# Thieves' Gambit: The Curse of the Black Cat

Summer DB entity ID: eaf41170\-3214\-474f\-ab33\-40aba3e4d88a

Steam App ID: 328550

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\.  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\!  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?     100,000\-word tale of adventure and intrigue    Fast cars    High fashion    State\-of\-the\-art spy gadgets    Double\-cross or be double\-crossed

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Choice of Games

- Publisher: Choice of Games

- Release date: Oct 17, 2014

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Indie, RPG

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Captions available, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/328550/ss\_384b511e394cffe37aa5b31f16e197db74a019f3\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734115175, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/328550/ss\_0086c94a9ca02b573fa7bb8b34e08d903df50cb3\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734115175, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/328550/ss\_566326abb411835eee62411040472c85c69ff574\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734115175, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/328550/ss\_036146067e717992940800a7e65e6582d1b8c9ee\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734115175, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/328550/ss\_189692f44b2a63595faffe69b9c695fa8e39dbdf\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734115175

- Price: 499 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 30

- Steam positive reviews: 24

- Steam negative reviews: 6

- Steam positive percentage: 80%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/eaf41170-3214-474f-ab33-40aba3e4d88a/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/eaf41170-3214-474f-ab33-40aba3e4d88a/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-22T01:49:33\.388617\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T01:49:34\.678818\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T01:49:34\.349969\+00:00

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Native rating methodology: \{"count":0,"average":null,"entityId":"eaf41170\-3214\-474f\-ab33\-40aba3e4d88a","revision":0,"observedAt":null,"methodology":"arithmetic\-v1","distribution":\[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\]\}

Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

[Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/328550/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/eaf41170-3214-474f-ab33-40aba3e4d88a)