guild of Thieves -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author(s): Rob Steggles Genre: Fantasy Website: http://www.strandgames.​com Language: en First Publication Date: 1987 License: Commercial Rating: 4.5 (based on 26 ratings) ABOUT THE STORY Steal yourself a world of fantasy WHY BUY THIS GAME WHEN YOU CAN STEAL IT ? Except you can't. Not yet. An amateur like you? Come off it! Now, if you were a fully paid-up member of the notorious Guild of Thieves, things would be different... Mind you, it's not easy. You might find yourself ditched on a remote jetty by the Guildmaster. You might find that the Guild expects you to ransack a well guarded mansion. To go grave-robbering. Potholing. Or maybe - if they're really doubtful of your abilities - everything at once! No problem, really, in a country full of helpful natives and friendly wildlife. Trouble is, you're not in a country like that ! You're in Kerovnia. Except that the place seems to have gone downhill since then...But you'll find that out for yourself soon enough. And just one final hint; don't try any funny stuff. The Guildmaster has seen it all before. So has the Gatekeeper. So has he...But why should we give you any hints? Guild of Thieves, from Magnetic Scrolls, the people who wrote The Pawn, winners of numerous major awards. Graphic illustrations to blow your socks off. Puzzles to blow your brains out. Frankly, we doubt that you're up to it... EXTERNAL LINKS Play Online Play this game in your Web browser. EDITORIAL REVIEWS Crash > "Inside is a game more than likely to live up to everyone's expectations. As > a burglar, complete with stripy sweat shirt and swag bag, you have applied > for membership of the Kerovnian Guild of Thieves. To prove your criminal > eligibility to join, the Master Thief has devised a test: explore an island > and thoroughly sack it of all available treasure before returning. > > The adventure begins in the Master Thief's boat. You jump confidently to the > jetty and begin a survey of the expansive countryside. The numerous > locations range from castle to cave and from scrub to snow-capped peak. The > descriptions, even without the graphics much-praised on other formats, are > extremely atmospheric; even the most commonplace objects have their own > characteristics. Exploration has some very realistic qualities: as you > wander through the castle you can run your fingers casually along the piano > keys or try your skill at potting the billiard balls." SPAG The Magnetic Scrolls Collection > "It's a gas, really, until the end. Just too many timing-based puzzles for > anyone's good." SynTax Magnetic Scrolls Collection > "None of the treasures is just sitting there, waiting to be picked up; > you're going to have to work hard if you're going to join the Guild, > crossing hot coals, sorting out a colourful maze and even breaking into a > bank." The Digital Antiquarian Thieves and Jinxes (or, When Michael Met Anita) > �.�.�. I certainly wouldn�t characterize Guild of Thieves as > �easy.� I would, however, characterize it as a very, very good > old-school adventure game, one of my absolute favorites of its type. You > play an apprentice thief whose trial of initiation into the Guild entails > looting a castle and its surroundings of valuables. Even in 1987 its plot > � or almost complete lack thereof � marked it as something of a > throwback, an homage to classic formative works like Adventure and Zork. > You�re free to roam as you will through its sprawling world of a hundred > or more rooms right from the beginning, solving puzzles and collecting > treasures and watching your score slowly increment. Most of the individual > puzzles are far from overwhelming in difficulty; for the most part they�re > blessedly fair. The difficulty is rather more combinatorial. Guild of > Thieves, you see, is a very big game. You�re quite likely to lose track of > something in the course of playing it, whether it be a forgotten treasure or > an unsolved puzzle. Still, it�s only when you reach the end game, which > entails penetrating the Bank of Kerovnia to recover all of the treasures > you�ve been �depositing� there for points, that a few of the puzzles > begin to push the boundaries of fair play. .�.�.