Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Easier to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Light strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Recruit a crew, case a modular city, bluff about your target, and collect matching valuables before rival thieves expose the job.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Read the full game description
Pinched! is a competitive heist game of deduction, bluffing, and set collection. Each thief studies a modular city, recruits specialists, and pursues valuable combinations while trying to conceal which locations and goods matter most. Public movement and acquisitions create clues that rivals can exploit, so an efficient route may also reveal the plan. Players can misdirect the table, interfere with competing crews, and pivot when suspicion becomes dangerous. The winner is the thief who turns a readable city into an unreadable scheme and escapes with the most profitable collection.
