Top 30 Heist Games to Play in 2025 | CRIMENET Gazette
- Niels Gys
- Oct 31
- 7 min read
Updated: Nov 11
From quiet burglaries to explosive vault raids — these are the criminal masterpieces you can still play right now.
🔄 Last updated 31st october, 2025)
Welcome to the Underworld Library
If you’ve ever looked at a CCTV camera and thought, “I could outsmart that box of blinking lights,” congratulations — you’re home.
This is CRIMENET’s Top 30 Heist Games Hub. Forget moral lessons. Forget cops. This is the side of gaming where you don’t save the day — you steal it, polish it, and sell it on eBay.
You’ll find everything from pixel-perfect burglaries to bank jobs so loud they could rattle the Pope’s fillings. There are games here that teach you patience, others that teach you demolition physics, and a few that teach you how to completely ruin friendships in co-op.
This isn’t some clean “Best Games of the Year” list. This is a catalogue of chaos. It’s the digital equivalent of meeting in a smoky bar, unfolding a map of the city, and saying, “Right lads, what’s the score tonight?”
We didn’t rank these for their wholesome content. We ranked them for the way they make you grin when the alarm goes off and you say, “We’ve got two minutes before the cops arrive — grab everything that’s not nailed down.”
So buckle up, mask on, radio check.
We’re going in.
The 30 Greatest Heist Games (Ranked)
Legend:🟢 = Very active right now • 🟡 = Warm / Moderate activity • 🔴 = Legacy cult classic
1. PAYDAY 2 🟢
💬 The eternal money printer. Decade-old and still funding digital retirement plans.
🧩 Co-op Heist FPS • ⭐ 88.56% • 👥 25K+ online • 🎮 PC/PS/Xbox
➡️ [Review] | [Heist Guides ➜ COMING SOON]
2. Teardown 🟢
💬 A sandbox so destructible it’s practically performance art. Every wall is loot.
🧩 Sandbox Heist/Destruction • ⭐ 94.27% • 👥 2K+ online • 🎮 PC/PS/Xbox
➡️ [Review ➜]
3. PAYDAY 3 🟡
💬 A messy launch, but when it hits, it hits like C4 behind a teller desk.
🧩 Co-op Heist FPS • ⭐ 44.47% • 👥 400+ online • 🎮 PC/PS/Xbox
➡️ [Review ➜] | [Builds & Money Routes ➜ COMING SOON]
4. PAYDAY: The Heist 🟡
💬 The original — raw, gritty, and harder than your first drill jam.
🧩 Co-op Heist FPS • ⭐ 91.56% • 👥 Peak 50K • 🎮 PC/PS
➡️ [Review ➜] | [Classic Job Archive ➜ COMING SOON]
5. Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine 🟡
💬 Top-down chaos where every player ruins someone else’s plan — artfully.
🧩 Co-op Stealth Heist • ⭐ 87.88% • 👥 Peak 41K • 🎮 PC/Switch/Console
➡️ [Review ➜]
6. Thief (2014) 🟡
💬 Shadows, pockets, and an unhealthy love of candlesticks.
🧩 Stealth Theft Sim • ⭐ 73.40% • 👥 Peak 18K • 🎮 PC/PS/Xbox
➡️ [Review ➜]
7. Thief Simulator 2 🟡
💬 Suburban burglary therapy — new locks, new loot, same adrenaline.
🧩 Burglary Sim • ⭐ 86.05% • 👥 Peak 4K • 🎮 PC
➡️ [Review ➜]
8. Thief Simulator 🟡
💬 The original “influencer’s guide to home invasion.” Still gold.
🧩 Burglary Sim • ⭐ 86.63% • 👥 Peak 7K • 🎮 PC/Console
➡️ [Review ➜]
9. The Break-In 🟡
💬 Multiplayer burglary physics comedy — it’s Ocean’s 11 if they slipped on every tile.
🧩 Co-op Burglary • ⭐ 84.25% • 👥 Peak 1K • 🎮 PC
➡️ [Review ➜]
10. Perfect Heist 2 🟢
💬 Cops vs robbers, low-poly chaos — where robbers look like accountants.
