Pocketwatch Games’ content update for Monaco 2 is live now! Prove yourself as the best thief around with PVP, add to your haul with new levels, and kick it old school with skins inspired by the original Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine.

In the new Monaco 2 PVP mode, up to four players are on the job. Whoever collects 200 coins first gets off scot-free with the loot and bragging rights. You’ll want to case the joint before diving in, as each new PVP level has its own chaotic twist.

• The Cafe Shootout: The race is on in this arena as you’ll want to loot 200 coins before everyone else. Make your shots count with limited ammo, and when you hit your target, add some of their coins to your total.

• The Hotel: Not only will you need to steal your way to 200 coins, you’ll have to do it without the civilians in the bustling hotel noticing your sticky fingers. Oh also, you can teleport.

• The Graveyard: The danger level amps up in this level as guards lurk around the graveyard waiting to stop your gold grabbing antics. You’ll not only need to be faster than your opponents but also sneakier.

Let the Antics BEGIN!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1063030/Monaco_2/

Find eight new character skins that bring the feel of the original Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine to the sequel. Also, your voices have been heard! Pocketwatch Games implemented balance adjustments for late-game levels, which includes the Prison level that has caused even the most experienced thieves to falter.

Key Features:

• Thief on Thief Thievery: The new PVP mode brings 3 levels, and even more antics. Race against up to 3 other players to be the top thief while contending with limited ammo, no weapons, and pacing guards across three levels.

• Assemble Your Crew: They say there’s no honor among thieves, but they’ve never met your crew! Team up with up to three other players in local or online multiplayer to finish the job.

• Utilize Your Skills: Choose from a selection of eight playable characters, each with their own unique abilities and playstyles. Need to adapt? Switch your character mid-run to overcome whatever obstacles stand between you and untold riches!

• Hatch the Perfect Plan: Every heist requires careful planning. With Blueprint Mode, you can look at the level’s layout before you start the mission and craft the best approach.

• Endless Thrills: Complete the structured campaign or test your skills against the hundreds of procedurally generated seeded levels, proving once and for all that you and your friends are the ultimate thieves!

Wait no longer for this new level of thievery, as the new content can be experienced on all platforms now. Players can keep up to date on news from the criminal underworld of Monaco 2 by following Pocketwatch Games on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and joining the official Discord today.

This highly anticipated sequel to Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine is the ultimate stealth-arcade game, playable solo, online or with up to 4 friends on the couch. Assemble a team of smooth criminals, plot out your approach, and take the city of Monaco for all its worth. Whether you execute with elegance or fumble your way to riches, no two heists are ever the same.



Prepare the getaway car and tackle missions solo or with up to three friends as you master the unique skills and abilities of your band of thieves. Each wonderful wrongdoer brings their own personality to the team, from the quick dash of the Prowler to the distractingly delightful dog of the Socialite, there is always a way out of any tricky situation ahead.

Take it slow or smash and grab your way to the loot in devilishly difficult procedurally generated levels. Can you and your crew keep it together long enough to finish the job and outsmart the system? In Monaco 2, you’re the boss calling the shots!

Key Features:

• Assemble Your Crew: They say there’s no honor among thieves, but they’ve never met your crew! Team up with up to three other players in local or online multiplayer to finish the job.
  
• Utilize Your Skills: Choose from a selection of eight playable characters, each with their own unique abilities and playstyles. Need to adapt? Switch your character mid-run to overcome whatever obstacles stand between you and untold riches!
  
• Hatch the Perfect Plan: Every heist requires careful planning. With Blueprint Mode, you can look at the level’s layout before you start the mission and craft the best approach.
  
• Endless Thrills: Complete the structured campaign or test your skills against the hundreds of procedurally generated seeded levels, proving once and for all that you and your friends are the ultimate thieves!

Don't forget, the invitational runs through April 14th, so work fast!! Finish the first four levels at super sonic speeds and post your run under the hashtag #Monaco2Invitational. Share your fastest runs on social media and tag Pocketwatch Games to get shoutouts from the developers!

All videos will require a visible timer to authenticate run times and no cuts to the level video. Videos can be uploaded to YouTube or streamed live via Twitch and saved as a VOD. Have any questions? Reach out to the Pocketwatch team via X or the official Monaco 2 Discord server.



Join Pocketwatch Games on Twitch for launch day shenanigans and developer hot tips. Or maybe developer shenanigans and launch day hot tips. Regardless, we'll see you there!

Hello Crew!

