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American Theft 80s

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2022

Should you play it?

From the THIEF SIMULATOR developers. It's the 80s. Steal VCRs, tapes, classic cars, and if you get caught, outrun the police!

What works

  • Addictive stealth gameplay with planning and tool use
  • 80s aesthetic and immersive atmosphere
  • Open world with multiple neighborhoods
  • Skill progression and heist missions
  • Good value for price, especially on sale

Things to keep in mind

  • Some bugs and jank reported
  • Repetitive gameplay after story completion
  • Limited social or cooperative features
  • Small map size and limited exploration
  • Police ai and npc behavior can be frustrating

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • American Theft 80s: Prologue

  • Thief Simulator

  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut

  • Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition

  • Take me, Vitaly

  • Shadows of Doubt

More violent

Games that feels like American Theft 80s but with more combat and destruction

  • DEAD RISING®

  • RoboCop: Rogue City

  • Selaco

  • Red Alliance

  • The Slater

  • Eternal Evil

Less expressive

Games that feels like American Theft 80s but with less self-expression and customization

  • Born Into Fear

  • Ten Bells

  • Remothered: Tormented Fathers

  • High Entropy: Challenges

  • GYLT

  • Glitched Out: Chapter 1

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

American Theft 80s: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Story, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Thrill, Survival, Story.

Last update: 03/08/2026