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...

Another horror mission is yet another artefact seeking but this time in abandoned mansion, filled with Amnesia-style monsters.

The mission is very dark, and you should often use your lantern, one of the few inventory objects you have. The main difficulty therefore is to keep the balance between the visibility of locations to you and - at the...

One of two One Million Contest horror missions. The basic premise of Perdurance is simple: you go to the seemingly empty Mechanists' ghost ship to steal some precious artefact. But, as usual in horror missions, getting inside is much easier than getting outside, and the ship is clearly not abandoned.

The main strength of Perdurance is thick...

Garrett has got a job offer to rob yet another noble, Sir Vasco, but now in a city of Bohn. So begins our adventure. We are to wander in sewers, climb the heights inside and outside of aforementioned noble's posh mansion, read quite funny "tongue-in-cheek" texts, and to have fun from pure ghosting (optional) and solving one particular and simple...

Keywords: compact, daylight, sewers, pretty, FUN.

I just love the premise of TTLG's One Million Units contest, forcing us to appreciate how much can be packed into smaller levels if it's done right. This specific format is both a restriction and opportunity - mapmakers can spend more time on fleshing out the layout, the loot and the story. Ci...

After successful small robbing, Garrett was unexpectedly kidnapped by other thieves, but happily managed to escape and now he is in the middle of mysterious rainy forest filled with dangers and... with possibilities (especially, in version 1.2 which included all needed scripts). So begins his another journey.

It may be my subjective issue, bu...

Before his foray into the Angelwatch tower, Garrett recieves information about new type of robots Mechanists designing in their workshop in Eastport. So he should pay a visit to the workshop and in addition to it - "inspect the property" of local inhabitants. Some of them, albeit, have their own agenda in which Garrett plays important role...

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It's time for me to express my own thoughts about some of One Million Units missions, and I'll begin with this one. Alcazar is another excellent example of clever using of limited space: I spent almost 2 hours and didn't gather all the loot scattered on the layout. Practically you will have several (sometimes well-hidden) ways to almost every lo...

Will the rain ever stop? Perhaps, but for now, all we have is lamp oil shortage, inefficient drainage system and curfews!

This is the world of Raid on Washout Central. The City is on a brink of major crisis and people are scared - Baron is losing the war, City Watch doubled patrols and flood is imminent... Lots of turmoil, but also a grand o...

What we've got here is, essentially, one of the most legendary FMs ever conceived. Originally released in late 2001, read: infancy of Thief modding, it surely influenced whole community, raising the bar for all future mapmakers - we're talking of Inverted Manse, Smuggler's Request or Calendra's Cistern kind of impact. For this reason alone it's ...

The Sealed Quarter was one of my favorite locations in The Dark Project, so naturally I'm always on the lookout for missions that explore that aspect of Thief's setting to add to my queue. Unfortunately there's not as many as I'd like, since most of the well-known undead missions favor other kinds of locations. Lost Among the Forsaken is a notab...

Replayed this and was impressed all over again, and am still missing plenty of loot. It's a sign of a truly great mission when you replay it, and not only discover new areas and routes (some of which may have not been intentional) but are still left with the feeling there's much you still haven't seen. What sets this above the earlier Disorienta...

The Cinder Notes is a very aesthetically attractive FM with a large number of (comparatively) high quality assets (which I think are ripped from Thief 3, though the documentation was a little difficult to understand on that front) and some absolutely gorgeous lighting. The level is compact and makes good use of verticality and levels; more than ...