One common survival horror setting is the “basement horror”, where you are trapped in a horrible basement filled with flesh-eating zombies or mutants, and your only equipment is a feeble light source which is as likely to draw the monsters to you as it is to allow you navigate. Themes of hubris and “what have we wrought!” are also frequently inv...

Thief is not well suited for building forest missions, and most previous attempts have created what seem to be forest-textured corridors with the odd cylindrical tree stuck in to liven things up. This FM is one of those which come close – but if you look behind the façade, the paths still look like corridors. If you accept this (a fault of the e...

In what seems to be an unintended pattern for this contest, this FM is an homage to Sliptip’s Ashen Age: a Mediterranean city at dusk (or dawn), a prominent use of waterways, and a very high-res aesthetic. This mission uses the available space well, seeming larger than it is. There are multiple ways to proceed and accomplish objectives, with sne...

A very vertical city mission centred around a towering Mechanist facility you must infiltrate, surrounded by equally towering high-rises you must plunder. The most successful aspect of the mission is how vertigo-inducing it is – yes, it goes HIGH, and it is a long way down when you slip and fall. And fall you will: navigation can be tricky, and ...

This is an obvious newbie city mission that reminds me of very early 2000s design efforts – the good ones. For all its mistakes and rough edges, it is a good promise, showing imagination and design talent. Sure, the brushwork is blocky and sometimes badly constructed, but there is a willingness to experiment with unusual shapes and shape combina...

Another excellent Thief II mission that treads into Dark Project territory, this one is an homage to (obviously) The Lost City of the first game. Garrett is tasked to uncover the mystery of a lost Keeper expedition to Karath-Din, and make some money along the way.

The story is typical, but developed pretty well in all the usual ways. The real...

The setup of Prezent is very simple yet effective: Garrett recieves mysterious offer for a job in small snowy town. But soon after arrival he was robbed and beaten to unconscious state by "dear colleagues" from local thieves' gang. He wakes up in town's tavern and have several tasks including gathering additional information about job from his m...

So far it is last One Million Units contest mission I haven't reviewed. And it is quite hard to write down review since here I have some conflicting impressions. Cinder Notes is semi-sequel (or semi-spinoff) to Sliptip's Ashen Age: Part 1 (albeit I don't know whether Sliptip is the author of CN). Garrett seeks in sunny town for eponymous Cinder ...

As the title suggests, I'm not a fan of horror missions. Or undead missions. Or really any mission that makes my trusty blackjack utterly worthless, removing my ability to knock out every guard in the building and then skip gayly around completing the objectives.

So, when I finally forced myself to return to this mission for the 20th Annivers...

Another city mission which reminds me of old days of the first T1 fan works. Its basic, angular and with simple texturing and it is obvious ly a debut. Here you are tasked to steal precious vase to pay the bribe to prison warden in order to free your fence. Aside this setup the story is almost non-existent. The mission is short (I completed it i...

In Recipe for Turmoil we should steal the recipe from a cook living in small and rainy part of Old Quarter. I cannot say much about this mission. It's vertical city mission, with some challenging sneaking and surprisingly complicated plot. The biggest nitpick I have is that it is quite typical and too short (I spent 20 min on it). In my opinio...