Idle Thieves - Mafia Tycoon

I find it a lot more interesting than most other games of this genre. I haven’t seen any ads as ime they’ve been optional and I’ve not clicked on them. I like this game and had gift card money so I bought something. Hats off to the dev for considering the users I find the character descriptions very interesting and fun. I would also like there to be more women personalities and interesting characters of different backgrounds. It would really enhance the game

I pretty much never leave game reviews but this was just too audacious to ignore. I was enjoying the game until I bought the mafia expansion. To be honest I didn’t even pay enough attention to notice that only 1 of the 10 “antiheroes” (the tomb thief) in the base game was female, which in itself is a bit iffy, but the level of sexism in the mafia version is just so over the top. It’s not enough that the only female character is named “lady thief” - she’s also unbelievably underpowered. At level 80, the mafioso (the only character that’s *cheaper* to upgrade than the lady thief) has an output of about $82k/second. My lady thief, by comparison, is earning a whopping $4k/second. I get what the devs are trying to do - add a bit more complexity to the expansion. The policeman is seriously overpowered and in general you’d want to approach upgrades a little differently than in the base game. But really? Include one token female character, give her a generic gender based name, AND make her utterly worthless? I really can’t understand how the devs thought this was okay.

I’ve been playing for a little while, and though I’m tempted to maybe make an in-app purchase, it really isn’t necessary. No tournaments to compete in so I don’t feel any pressure to “pay to win.” As far as ads, you have plenty of opportunities to watch and double your speed, power, off-line earnings, etc., you can totally play and never watch a single ad.