
2012 · Action · Adventure
Robbery Bob
Introducing the legendary thief…
- Released
- 3 May 2012
- Platforms
- AndroidiOS
- Genres
- ActionAdventureIndieStealthStrategyTactical
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- Chillingo
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Themes
- ActionStealth
- Age ratings
- PEGI 3ESRB E
- Languages
- English
About
Robbery Bob: Man of Steal (a pun on man of steel, an epithet associated with Superman, and also known by the subtitle King of Sneak) is a 2012 stealth action game developed by Swedish studio Level Eight and originally published by Chillingo. In it, the player controls a robber named Bob and must sneak around houses to complete missions. Robbery Bob was released for iOS on May 3, 2012, and has been met with a mixed reception for its gameplay and art quality.
Keywords
- thief
- robbery
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Throughout 50 levels, the player controls Bob, the titular player character, from a top-down perspective. Bob must sneak around houses and steal items without being caught. Enemies, including police officers, dogs, and family members, will roam around the house. Bob can put on disguises, hide, change the enemies' direction, and make distractions.
The player can run, but it will lure enemies towards them. The level ends once they are out of the house, and stars grade the player's performance based on speed and accuracy. On May 3, 2012, Chillingo released Robbery Bob for iOS.
Story
In prison, Bob meets a "Strange Dealer", who helps him out of jail. He requests Bob to return the favor by stealing items from different buildings. However, Strange Dealer traps Bob, and after he escapes, he calls the police to the Strange Dealer's house and escapes from his slavery.
Later, the Bob is seen downtown, where he runs into Biff. Bob is grabbed by the Biff and is used to commit robberies for him. Bob enters into Biff's apartment and sees the police, before Biff fights the officers. Bob quickly steals everything he can and escapes.
Reception
Robbery Bob has a "mixed or average" score on Metacritic.
The gameplay was received poorly. In a TouchArcade review, Brendan Saricks felt that its sneaking mechanic went from "real strong" to "a repetitive room-by-room hunt". Saricks compared Robbery Bob to the 2011 video game The Last Rocket, criticizing that the game mechanics did not go together and that the gameplay was luck-based. James Nouch of Pocket Gamer thought the controls were "clumsy", while AJ Dellinger of Gamezebo thought they were "pretty fluid". Although he thought the dialogue was "cringeworthy", Dellinger found that the story was "intense", writing about the crimes Bob commits.
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Collections2 collections
Platform libraries
- IOS gamesGames and applications
Years
- Games released in 2012List › April–June
- Games released in 2012List › October–December
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