Monaco 2

Platform(s): PC
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publisher: Humble Games
Developer: Pocketwatch Games

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'Monaco 2' Details Its Replayability And Procedural Generated levels, Co-op Demo Coming During Steam Next Fest In February

by Rainier on Jan. 27, 2025 @ 12:00 a.m. PST

Monaco 2 is an isometric co-op heist game that will test players skills in brain-bending 3D environments, procedurally generated by an AI mastermind designed to concoct high-stakes challenges and infinite sneaky, stealy fun.

Get your crew back together for the ultimate heist experience! Return to Monaco, plan your operation, and skedaddle when things inevitably go awry in this co-op heist game.

Monaco is a city overflowing with luxury and greed, which makes it a perfect target for you and your international gang of criminal masterminds.

In Monaco 2, no two heists are ever the same. The best of the best have been assembled, and they’ll need to work together using their unique abilities to rob the city blind. Your crew is the key to success—each member has their own unique abilities, allowing you to tackle any challenge with style and precision.

Do you and your friends have what it takes to bring the city of Monaco to its knees? The city is yours for the taking!


Descend into a world of glitz, glam, and heart-pounding heists as Monaco 2 makes its daring debut with its first playable cooperative multiplayer demo available during Steam Next Fest from February 24th - March 3rd.

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.

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 and plan your heist. However, nothing ever goes exactly according to plan in Monaco, so you’ll need to work together and improvise if you want to get away with your haul of riches.
  • Utilize Your Skills: New characters mean all new ways to play! Assemble your team 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, allowing you to case the joint before you and your friends fleece it for all its worth.
  • Endless Thrills: Monaco 2 offers a new level of immersion with an updated 3D art style and a procedurally generated level design system. Complete the structured campaign or test your skills against the hundreds of seeded levels, proving once and for all that you and your friends are the ultimate thieves!

Monaco 2 is in development for PC (Steam).


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