Filcher

Filcher is a first-person 2.5D noir stealth game about Sporey, a freelance thief who left the Blackburn Gang a year ago to make her fortune. Her former fence and mentor tracks her down and forces her back into servitude to settle an old debt. Sporey sees this as a temporary setback, but with honour among thieves wearing thin, she must work out which of her former comrades she can trust.

Stealth and exploration

You use cover and shadows to avoid being seen, move carefully to stay quiet, and rely on sight and sound to detect enemies, loot and secrets. Across nine hand-crafted levels, you steal loot, outsmart enemies, bypass security systems, read documents and uncover secrets.

Tools and story

Tools for solving problems include a blackjack, a sleep-dart gun, lockpicks, flashbangs and windup toys that make noise. The story unfolds through dialogue snippets, in-game readables, mission briefings and comic book-style cutscenes.

Mission scores

A scoring system rewards stealth and exploration, and you can replay missions to earn higher ranks by completing them more stealthily. The highest rank, Ghost, requires finding all loot and secrets without being detected, knocking out any guards or loading a mid-mission save.