At long last, the first fully playable demo of Monaco 2 launches on Steam on February 20th ahead of Steam Next Fest! Gear up for 2 hours of high-stakes co-op thievery that will have you and your crew sneaking and scrambling for loot. Play single player or with up to four players in online co-op to get rich or die trying. From daring escapes on jobs gone wrong to perfectly executed computer terminal takedowns, the opportunities to reap rewards during Steam Next Fest are endless.


Gearing up for the Big Job

Within the demo, you'll dive deep into the heart of Monaco’s criminal underworld. Tackle multiple levels, each with their own unique challenges and opportunities. Experiment with trinket abilities and get the feel of five playable characters, each bringing their own twist to the heist. The fun doesn’t stop after you complete the demo – there’s always a new way for you to approach the perfect crime!

Grab your best crew, mark your calendars, and be sure to check out the demo from February 20th - March 3rd. We can’t wait to welcome you back to the manic world of Monaco! It’s time to prove you and your crew have what it takes to be criminal masterminds.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/3366190/Monaco_2_Demo/

Hello Crew!

Everyone knows we thieves can be a superstitious lot and our crew is no exception. Today, we’re diving into the Trinket system, a key feature that lets each thief carry unique charms to turn the tide of any heist.


Trinkets

During your time in Monaco, you and your crew will work to unlock four trinket abilities per character. Each trinket provides additional power and specialization, but as with all good things in life, power isn’t free. Equipping these trinkets costs a bit of your base health, so choosing wisely is key. Let’s take a closer look into the trinket abilities of Jobbie, our favorite little robot sidekick!

Jobbie’s core ability is teleportation. He can zip through all visible areas including windows, over furniture, and even through prison cell doors to escape the job undetected. Additional trinket abilities for Jobbie include:

• The GPU Array: Granting x4 teleporting speed.
  
• The Cardboard Box: Causes you to appear invisible without taking damage.
  
• The Worm: Infecting electronics with a deadly virus.
  
• The Wifi Extender: Significantly increases your teleporting range, which is particularly useful when navigating through replayed levels.

These trinket abilities are just the beginning as each master thief has a ton of variation to fit different play styles and to suit the challenges of each level. It will be up to you and your crew to figure out which trinkets are best on every heist!




Diamonds are a Thief’s Best Friend

Trinkets can be unlocked by collecting diamonds earned from completing missions quickly, along with bonus objectives like gathering all of the coins and escaping a job undetected. Use your trinkets wisely in the Hard Truth (seed-locked campaign levels) as you can only earn one diamond per level. But the real source of diamonds comes when jumping into the Unreliable Narrator mode, where the levels are shuffled ensuring no two heists play out the same way.


Get ready to experiment with a variety of trinkets as luck will have it when our upcoming co-op demo releases on February 20th ahead of Steam Next Fest. It's almost time to pocket your rewards in the city of Monaco!

Hello Crew!

As we work towards launch later this year, we wanted to take some time today to talk about the procedural generation within Monaco 2. No two heists will ever be the same as you and your crew work to take on new jobs and pull off the perfect heist!




The same map as the first, but at a different seed


The Main Campaign


Monaco 1 was chock-full of environmental story-telling and easter eggs, often accessed with the Mole. And while the game was great for speed-running, it did have a mild form of procedural generation that kept you on your toes, asking players to improvise rather than memorize. We wanted to expand on this with Monaco 2, without losing what was so special about the level design of the first game.


In Monaco 2, a procedural director stitches hand-authored rooms together using scripts created by our level designer. Then it finds locations for objectives and high-value targets, such as safes, and then starts to fill out enemy positions, traps, security, and other pickups to create a sense of rise and fall in the drama of a level.


But you’d never know this was happening. One of my favorite pieces of feedback we’ve received is that most first time players don’t even realize the levels are procedurally generated. On top of that, for the main campaign, we’re scouring the levels to find our favorite seeds and locking those in for the main campaign. Everyone’s first time playing through the campaign will be on the same maps, and leaderboards will track scores for those seeds.


Unreliable Narrator and Daily Heists

So if the main campaign is locked, why use procedural generation at all? Every heist movie has a planning scene, where the thieves scour a blueprint, figuring out how to best tackle an environment. If you’ve played the same level a million times, this phase is meaningless. But after beating any mission in the campaign, you can go back and play it again in Unreliable Narrator mode: randomized seeds where you can collect diamonds, which you can use to unlock additional character abilities and looks.


A Daily Heist mode also challenges players to tackle the campaign levels with increased difficulty and randomization.


