Phantom Thief is a visual novel game created through RenPy Visual Novel Engine. To play the game, you need to install at least Python 2.7 or Python 3.2.

RenPy Documentation

Basic Help

To advance through the game, left-click or press the space or enter keys. When at a menu, left-click to make a choice, or use the arrow keys to select a choice and enter to activate it.

Game Menu

When playing a game, right-click or press the escape key to enter the game menu. The game menu gives the following choices:

Return Returns to the game. Save Game Allows you to save a game by clicking on a save slot. Load Game Allows you to load a game by clicking on a save slot. Clicking on "Auto" accesses the automatic save slots. Preferences Changes the game preferences (options/configuration):

Display
    Switches between fullscreen and windowed mode.
Transitions
    Controls the display of transitions between game screens.
Text Speed
    Controls the rate at which text displays. The further to the right this slider is, the faster the text will display. All the way to the right causes text to be shown instantly.
Joystick
    Lets you control the game using a joystick.
Skip
    Chooses between skipping messages that have been already seen (in any play through the game), and skipping all messages.
Begin Skipping
    Returns to the game, while skipping.
After Choices
    Controls if skipping stops upon reaching a menu.
Auto-Forward Time
    Controls automatic advance. The further to the left this slider is, the shorter the amount of time before the game advances. All the way to the right means text will never auto-forward.
Music, Sound, and Voice Volume
    Controls the volume of the Music, Sound effect, and Voice channels, respectively. The further to the right these are, the louder the volume.

Main Menu Returns to the main menu, ending the current game. Help Shows this help screen. Quit Exits the game; the game will be closed and ended.

Key and Mouse Bindings

Left-click, Enter Advances through the game, activates menu choices, buttons, and sliders. Space Advances through the game, but does not activate choices. Arrow Keys Selects menu choices, buttons, and sliders. Ctrl Causes skipping to occur while the ctrl key is held down. Tab Toggles skipping, causing it to occur until tab is pressed again. Mousewheel-Up, PageUp Causes rollback to occur. Rollback reverses the game back in time, showing prior text and even allowing menu choices to be changed. Mousewheel-Down, PageDown Causes rollforward to occur, cancelling out a previous rollback. Right-click, Escape Enters the game menu. When in the game menu, returns to the game. Middle-click, H Hides the text window and other transient displays. F Toggles fullscreen mode S Takes a screenshot, saving it in a file named screenshotxxxx.png, where xxxx is a serial number. Alt-M, Command-H Hides (iconifies) the window. Alt-F4, Command-Q Quits the game. Delete When a save slot is selected, deletes that save slot.

Legal Notice

This game uses source code from a number of open source projects. For a list, and a location where the source code can be downloaded from, please view the LICENSE.txt file in the renpy directory, or visit http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/License .

This game is not the full version. The code of the completed game is not available as open source.