Burgle Bros requires stealth, planning and a little bit of luck. In the tradition of classic heist movies like Ocean's 11 and The Italian Job, you assemble your crew, make a plan, and pull off the impossible.
Push your luck or play it safe - your decisions impact everyone on your team.
Choose from a cast of characters with unique powers.
Be sneaky - Find clever solutions to get out of sticky situations.
Rogue-like - each game is a unique dynamic puzzle.
Swap floors and think in 3 dimensions to evade the guards
Use cool tools like a Smokebomb, EMP - even Donuts!
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v1.01k
Apple
released 9/4/2019
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Made it so you can skip the black screen on start by pressing on it.
Allowed more zoom out.
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Apple
5y ago
C’mon, you’ve got to be kidding!
First of all, this is an exceptionally excellent game. For all those saying this is too hard, try all the options before you complain. There are about a dozen ways you can make it easier including giving each burglar more stealth, choosing the level, setting the difficulty of each level and selecting the size of your team. My favorite is Fort Knox on normal difficulty with only Juicer and Hawk on my team. Developers, a big well done. Complainers, try engaging your brain and testing the game properly before engaging your mouth. EDIT- Having just completed Fort Knox on “Hard”, I cannot recommend this game highly enough! If you like a game that you click a couple of dozen times and can then say you’ve won, this is not for you! If however you like a challenge and want to use every ounce of your brain, you will love this game. Think a chess game against a very very good player, and you have an idea of the complexity and level of challenge, My favorite game of 2017 (and I fully expect 2018 also) Again, Well Done Developers!
EDIT AGAIN:
Still playing and still a great game. My favorite game of 2021! :)
- GoBoks · v1.01k
Apple
5y ago
Some rough edges, but a welcome game
I used to be more of a hardcore gamer - even developed video games for a few years. Nowadays I’m mostly into board games and tabletop simulators. Most board game adaptations have tons of glitzy animations and sound that I find detracts from the game play. I had played this game on Tabletop Simulator so decided to give it a try here. There are definitely some rough edges from a development standpoint. But the gameplay isn’t interfered with by a bunch of animation sideshows. I haven’t hit some of the gameplay issues I’ve seen mentioned, and hopefully there will be updates to fix those at some point. But for a casual game I can sit and play while watching TV or other multitasking, I’m pleased with this for the cost.
- squeezebox999 · v1.01k
Apple
6y ago
Great adaptation
Burgle Bros is an excellent adaptation of the board game. It is very challenging but with multiple difficulty settings is most certainly winnable. And when you win it feels like a real accomplishment. Some of the UI can be a bit hard to see at times but this is a minor issue that does not prevent enjoyment of the game.
If you want a challenging strategy game that is never the same twice you will be happy.
- flyingtanks · v1.01k
Apple
6y ago
Great game, incredibly buggy
My friend and I play this game every day. As a game, despite a few faults, it’s a lot of fun and literally the only reason I’m giving this three stars. But this implementation has so many bugs that you wonder how any testing was ever done. Where should I start?
If you play a 1 character game and one of the safes has gold bars, you can’t finish the game because there’s no one else to pick up the bars.
Hacking lasers sometimes puts you in an endless hacking loop that you have to quit.
Sometimes the game just stops going. When you quit and continue it has to start on a random player’s turn. I can’t believe they had to put a failsafe in for a condition that should never happen rather than just fix the bugs.
All kinds of other bugs like sometimes the gemstone says you can’t move into an occupied space (as it should) but then lets you anyway. Sometimes going from a laser to a fingerprint doesn’t always give cause an alarm after you hack the laser. If you lose the cat, pick it up but then undo the turn, sometimes you end up with two cats for the rest of the game. The guards on floor 4 of the Tower of Babel cause all kinds of problems with certain events or causing players to lose two stealth instead of one for seemingly no reason, increasing by two instead of one when the guard deck empties, etc.
And why doesn’t the Tower of Babel fit on my iPad Pro 12.9 without scrolling? Are you kidding me?
These are just the ones I can remember off the top of my head. We play almost every day which tells you how much I like the game. But man... the bugs are so frustrating.
- pbeasi · v1.01k
Apple
7y ago
Near great, but guards don’t follow rules.
I’m a fan of the fantastic tabletop board game, and I think the app is a fantastic conversion, but it only took me a couple of plays to notice that the guards completely ignore at least a couple of the event cards that have rules affecting them. For instance, cards that are supposed to generate a new destination for a guard don’t (he just keeps going to his original destination and THEN picks a new destination), and the card that moves guards on other floors but isn’t supposed to have ANY effect on guards that haven’t been revealed reveals and moves them anyway(coulda had something to do with my having already peeked up the stairwell and revealed a tile on the second floor). These are unforgivable glitches as, if anybody should be following the rules, it should be the AI opponent. It’s too bad the developers didn’t make a way to draw whatever card they wanted so they could test if they all worked during play. Camel Up! was another game that was well-received by the board game community where the app had a problem following the rules that was never (to my knowledge) addressed, so the sales went nowhere. Take the lesson and not the page here. I will be DELETING this until it is fixed, at which point I will redownload, return and write a glowing review. Meantime, I have a cardboard version that does everything right.
