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About Trick or Thief
Trick or Thief by SpunkySarb is a free Halloween chase game with a genuinely clever twist: the monster guarding the pumpkins uses REAL reinforcement learning — it studies your routes and gets better at catching you. Three screenshots show the larceny.
Stealth-thievery against an adaptive AI — the monster doesn't just chase, it learns.
How to Play
Steal the pumpkins while the learning monster adapts to your patterns — vary your routes before it predicts them.
Controls
Arrow keys / WASD – move
See the original itch.io page for the developer's control notes.
Tips & Tricks
The monster learns — deliberately bait it, then break your own pattern.
Halloween chase rules: the pumpkin is the score, the escape is the game.
Features
Reinforcement-learning monster AI
Pumpkin-stealing heist loop
Halloween chase design
Three screenshots of the thief
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