In the original Monaco, players assemble one-to-four-person teams and navigate a series of heist scenarios, revealing each area’s floor plan as they go. In the game’s more colorful, more expansive sequel, Monaco 2, your team is given the blueprints from the start, and you can pore over the various means of ingress and escape via gloriously detailed 3D models.

Don’t be deceived, though, into thinking that the developers at Pocketwatch Games are going easy on you with this sequel. Yes, those models can be useful, especially when replaying the procedurally remixed “Unreliable Narrator” version of each stage, but it’s mainly there to give you a false sense of security before showing you what can happen to the best-laid plans.

Monaco 2 isn’t just about planning a perfect heist, because where’s the fun in that? Case in point: Of the three ways to collect diamonds in the game,...