- Deadbeard · v1.01i
Apple
8y ago
Great design but text too small on iPhone 8
I love the art design of the game and it’s a great concept. Probably on an iPad it’s perfect. But on my iPhone 8 the text was simply too small, and that got so frustrating I deleted it.
- WRS15743 · v1.01i
Apple
8y ago
Great adaptation!
I own the board game and find this to be a flawless adaptation even the choice of theme music.
- SolomonJ48103 · v1.01i
Apple
8y ago
Frustratingly meh....
The physical game, and idea of game, is great. Love it.
That being said, this app is just terribly designed in my opinion. It reminds me of a bad 90’s website. Everything is just poorly loaded in these invisible windows/frames, and you need to slide everything around to see all the info. It just feels cheap and lazy.
For example the cards in a players hand appear in a small invisible window frame laid out side by side. And to see all your cards you need to slide left and right. But in doing so the “window” also slides up/down pointlessly, and it shows a scroll bar. Why? It’s just a lazy coding and poor design.
Same thing for the floor map. Some heists don’t fit in view, but you can’t zoom out enough for some odd reason, so you need to push around the floor map.
Other areas of menu and game layout just feel very badly designed to reflect such a great game. Hope the app can be updated to the 21st century.
I do agree with others that the game is incredibly difficult. More difficult than “chance’ on the dice rolls, and guard movement. It seems like 90% of the time the game is forcing me to lose, even on the easiest level. But there is customizations that allow you to change difficulty in various ways so I’m not completely dissatisfied.
- Benderbends · v1.01i
Apple
8y ago
Excellent puzzle with great theme
I've only won on the easy level but I'm having a great time puzzling through this clever game. Fun music, fun caper theme. Don't get if you don't like a challenge!
EDIT: I still have not won on the regular difficulty (I came close once) but I'm having a blast. Very clever trappy game. I will say sometimes you just have bad luck but every game I've also made mistakes so it's been partly my fault AND I've been playing with 3 burglars; 2 would be easier.
EDIT2: I won! Very satisfying. Also now new characters are unlocked.
- Nycbuddha · v1.01i
Apple
8y ago
iPhone X compatibly
The side of the screen is cut off with the X view
- crardin13 · v1.01i
Apple
8y ago
A couple flaws, punishing difficulty, but FUN!
I like boardgames, I play several, and this was indeed an easy purchase. On the plus side, the randomness adds a lot of emergent gameplay, and you wind up with a lot of decisions. On the minus side, it is HARD. I believe I have won 2 out of approximately 30 games. It's fine on the iPhone (cards need to be easier to read), and shines on the iPad. Definitely one to play with a friend at a table, but it's just super difficult.
- mbourgon · v1.01g
Apple
8y ago
Pretty but buggy
It’s a good looking adaptation
BUT
More often than I’d prefer things will just go wonky. Like having two raven icons on the board at the same time or hack tokens or working.
I would also appreciate the ability to unlock characters across devices. I don’t like having an advanced character on my iPad and not my phone.
I also think the map selection should be on the opening screen. I unthinkingly press start, and then I’m at the bank job again.
- Brarian · v1.01g
Apple
8y ago
It works great on iPad not on iPhone
I love this app. But it stopped working on my phone. I rebooted my phone, I updated my phone, I deleted and redownloaded it and lost all my progress only for the same problem to happen again.
- Ktw102085 · v1.01e
Apple
9y ago
Addictive, fun, excellent
This port of the board game is so fun and well implemented. Highly engaging and addictive. It's a phenomenal board game here playable in all it glory with none of the set up and clean up or storage of pieces in the cardboard and wood game.
- Shyam13 · v1.01c
Apple
9y ago
Several updates have improved it but...
I own the board game and love it.
I bought the app a few days after it came out, but was disappointed to learn it has several bugs that are beta-level and really should have been caught prior to official release.
Some bugs have been patched by updates, some remain, and the latest version won't let you finish the final and biggest layout - about half or two thirds through it locks up, even though it's your turn and you still have actions left to use, and you can't go back and try the last action again....nothing.
One bug i noticed is on sometimes the hack tokens don't work, and you have to take ten move back and trip the alarm.
Also, the acrobat spends three or four actions to climb the outside wall, depending on if you take an action first or not. I.e., if you have four actions, you spend all climbing the wall and have zero left. BUT If you spend an action first and have three left, it takes three actions to climb the outside wall.
Also, sometimes the tools flat out don't work, regardless of if I have the Egyptian mummy loot or not.
Overall, it's a fun game in itself. I love it. But the bugs render it very frustrating considering they're the type of things that should have been caught much earlier. Relying on reviews and bug reports to give the product polish isn't a good idea.
Hope the updates keep coming because I love the game itself.
- dnalkered · v1.01b
Apple
9y ago
If only...