Our intent is to make the main campaign feel like the Monaco experience fans know and love, while making the game infinitely replayable. Add in an opportunity to explore the map and plan the heist with your team and you’ll feel like you are planning a high stakes heist on every play through.


Assemble your dream team and get ready for a taste of the life of crime with our upcoming co-op demo available on February 20th ahead of Steam Next Fest. We’ll see you on the job!

Greeting Thieves!


It’s been a bit since you’ve heard from us (building a game is serious business), but we wanted to update you all on the development of Monaco 2. Rather than write a stuffy blog post, we thought we’d compile the biggest questions we’ve seen from the Monaco community and grill Pocketwatch Games CEO Andy Schatz for answers.


When is Monaco 2 coming out?
It’s coming out in 2025! (That’s all you’re gonna get outta me.)


How many players can play Monaco 2?
Up to 4 friends can play, either split screen or online. In online mode, you can also invite additional spectators. Spectators can even join mid-mission and then join in as thieves on your next heist.


What if I want to play by myself? Can I do that?
Of course! Let’s be clear, Monaco 1 was better known for its co-op than the single player. With Monaco 2, loads of care has been taken to make sure the single-player experience is compelling in its own right.


How many playable characters will there be?
There are 8 playable characters, but each has a number of trinkets that significantly change their gameplay.


Why did you switch the art style?
Monaco 1 came out over a decade ago, we wanted to make a new Monaco for a new generation of players. Since heist movies often hinge on playing with verticality and creative solutions to problems, 3d levels felt necessary for that vision.


Wait, is this game procedurally generated?
Yes and no. The levels are built in chunks, and then a procedural game director stitches them together intelligently. The main campaign uses locked seeds hand-selected by the development team, so there’s a single experience shared by all players. But you can go back and play the campaign on random seeds for additional rewards, and you can play the Daily Heists to compete against other thieves!


Does it run on Steam Deck?
Sure does!


And that’s all from Andy (for now)! We’ll be providing more updates in the coming months and expect to see more Monaco 2 information in the new year! Don't forget to Wishlist!

Happy Holidays!
Pocketwatch Games


Also, ICYMI - here is the trailer from Future Games Show, Late Summer 2024

Looking for a big score? Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine is on sale now til July 11 during the Steam Summer Sale!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/113020/Monaco_Whats_Yours_Is_Mine/

Pick up the standard edition or Soundtrack Edition for 80% off, or get the standalone soundtrack by BAFTA-winner composer Austin Wintory for 35% off...and make sure to tip off the rest of your gaming crew.

Monaco is on sale alongside more than 30 other titles from publisher Humble Games during the Summer Sale. Check out the full roster of games on sale below.

Explore the Humble Games Sale

If you're itching for more big scores, you can plan for some future heist action by adding Monaco 2 to your wishlist, now in development by Pocketwatch Games.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1063030/Monaco_2/

Humble Games, the publisher of Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine and lots more from great indie developers, is celebrating its fourth anniversary with a massive Steam sale featuring over 40 games—and you can score the original Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine for a steal!

Explore the Sale

From now until May 20, Steam players can save up to 80% on Humble Games titles, DLC, and soundtracks, including...

• The original award-winning Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine for 75% off
  
• Monaco: Soundtrack Edition for 80% off
  
• Standalone Monaco soundtrack by acclaimed composer Austin Wintory for 35% off
  
• Dozens more Humble Games titles like Unpacking, Coral Island, A Hat in Time, and Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical (with music by Monaco composer Austin Wintory, coincidentally!)

While you're checking out the sale, you can also add some other upcoming Humble Games titles to your Steam wishlist, including Monaco 2, the sequel now in development by Pocketwatch Games. Check out the complete list on the sale page, and add Monaco 2 to your wishlist below!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1063030/Monaco_2/

Psst. Keep this quiet... *smashes wall and sets off all the alarms*

WE’RE MAKING MONACO 2!

• Wishlist on Steam
  
• Discord
  
• Twitch
  
• Watch our first dev log on Youtube

For the past year we've been working with Humble Games on the next evolution of our co-op crime caper, and while we're still very early, we're ready to tell you all about it. Come watch us on Twitch, say hi on Discord, or comment on our Youtube Devlog to join in with our open development!

Andy Schatz, creator of Monaco and Tooth and Tail, is streaming development of Pocketwatch's next game over on the Pocketwatch Twitch channel. Code-named Bowhead, it's a top-down open world Action RPG with some Monaco-esque visibility and stealth.

Don't forget to follow the Pocketwatch Creator page here on Steam, our Twitter, and the Twitch channel or join our very active Discord channel for updates.

See you on stream!