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Is Crooks Like Us worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Groups of friends looking for timed online party matches with direct competition
- Players who enjoy balancing risky loot stacks while rivals interfere
- Party-game groups interested in switching between team, survival, and score-based modes
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players who want calm collection may hit a wall when rivals knock over their stacks and guards force them to drop loot.
- Players who dislike balancing challenges may struggle as larger stacks become increasingly difficult to control.
- Solo players looking for a single-player campaign may not find a fit in this online party game.
Our take on Crooks Like Us
The main friction point is the loot-carrying loop: larger stacks raise the score multiplier but become harder to control, and a rival collision or guard encounter can scatter or cost the load. Players who want collection without repeated disruption may bounce off during that cycle.
What is Crooks Like Us?
Crooks Like Us is an online party game for 1–8 players.
In timed levels, players collect valuables, carry them to an escape van, and balance larger stacks for higher score multipliers. Tall stacks become harder to control, while rival crooks can knock them apart with thrown items or collisions. Guards also make players drop their loot if caught. Players can enter the van during a match to use gadgets, including anvils, earthquakes, spinning doors, banana skins, and power cuts.
The Vault opens with 30 seconds left in each level, and environmental puzzles lead to a one-use bonus safe. Modes include free-for-all, team play, Last Crook Standing, First to 25k, Stack race, and Stack the logo. Levels range from a jewellery store to an underwater setting, and crooks can change hairstyles, colors, and headwear.
How Crooks Like Us plays
- 01Loot stacking
- Carrying several items at once raises score multipliers, but taller piles become less stable.
- 02Van gadgets
- Players can trigger effects such as earthquakes, power cuts, and spinning doors during a match.
- 03Multiple match modes
- Options include team contests, survival-style knockouts, and races to specific scoring or stacking goals.
- 04Level bonus objectives
- Environmental puzzles open a one-use safe, while a special vault becomes accessible in the final 30 seconds.
- 05Crook customization
- Players can change hairstyles and colors or select a headpiece.
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Crooks Like Us: platforms & release
Is Crooks Like Us worth it?
It is worth it if: groups of friends looking for timed online party matches with direct competition. Skip it if: players who want calm collection may hit a wall when rivals knock over their stacks and guards force them to drop loot.
Where can I download Crooks Like Us?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Crooks Like Us's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Crooks Like Us on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