While a good port of the board game, the app is still pretty buggy. Add to this the difficulty and luckiness of the game, and it makes for a frustrating experience. I've come very close to finally winning only to have the game lock up, or skip a players turn, or some other nonsense, and make it all come crashing down. So disappointing!! What the app does well is make a fiddly game easy to set up and play. It will always be hard to win, but I would probably give this 4 or 5 stars, if it would only work properly. Once they make improvements, I'll be ready to try it again.
- Laoshi75 · v1.01b
Apple
9y ago
Impossible or just very hard?
Like others, I have yet to win this game. It appears to be far too hard to win. It's particularly annoying when the guard sees you two times on the same turn. If the game were better balanced it would be a nice game. The idea is good and the implementation is well done, but it's frustrating to lose every time.
- Gplayer769 · v1.01b
Apple
9y ago
Agree... can't win.
I agree with other reviewers saying you can't win in this game. My wife and I have together played 200 some games using different maps, tactics, characters, etc and have never won this game. It's fun, but don't get it thinking you'll ever win in it.
- Tfan15789954322 · v1.01b
Apple
9y ago
Pretty good addition to your library
Great artwork, great implementation, and I like the gameplay. I don't get why people are confused about the tutorial, I thought it was good. There are some little things it leaves you to figure out and discover, but nothing that requires more than little common sense.
There's a fair amount of luck to it, actually a little more than fair, but it does add some replaybility and it's satisfying when it has its moments. Unlocking more classes when you beat the game with a character was a really nice touch.
- DaSi14 · v1.01
Apple
9y ago
Holy crap it's impossible
Friends and I love the board game. We play it quite often and win occasionally. I've played this over 40 times TODAY! And haven't come close to making it through. I talked to my friends and they have the same thought. It's impossible
- Jagstang1939 · v1.0
Apple
9y ago
Promising
A very strong starting app for one of my favorite board games! A few issues to be worked out, but overall it's what I was hoping for. They captured the theming and art of the board game so well, but I can see how it would be hard to learn the game from this app (which is a shame, because apps are great ways to dip your toe into a new game).
- asp520 · v1.0
Apple
9y ago
Dull and Unwinnable
I play a lot of digital board games, and this one looked interesting. Unfortunately, it's extremely confusing, the tutorial is borderline useless (think a chess tutorial where they show you how the pawn and bishop move, then you're on your own), and it is completely unwinnable. Already deleted it.
- jkeitz · v1.0
Apple
9y ago
Excellent implementation but still needs polish
We love the physical game so buying the app was a no-brainer. OTOH, there are a number of issues which I suspect will be rectified in the inevitable v2.0.
1) The start screen has a large graphic glitch in the character montage image.
2) When rolling a single die for the first time on a tile, a second die (un-earned) will sometimes roll immediately after.
3) The bug report tab is hidden away and not easily discoverable. It also drops to the desktop when you hit send.
- Robrob2 · v1.0
Apple
9y ago
Excellent app
Fantastic mobile version of unique and enjoyable game which creates a real sense of adventure and adrenaline.
Simple to learn (able to jump right in after watching tutorial) with rich choice of different characters with different abilities keeps replayability high.
Highly recommended
- Sampo. · v1.0
Apple
9y ago
Very fun
I really do like this game and is definitely a 5 star game but I have a occasional crash during gameplay on my iPad mini and also it's not saving my game play. Please fix and I will give this 5 stars
- Mr fixeruper · v1.0
Apple
9y ago
3.5 Stars (...for now)
As somebody who owns and plays Tabletop games regularly, snagging the Burgle Bros app for $5 was an easy decision, and one I don't regret in any way.
As somebody who doesn't have much experience with the physical edition, the app is missing a couple of things.
1) No rule book - sure, the tutorial works well. But in my first couple of plays, I had questions that a quick glance of the rules likely would've solved.
2) Guard Movement and Event Cards - When do guards go to a new pattern? Is there a stack of cards indicating how they move? Can you look at the discard pile to determine how they may move next? And how many Event Cards are there? What are the different events? -- Again, a rule book built into the app would've been helpful to answer these questions.
3) Progress during a game wasn't automatically saved. I left the app and came back, only to have all progress gone, and no save file. Maybe this was a fluke, but I was a little disappointed to lose progress in a game.
These quibbles are minor, and the app is still worth the $5 asking price. But I am hopeful that future updates will continue to make the app better. Assuming they do, this will be one of my top 3 apps of 2017. And with all the excellent Tabletop Game ports being released on iOS this year, that's really saying something!
- music-meister · v1.0
Apple
9y ago
Wonderful Digital Board Game
The app works wonderfully, if not even better than the true board game. While it's impossible to duplicate the manipulation of pieces which is present in the real board game, the ease of play for an individual is very good. The adaptation is spot on with regard to the rules, and the visuals are very appealing. After first play, I have no complaints!
- Dostalik314 · v1.0
Apple
9y ago
Fantastic game, great atomosphere
I love it. The music is so fun and adds such great atmosphere. Love being able to play on my phone. The game is fantastic at helping you understand the complexities of how to play without feeling confusing or hand-holding. Now I need to go buy the original board game version!!
- gottasurf · v1.0
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