Tichu vs Among Thieves
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tichu
A strategic partnership card game for four players where teams compete to be the first to empty their hands and score points. Features challenging AI opponents and online multiplayer for global play. Learn the game with a comprehensive tutorial and helpful hints.
- Partnership card game for four players
- Strategic gameplay with risk and scoring
- Challenging configurable AI opponents
- Online multiplayer with up to 4 players
- Cloud data backup and sync
- Extensive tutorial and in-game documentation
- Hint feature for learning
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*** Listed on Games Magazine's Electronic Games 100 for 2011! *** Legend has it that over 642 million Chinese play Tichu nearly every day! I don't know about that. All I know is that Tichu might very well be the world's best card game. Tichu is a partnership game for four players where partners battle to be the first to play all of their cards and score points. Each hand is filled with strategy and risk. Will you be the first player to play all of your cards? Perhaps you'd like to make a little wager on that? Are you willing to risk 100 points? How about 200? Tichu has long been the favorite card game of all time on BoardGameGeek. Find out why! I promise that you won't regret it! Tichu boasts the following great features: Fully licensed and authorized by designer Urs Hostettler and publisher Fata Morgana Spiele. Computer controlled opponents boast a challenging and lifelike Artificial Intelligence that is configurable in numerous ways. Up to 4 humans can play from any supported device in any part of the world. Data automatically backed up to the cloud and synced to any device that runs the game! Extensive tutorial and in-game documentation will teach you how to play and have you playing like a champ in no time. Hint feature helps you play while you learn. Choose from multiple beautiful deck styles.
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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Tichu at monthly against Among Thieves's every 33 months. Tichu also leads on ratings volume (319 vs 5) and chart position (#184 vs unranked). Among Thieves's advantage is review sentiment (86% vs 70%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
Tichu costs $4.99 and Among Thieves $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Tichu against 4.2 for Among Thieves. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tichu has 319 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 70% of Tichu's written reviews are positive against 86% of Among Thieves's.
Tichu ships an update monthly, Among Thieves every 33 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tichu | Among Thieves |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (319 ratings) — better | 4.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.3% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 319 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 33 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #184 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 162 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | House Full of Games | LAN - GAMES EOOD |
Customer experience
Tichu
Among Thieves
Bugs and requests
Tichu
Reported bugs
5 issues- Crashes on launch or during gameplay
- Inability to join or maintain multiplayer games
- Inconsistent behavior when calling Tichu
- Incorrect card interactions (e.g. overplaying)
- Persistent login and username issues
Requested features
5 requests- Multiplayer support (online and local)
- More statistics and performance tracking
- Ability to forfeit games
- Faster animations and gameplay
- Improved card visibility on smaller screens
Among Thieves
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tichu
No in-app purchases
Among Thieves
No in-app purchases
