It Steals

About It Steals

It Steals is a small first-person horror game by Zeekerss, released on Steam in 2020, a few years before the same developer's Lethal Company. Its maker calls it a challenging experiment in survival horror built around stealthy, unpredictable monsters.

The game is a set of modes, each with its own monster and its own tools. You move through dark, maze-like rooms with checkered floors and dim lamps, gathering what the mode asks for, while something waits just out of sight. The monsters are built to use your expectations against you: they hide around corners and come when you least want them to. The game tells you little; you learn each monster's rules by watching, guessing and dying.

The look is deliberately rough, pixelated low-poly 3D, which makes it hard to tell what is in the shadows. Players often describe it as short but very stressful. It suits players who liked Lethal Company's monsters and want a harder, solo test of nerve.

How to play It Steals

1. Buy It Steals on Steam and pick one of the game modes.
2. Explore the maze in first person and collect what the mode needs, watching your batteries and devices.
3. Watch and listen for the mode's monster and work out what it reacts to.
4. Use the tools the mode gives you to keep it away, and change your plan after each death.
5. Clear a mode to move on to the next, harder one.

Tips

• Treat every death as a lesson about that monster's rules; the game will not explain them.
• Never assume a corridor is empty because it was a moment ago.
• Play with headphones in a dark room only if you want the full effect.

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