Best Heist Games on Steam
Games about planning, executing, or surviving robberies, break-ins, and big scores.
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1Persona 5 Royal - Lead the Phantom Thieves of Hearts in this award winning, stylish turn-based RPG filled with dungeon crawling, party customization, strategic combat, and Persona fusion. Explore Tokyo, build relationships, battle Shadows, and infiltrate the minds of the corrupt to make them change their ways!
Oct 20, 2022
In this game, you can…
- get framed for assault, moved to Tokyo, then dragged into a parallel world by a talking cat to commit heists.
- send a calling card, break into someone's mind, and steal their "heart" to change how they act in real life.
- talk enemies into joining you mid-fight, then fuse them into new monsters to build custom battle strategies.
- spend a full in-game year budgeting every day between school, jobs, friends, workouts, and night-time dungeon raids.
- hide behind cover, grapple to hidden routes, and ambush guards in themed dungeons that play like stealth heists.
- trigger a critical hit, chain teammate follow-ups, and end the turn with a screen-filling group finisher.
- build friendships that unlock concrete combat perks and special moves, not just extra dialogue.
2Teardown - Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.
Apr 21, 2022
In this game, you can…
- rip a fridge door off with a blowtorch, glue it onto a water-sensitive safe, and carry it through the rain without setting it off.
- move six rain-triggered safes in different trucks, plank and debris-shield them, ferry them to a cliff, then dump them into the ocean one by one.
- set a building on fire and watch flames spread, smoke pour out, and the structure collapse into a charred husk.
- spend as long as you want reshaping the map, then trigger a 60-second alarm and sprint an escape route you built yourself.
- knock a hole in a barn, build plank paths across rooftops, and use a crane to lift a car onto a boat before time runs out.
- peel a building apart until the roof drops onto a vehicle, then drive that vehicle as a mobile bridge to a new route.
- drive a bulldozer straight through walls and level an entire town.
- use a crane to lift pallets and lay planks to connect buildings, turning construction gear into your heist path.
3METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN - Ushering in a new era for the METAL GEAR franchise with cutting-edge technology powered by the Fox Engine, METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Phantom Pain, will provide players a first-rate gaming experience as they are offered tactical freedom to carry out open-world missions.
Sep 1, 2015
In this game, you can…
- kidnap soldiers and airlift them away with balloons, then do the same to animals, vehicles, and even tanks.
- command your horse to poop in the road so enemy vehicles skid out, steal a tank, and fire your bionic arm like a rocket.
- wait for a sandstorm, sneak in under the chaos, and watch guards change gear and patrols to counter your favorite tactics.
- extract a puppy from a battlefield, raise it into a scouting companion, and bring a support sniper who bails you out when you're spotted.
- hide in a cardboard box, slide downhill for huge distances, then pop out when a target walks up to inspect it.
- take the same objective and either plant explosives quietly, storm in with heavy weapons, roll up in a mech, or erase the whole area from a helicopter.
- upload your own music and blast it from helicopter loudspeakers while you fly into combat.
- invade other players' offshore bases to steal their soldiers and supplies, then get invaded back and have to defend what you built.
4Dishonored 2 - Reprise your role as a supernatural assassin in Dishonored 2. Declared a “masterpiece” by Eurogamer and hailed “a must-play revenge tale” by Game Informer, Dishonored 2 is the follow up to Arkane’s 1st-person action blockbuster & winner of 100+ 'Game of the Year' awards, Dishonored.
Nov 11, 2016
In this game, you can…
- pull levers to reconfigure an entire mansion, turning rooms and hallways into a shifting mechanical puzzle box.
- move through the same mansion in two different time periods and change the past to alter what's waiting in the present.
- make choices that let you skip entire levels, even in a story-driven campaign.
- pick one protagonist, then replay as the other with a completely different set of supernatural powers.
- mix both protagonists' powers together in New Game+ and build combinations the campaign wasn't originally balanced for.
- link multiple enemies together so one takedown or one shot drops everyone connected to the chain.
- possess a rat to slip through tiny cracks, then hop bodies to bypass defenses from the inside.
- drop from a huge height, stab someone mid-fall, survive the landing, slow time, detonate an explosive tank, then finish the survivors with a summoned rat swarm.
5One-armed robber - One-armed robber is a chaotic first-person heist game that centers around a uniquely challenging premise. Players take the role of a determined robber equipped with only one arm, tasked with pulling off daring heists on banks, shops, and various establishments.
Dec 15, 2023
In this game, you can…
- rob banks with only one arm.
- hit a bank, take down security, crack the vault, then survive the military showing up before you escape with the money.
- tie up hostages, dodge cameras, wipe out the SWAT response, and still get away with $70,000 from a jewelry store.
- choose to sneak in quietly or go loud and shoot your way to the vault.
- break into a vault, stuff loot into a duffel bag, then sprint back to the truck for another bag to haul even more out.