🧩 Asymmetric Heist FPS • ⭐ 89.32% • 👥 200+ online • 🎮 PC
➡️ [Review ➜]
11. Crime Scene Cleaner 🟢
💬 Not the heist — the cleanup. Bleach never smelled so profitable.
🧩 Crime Cleanup Sim • ⭐ 95.74% • 👥 1.5K online • 🎮 PC
➡️ [Review ➜]
12. Crime Boss: Rockay City 🟡
💬 90s Miami fever dream: neon shirts, B-list icons, and stolen cash.
🧩 Co-op Heist FPS • ⭐ 57.10% • 👥 190 online • 🎮 PC/PS/Xbox
➡️ [Review ➜]
13. SteamWorld Heist II 🟡
💬 Turn-based piracy with precision aim and cowboy hats.
🧩 Tactical Heist RPG • ⭐ 89.65% • 👥 Peak 1.6K • 🎮 PC/Console
➡️ [Review ➜]
14. SteamWorld Heist 🟡
💬 The OG tactical caper — every ricochet a work of art.
🧩 Tactical Heist RPG • ⭐ 90.17% • 👥 Peak 1.1K • 🎮 PC/Console
➡️ [Review ➜]
15. One-Armed Robber 🟢
💬 You, one arm, infinite ambition. Somehow it works.
🧩 Co-op Robbery Sim • ⭐ 89.71% • 👥 1.1K online • 🎮 PC
➡️ [Review ➜]
16. Hood: Outlaws & Legends 🔴
💬 Robin Hood if Robin used smoke bombs and microtransactions.
🧩 PvPvE Heist • ⭐ 47.88% • 👥 Peak 11K • 🎮 PC/PS/Xbox
➡️ [Review ➜]
17. RAID: World War II 🟡
💬 WWII bank jobs with machine guns — think PAYDAY in fatigues.
🧩 Co-op Heist FPS • ⭐ 62.55% • 👥 Peak 1.5K • 🎮 PC
➡️ [Review ➜]
18. Operation: Tango 🟡
💬 Two-player co-op heists: one hacker, one agent, both panicking.
🧩 Co-op Heist Puzzler • ⭐ 84.56% • 👥 Peak 1K • 🎮 PC/PS/Xbox
➡️ [Review ➜] | [Comms Tips ➜] | [SteamDB ➜]
19. Larcin Lazer 🔴
💬 Minimalist stealth gem. Pure precision and no nonsense.
🧩 Stealth Heist • ⭐ 90.25% • 👥 Peak 38 • 🎮 PC
➡️ [Review ➜]
20. Dr. Langeskov & The Terribly Cursed Emerald 🔴
💬 A meta heist comedy where the setup is the punchline.
🧩 Heist Satire / Short Game • ⭐ 90.44% • 👥 Peak 815 • 🎮 PC
➡️ [Review ➜]
21. HeistGeist 🔴
💬 Turn-based deckbuilding meets high-stakes burglary.
🧩 Card RPG Heist • ⭐ 86.50% • 👥 Peak 23 • 🎮 PC
➡️ [Review ➜]
22. Midnight Heist 🟡
💬 Flashlights, fear, and stolen tech. A modern indie creeper.
🧩 Co-op Horror Heist • ⭐ 86.30% • 👥 Peak 106 • 🎮 PC
➡️ [Review ➜]
23. Dark Hours 🟡
💬 Urban horror robbery sim — because ghosts need valuables too.
🧩 Horror Heist • ⭐ 80.37% • 👥 Peak 1.8K • 🎮 PC
➡️ [Review ➜]
24. Dark Hours: Prologue 🟡
💬 Free teaser for your next nervous breakdown.
🧩 Horror Heist (Prologue) • ⭐ 84.87% • 👥 Peak 3.6K • 🎮 PC
➡️ [Review ➜]
25. The Greatest Penguin Heist of All Time 🔴
💬 A fever dream about armed penguins stealing gold.
