The Heist

If you ever wanted to be one of ‘A Team’ but with less of the 80s glamour and more of the pixelated familiarity, another Heist might be for you. This game pulls you into a life of high-speed evasion, where tricking the po-po and pimping your van out are part of your video game day job. The missions — fulfilling right from the comfort of your garage — evolve into a mixture of adrenaline and strategy-bordering-obsession that can keep your mouse or keyboard busy for hours.

Online, some players regaled hilarious stories of veering off-road to evade the fuzz, only to have the ‘retarded mf cops’ (as one player described them) hilariously crash into one another and shred the loot. Upgrades? Totally necessary. You’ll want your van souped-up to avoid those zealous but very inept law enforcers. And although the game has its share of fun moments, prepare to get a little repetitive — this is grinding in videogame form. That being said, it's not like blinking lights or a bright-colored arcade distract from learning of course - and the overall playful charm of The Heist is difficult to argue with since so many have found this odd, pixel heist-a-thon more than worth their time - and further even though it isn't out on PC, it does help solidify the browser as having a relatively strong following for games like this.