

Goblin Vyke: The Thief Tycoon
Art Thieves · 2026 · Stealth, Shop Keeper, Metroidvania, Difficult, Dungeon Crawler
PC
Mostly Positive70% · 1,343 📈 Making a comeback 82%
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About Goblin Vyke: The Thief Tycoon
My dying father’'s last words: “'Be greedy.”' —— Goblin Vyke
Run your very own goblin shop in a medieval world. Goblin Vyke is a 2D side-scrolling game that blends stealth with shop management. You are Vyke the goblin, a thief who sneaks into dungeons to plunder treasures by night, and a merchant who sells the loot for massive profits by day. You’ll master your stealth skills and cheat death to steal the Demon Lord’s secret fortunes, while simultaneously hiring employees and expanding your franchise to grow your business. Eventually, you’ll rise from a penniless goblin to an influential black-market tycoon!The Golden Dungeon is fraught with danger, and as a small, frail goblin, you can’t win a straight fight against any foe—but you have other choices. Throw Coinbeetles that turn into bells to attract enemies, set Nap Traps to put guards to sleep, use Smoke Mimics to cover your escape. Use a variety of abilities and items to outsmart and “kite” your enemies.Deadly dungeon traps? Turn the tables by luring enemies into the traps, setting up a lethal game of hide-and-seek. Explore hidden areas and discover untold treasures. Every path might lead to unexpected surprises—or fatal dangers. Steal weapons from enemies’ hands, grab loot from treasure chests, and complete a spectacular theft right under the nose of Death!Search, Steal, and Evacuate
Upgrading your talent tree doesn’t just enhance your exploration and survival abilities—it also unlocks different playstyles! Go for the Agile Thief build: use your Grappling Hook to escape pursuits and Shadow Rewind to return to position, completely throwing enemies off. Prefer the Cunning Tactician build? Toss Coinbeetles to manipulate enemies’ movements or Play Dead until the coast is clear. Or choose the Aggressive Brute build: leap from heights to Stun Stomp enemies, or even stand in front of a guard and snatch their equipment with a Steal Parry!Backpack capacity is limited, and loot takes up different numbers of slots. Will you use items to boost your survival chances, or bring them back to sell for profit? Manage your inventory wisely, explore item combos, and make crucial choices between risk and reward.Agile Thief or Aggressive Brute?The treasures you stole last night must be sold for a golden price today! The rules are simple: roll the dice multiple times and pair them with the appropriate Haggle Skills to increase the customer’s Persuasion. Convince the customer, and you can sell the items for up to three times the original price. But be careful: if you exceed the required Persuasion points, the customer will immediately turn against you.Display Collectibles in your shop to help grow your sales. Remember: your eloquence determines your wealth. Bombastic sales pitches, the right Collectibles, and a bit of luck will make customers willingly empty their wallets for your secondhand items at extraordinary prices.Roll the Dice and Raise the Price, but Don’t OversellThe story begins with you as a little goblin drowning in debt. But as your thieving skills improve and your shop business booms, the tide begins to turn. Recruit employees with different attributes: the “Man of Steel” never gets stranded, the “Storage Expert” carries a bigger backpack, the “Squishy” one dies permanently when injured, and the “Lazy” one brings back very little.As you expand your influence by opening franchise locations, powerful figures will come knocking at your door, currying favor and asking for your assistance. The Adventurers’ Guild, a mysterious organization... Everyone wants to win you over. One day, even the Demon Lord of the Golden Dungeon will take notice of you, hoping you’ll become her new emissary!From Debt-Ridden Goblin to Black-Market Tycoon!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This game taught me the value of greed. From now on I will fully embrace capitalism. 5/5 stars!1 found this helpful
Keyboard controls are not fluid enough to make dungeon-crawling fun instead of frustrating, and those tied to the middle mouse button are not rebindable. I refused to put up with it for more than one night cycle; I refunded the game after dying twice and getting hit with an unskippable dialogue with the Mask about Vyke's greed-born immortality. The controls for the shop sequence work, but the UI doesn't: If your target numbers in the green zone have more than two digits apiece, they squish together into an incomprehensible supernumber. After you roll a number on the die, it is never displayed again, which makes planning the use of "Double your last Persuasion roll" as a skill entirely reliant on one's own fallible human memory. They use the abbreviation "mult." instead of the real word in the tutorial that teaches you about how to increase the multipliers that raise the price of a sale. The button that lets you start a second round of bargaining instead of closing the current deal you have is inexplicably named "Sell More," which led me to believe that clicking it would make the customer add an item to his bag in addition to those for which he had initially begun haggling, but it d…
I’ve enjoyed playing this game for the past few weeks. The general game loop is simple but addictive with wanting to get your greedy little hands on all the loot you can get. It’s definitely a bit harder in the early game for some locations but you can definitely feel your characters growth as you get experienced with the dungeon layouts and upgraded skills. That said I do have a few issues: 1: The storage system can feel a bit rough at times and the need to constantly spend gold to upgrade it can become a little tedious once you start getting sales associates. It doesn’t make much sense to me why we need to wait until the morning to send our associates extra goods when we could send the resources at the end of the night. 2: The NPC’s can be interesting to talk to but almost all of them feel a little too short interaction wise. The Dwarf Balin seems to just disappear at the end with no real explanation leaving his story on a cliff hanger. Overall the game is fun and for something built by a small crew I do think it’s a great game. Keep up the great work and I hope to see a new project from you guys in the future.
Auto-Save is a little clunky, but I'm a sucker for that "Adventure by night, sell by day" gameplay loop.
Really fun game. Just wish I could save in the middle of the dungeon.
This is an amazing game, funny story, a good side-quests and storylines, and many different endings ready and waiting to explore. This game is an amazing gem!
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