🧩 Co-op Heist Comedy • ⭐ 86.16% • 👥 Peak 425 • 🎮 PC
➡️ [Review ➜]
26. Clank! 🟡
💬 Deckbuilding dungeon robbery. Don’t make noise. You made noise.
🧩 Card/Board Heist • ⭐ 85.99% • 👥 Peak 177 • 🎮 PC
➡️ [Review ➜]
27. Turnip Boy Robs a Bank 🔴
💬 Tax evasion was just the beginning. Armed botany.
🧩 Roguelite Heist • ⭐ 90.91% • 👥 Peak 606 • 🎮 PC/Switch
➡️ [Review ➜]
28. Quadrilateral Cowboy 🔴
💬 Command-line heisting. Retro hacking never looked this cool.
🧩 Cyber-Heist Puzzle • ⭐ 86.62% • 👥 Peak 311 • 🎮 PC
➡️ [Review ➜]
29. Rubber Bandits 🟡
💬 Party chaos: a mash of loot, physics, and bad decisions.
🧩 Party Heist • ⭐ 81.40% • 👥 Peak 8.4K • 🎮 PC/Console
➡️ [Review ➜]
30. Crime Simulator 🟢
💬 The open-world playground of every aspiring petty crook.
🧩 Crime Sandbox Sim • ⭐ 78.50% • 👥 1K+ online • 🎮 PC
➡️ [Review ➜]
Crime never pays — but it does entertain the hell out of you.
Whether you’re cracking safes in PAYDAY 2, ghosting through Thief Simulator 2, or mopping up in Crime Scene Cleaner, these games prove one universal truth:
The perfect crime isn’t about the loot. It’s about the laugh when you get away with it.
FAQ: Everything You Wanted to Know About Heist Games (But Were Too Busy Hiding the Body)
What is a heist game, exactly? A heist game is any title where you earn your paycheck the illegal way — robbing, stealing, smuggling, laundering, or cleaning up the mess afterward. If the main character spends more time wearing gloves than praying, it’s probably a heist game.
Why isn’t Hitman on the list? Because that’s murder with paperwork, not a robbery. We respect 47’s bald head, but we’re talking about games where you steal money, not oxygen.
What’s the most realistic heist game? PAYDAY 2, hands down. It’s so accurate that half the community now refers to their local bank as “The Deposit Box.”Every drill jam, every panicked pager call — it’s all part of the trauma bond.
What’s the best heist game for beginners? Perfect Heist 2 if you like chaos, Thief Simulator 2 if you prefer silence. Both will teach you valuable life skills like patience, timing, and how to explain to your parents why you now know how motion sensors work.
Are there any good co-op heist games? Oh, absolutely. PAYDAY 2, PAYDAY 3, The Break-In, and One-Armed Robber are the holy quartet of online crime. They prove friendship is temporary — loot is forever.
What’s the funniest heist game on the list? Turnip Boy Robs a Bank. It’s like Animal Crossing after a tax audit. Also Rubber Bandits, which turns theft into slapstick ballet — you’ll laugh so hard you’ll drop the cash bag.
Which heist game is still worth playing in 2025? PAYDAY 2 refuses to die. It’s the cockroach of criminal entertainment — unkillable, thriving, and always planning another DLC. Also Teardown, because destroying property is still cheaper than therapy.
Why isn’t GTA V here? Because we wanted a list that didn’t need a small nation’s GDP to run online.Also, GTA already owns the crime genre — this list celebrates the underdogs who steal from the king.
Can I actually learn something useful from these games? Yes — mostly how not to commit crimes. But if you ever need to hotwire a forklift, open a safe, or shout “GET THE BAGS!” convincingly, you’ll be miles ahead of the general population.
Will there be updates to this list? Absolutely. We’ll keep the getaway car running and update it whenever new criminal masterpieces drop. Bookmark this page and check back whenever Steam releases another “small indie project about organized theft.”
Who writes this stuff? CRIMENET — the only gaming outlet that thinks morality is optional but good writing isn’t. We celebrate villains, mock cops, and keep our spreadsheets criminally tidy.
Got another question? Slide into our comments or yell it through a ski mask — we’ll hear you either way.
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