- set off an alarm by dropping your gun or shattering a single window, then fight your way out while everything devolves into chaos.
- unlock tools and customize weapons so you can approach the same heist in totally different ways.
6PAYDAY™ The Heist - Take on the role of a hardened career criminal executing intense, dynamic heists in constant pursuit of the next “big score”
Oct 20, 2011
In this game, you can…
- trade hostages to the police to get a captured teammate back.
- open a hidden overvault by having four players physically align inside the bank vault, then walk away with 60 million dollars.
- pull off a hospital job by stealing blood samples, breaking into quarantine, drawing and purifying blood, restoring elevator power, then stealing an ambulance to escape.
- sneak through a pitch-black building, disable cameras and alarms, and watch the entire heist flip depending on whether anyone spots you.
- babysit a drill or saw, sprint back to restart it when it jams, and hold the room as the police keep closing in.
- hit a bank vault that forces you into a full chain: cut the safe, realize you need thermite, then either get in quietly or burn through the roof.
- run heists where objective spawns and enemy paths shift, so the plan changes even when you know the map.
7Crime Scene Cleaner - Once you get tangled with the mob, you will forever be a part of the mob. At least they pay a decent salary and all you have to do is clean up after their dirty work, but you know what you’re doing. So clean crime scenes, earn as much money as you can, and get ready for the next mission.
Aug 14, 2024
In this game, you can…
- upgrade your gear until your trash can turns into a miniature black hole and your bucket becomes a dripping cardboard box with new sounds.
- loot murder scenes while you clean, pocketing drugs, cash, jewelry, and expensive watches for extra payout.
- collect cassette tapes and play real-world music tracks from your tablet while you clean.
- piece together what happened from bodies, blood splatters, weapon placement, and the way a trashed room is laid out.
- dual-wield sponges and swap between tools like mops, power washers, detergents, UV lights, and air fresheners.
- haul bodies to your truck, then accidentally ragdoll-toss corpses into walls while you're trying not to make new stains.
- drain a pool, scrub it clean, and refill it as part of a cleanup job.
- walk into a building for one job, take a wrong turn, and stumble into secret rooms, hidden doors, and extra story bits.
8Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist - A 15 minute heist game by Crows Crows Crows & Directed by William Pugh (The Stanley Parable). Slip into the soft-soled shoes of the mastermind responsible for the greatest heist- oh god I can’t do this any more, i’m joining the strike. good luck writing the steam description. -tina
Dec 4, 2015
In this game, you can…
- get pulled backstage and run the heist as the unseen crew while a stressed director barks cues at you.
- use baby powder to spot laser beams, or assemble a drone from three guards' keys and a computer chip to disable a generator before the laser section.
- get chased through the garden by a tiger and fight it off with whatever's in reach, like a broom and a cheese cracker.
- choose different ways into the mansion, like entering via the roof, tranquilizing guards, and getting dumped into a garden when the chimney collapses.
- tranquilize snipers, guards, and even the tiger, then manage your remaining darts for later patrols that carry vault codes.
- time your shots with thunder and lightning so the noise and flashes hide what you're doing from patrolling guards.
- steal the emerald and watch it glitch in and out as the heist starts collapsing around you.
- grab a tape recorder and hunt down scattered tapes, pretzels, loose change, and other odd props hidden around the run.
- sprint for an emergency exit under a strict two-minute escape timer while guards and security cars close in behind you.
9FINAL FANTASY - The original FINAL FANTASY comes to life with completely new graphics and audio! A remodeled 2D take on the first game in the world-renowned FINAL FANTASY series! Enjoy the timeless story told through charming retro graphics.
Jul 28, 2021
In this game, you can…
- lock in a four-person party from six classes at the start, then live with that lineup for the entire adventure.
- turn random encounters off entirely and set an XP multiplier anywhere from 0 to 4 for a totally different kind of run.
- walk up and down one hallway for ages to make a super-rare enemy finally appear, then watch it flee after two turns.
- run magic on limited spell charges per tier, so you decide exactly when a spell is worth spending.
- stack world maps, dungeon maps, a mini-map, and treasure tracking, then scroll the map in place to hunt missed chests.
- use items in battle as active tools, triggering buffs and effects you might not realize exist until late in the game.
- chain buffs like Temper and Haste on your fighters until a final boss that seemed impossible suddenly collapses in a few turns.
10Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine - Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.
Apr 24, 2013
In this game, you can…
- send a pet monkey to steal coins without triggering alarms.
- dig through walls to make your own tunnels into vaults and out to a bush escape route.
- run down a hallway and make laser grids and alarm systems shut off as you pass.
- put on a disguise from cover and walk past enemies who would normally spot you.
- play a heist that starts as silent sneaking, then turns into a full-map chase where survival becomes the only plan.
- reveal guards and civilians across the map just by staying still or moving carefully, so your whole team can plan around it.
- get spotted, break line of sight, dive into a vent or bush, regroup, and keep the heist going instead of restarting.
