Among Thieves vs Dawnmaker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Among Thieves
Compete to become the ultimate thief by planning robberies and heists. Sabotage opponents and set traps to secure the greatest fortune. Play solo against AI or invite friends for online multiplayer challenges.
- Plan street robberies and heists
- Set traps and sabotage opponents
- Accumulate the greatest fortune
- Online multiplayer
- Solo AI play
- Invite friends via Facebook
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In Among Thieves, you take the role of a thief, trying to prove he’s the best in the trade by accumulating the greatest fortune. You will do this by carefully planning street robberies and dangerous heists, but also by setting traps for the others and sabotaging their well-prepared burglaries. And don’t forget – players are just as good as any other victim, for there is no honor among thieves! You play with 5 types of cards: Trap, Sabotage, Heist, Steal and No Honour Among Thieves card. You play with 2 of them on every turn. Choose wisely. The game has online multiplayer, as well as solo AI play (vs robots). Login with Facebook and you can invite your friends and play with them.
Dawnmaker
A solo strategy game blending city building and deck building mechanics. Rebuild a world shrouded in toxic smog by constructing buildings, acquiring powerful cards, and upgrading your lighthouse to reclaim lost lands and technologies.
- City building mechanics
- Deck building gameplay
- Resource management
- Lighthouse upgrades
- Smog reclamation
- Technology recovery
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Dawnmaker is a solo strategy game combining elements of city building and deck building to create a board game-like experience. In a world covered by a toxic Smog, only you can rekindle the ancient lighthouses and bring light and life back. Construct buildings, gain new cards, generate resources and improve your central lighthouse to unlock new building space. Optimize your deck - gain increasingly powerful cards as you improve your city. Your cards and buildings interact in various ways: choose them wisely to create the most powerful combinations! Build efficient cities - make the best of your limited space by optimally positioning your buildings. Improve your lighthouse to repel the Smog and expand your city. Manage your resources - grow farms, build industries, develop science and inspire your people to create the rarest of resources: Eclairium! Reclaim the lost continent - the continent of Heksiga has been covered by a toxic Smog. Repair and improve magical lighthouses to repel that Smog and reclaim the land, region by region. Recover lost technologies - explore vestiges of the old Empire and rediscover technologies that were lost to the Smog.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dawnmaker at 5.0 against Among Thieves's 4.2. Dawnmaker also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 33 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). Among Thieves's advantage is price ($4.99 vs $8.99). On ratings volume, ads, 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
Among Thieves costs $4.99 and Dawnmaker $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dawnmaker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Among Thieves's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dawnmaker's.
Among Thieves ships an update every 33 months, Dawnmaker daily. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Among Thieves | Dawnmaker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 — better | $8.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 33 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 144 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | LAN - GAMES EOOD | Acram Digital |
Customer experience
Among Thieves
Dawnmaker
In-app purchases
Among Thieves
No in-app purchases
Dawnmaker
No in-app purchases









