Card Thief vs Lumen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Card Thief
A solitaire-style stealth game where you play as a master thief. Sneak through darkness, steal treasure, and escape without getting caught. It offers deep strategy and roguelike replayability in short, engaging sessions.
- Solitaire-style stealth gameplay
- 4 unique heists
- Unlockable equipment cards
- Hireable thieves with special rules
- Mini deck-building mechanics
- Daily Heist mode with leaderboards
- Roguelike replayability
- Offline play
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Card Thief is a solitaire-style stealth card game that transforms your deck into a shadowy world of cunning heists and daring escapes. Sneak through the darkness as a master thief. Extinguish torches, pickpocket guards, and steal precious treasure without getting caught. Every card you flip is a calculated risk. Every move could be your last. From the makers of Card Crawl, the hit indie card dungeon crawler, Card Thief distills the tension of classic stealth games into a sleek, strategic card game you can play in minutes. Easy to learn, endlessly deep. Plan. Steal. Escape. Repeat. With a rich layer of tactical decision-making, risk/reward choices, and roguelike replayability, Card Thief is the perfect pick-up-and-play strategy card game for fans of stealth, puzzle games, and solo card games alike. Features - Solitaire-style stealth gameplay with no internet required - 4 unique heists with distinct enemies, traps, and obstacles - 12 unlockable and upgradable equipment cards with unique abilities - Hire 10 thieves, each with special gameplay rules - Mini deck-building mechanics for deep strategic customization - Daily Heist mode with global leaderboards - Roguelike replayability so every run plays differently - Perfect session length of 2 to 3 minutes per game - Offline play, great for travel
Lumen
A serene logic puzzle game where you draw a single continuous loop through a grid, guided by white and black pearls. Enjoy a calming experience with no timers or pressure, featuring daily puzzles and a beautiful visual style.
- Daily hand-crafted puzzles
- Hundreds of puzzles
- Relaxing visual style
- Smart hints
- Offline play
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Lumen is a calm, beautiful logic puzzle built around a single rule: light the glowing pearls and draw one continuous loop through the grid. White pearls ask the loop to pass straight through. Black pearls ask it to turn. Every puzzle has exactly one elegant solution, and the quiet satisfaction of finding it is the whole point. There is no timer and no pressure. Solve one puzzle on a coffee break, or sink into a long, meditative streak. Lumen is designed to slow your mind down, not speed it up. Features: - A fresh hand-crafted puzzle every day - Hundreds of puzzles across gentle to genuinely tricky - A clean, glowing visual style made to relax - Smart hints when you want a nudge, never forced - Play offline, anywhere, anytime Lumen is free to play. An optional one-time unlock opens the full puzzle library. Terms of Use (EULA): https://policies.superfuturelabs.com/lumen/terms Privacy Policy: https://policies.superfuturelabs.com/lumen/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Lumen at none against Card Thief's shown. Lumen also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Card Thief's advantage is ratings volume (1K vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Card Thief sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Lumen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Lumen holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Card Thief has 1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Card Thief ships an update every 4 months, Lumen daily. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Card Thief | Lumen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 161 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Arnold Rauers | Super, Inc. |
Bugs and requests
Card Thief
Reported bugs
9 issues- Crystals which you can get when playing are useless
- Notch covers game information on iPhone X+
- Ads error prevents chest opening
- Hideout heists have unrealistically high scores
- Can't open hideout, game crashes
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- Crashes right after starting on M1 iPad Pro with iPadOS 14.7.1
- Crashes all the time
- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
Requested features
9 requests- More enemies or traps to deal with
- More equipment to try out
- 4x4 layout rather than 3x3
- Endless mode
- Multiplayer compatibility
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- Sync game data between Android and iOS
- Shop to use crystals
- More levels, incentives, and variations in the Hideout games
- Ability to cash in stolen goods for new tool cards or special cards
Lumen
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Card Thief
- Unlock Card Thief$4.99
Lumen
- Lumen Pro$4.99
