The city is crawling with monsters and criminals. Recruit the best into your gang to complete the biggest heists and get away clean.
Dark Heists is a game of deck building and heists with crooked cops, horrific monsters and other criminals.
Your deck is your gang, and you recruit more scoundrels from the streets, and do larceny for coin. you are preparing your crew to do the big jobs, the heists.
Heists challenge your entire crew, requiring you to draw multiple hands and meeting thematic challenges by amassing more crime or sway in your hand, than the challenge threshold. Want zombie minions to terrify the people? generate 7 Sway. Want to kill the vampire? Generate 9 Crime.
The game ends when one player completes three heists.
The player with the most notoriety, gained from heists, coins and recruits, wins.
—description from THE designer