Downtowne Funk feels like a mission lost from the original campaign, then found twenty-five years later. One can easily imagine it being included in another Dark Project revision, say, Thief Gold v2.0, if such a thing could happen. And not only because the events of the mission take place a few days after the "Thieves' Guild", before "The Sword...

Having played the original version of Calendra's Cistern almost two decades ago, I had very vague memories of the mission. I remembered the annoying Brother Adrius body parts puzzle, the titular cistern and... that was pretty much it -- I forgot almost everything else. So playing this Newdark Update version was an essentially new experience for...

Heart and Soul is another mission (the first one being the Gems of Provenance campaign, of course) by StinkyKitty where he successfully manages to weave a new narrative into the existing Thief timeline. It plays a What If scenario where a rogue mage has come into possession of a recently pawned Mystic's Soul and Heart artefacts stolen from the ...

Recipe For Turmoil is a bite-sized city exploration mission, but do not let it discourage you from playing, as it does everything bigger missions do and is just as good.

Built for the One Million Units contest, the mission makes smart use of limited space by circling its only street on itself and clever positioning of the landmarks. You'll g...

The variety of different visual styles in the Gems of Provenance campaign is really impressive. In just the first mission you'll get to visit the mountain outpost, pagan garden, deep caverns and catacombs, and the Maw Of Chaos inspired magical realm of Mysteria -- and it's only just the beginning.

It is all complimented by competently writte...

Down in the Old Vault is a bank heist mission, but the job won't be as easy as a simple break-in as you need to do some prep work first. You start by stealing the codes to disable the alarm, then vault access keys themselves and, finally, deposit box keys. If that sounds like hauling around a lot of keys -- then because it is, so the mission do...

A Night in Old Quarter is a solid city exploration mission that does everything you expect it to do. It starts as Garret is again are short on cash, and has to venture to the Old Quarter for another artefact job to pay up his rent. Being a bit light on the story, the mission makes up for it with an engaging design. The city block is beautifully...

Project Hammer: Secret Connections is a full remake of the first mission of the campaign of the same name from 2010. The author himself describes the original as "a really primitive", hence this overhaul. Which was completely rebuilt from scratch, with some newly added content.

The mission itself is a mansion heist and the estate, as well as...

Remakes of one's game map in another game's engine are always great fun. And then, of course, there's a case of demakes, when a newer game is recreated in an older engine. But can you really call it a demake when an older title is more engaging and offers more, and more interesting, gameplay opportunities than a newer one?

Anyways, The Chali...

The mission is certainly ambitious: custom intro and outro movies, lots of newly recorded dialogue, very well written documents, some nice puzzles.

It all takes place in the town of Blackwater, somewhere "on the outskirts of the City". The map is fairly large and during the course of the mission you'll get to explore the usual suspects of Ha...

Augustine's Revenge didn't age well: blocky design, boring texture work. The amount of loot everywhere is just ridiculous. For some reason, Expert difficulty does not restrict you from killing guards or civilians.

A simply great short, little mission. Morning Light is an imaginative, meticulously detailed adventure where every room simply drips with atmosphere. To say more would be to spoil it. Even an Expert difficulty playthrough is not gonna take you more than forty-five minutes, so just play it. Experience with The Perdurance, its prequel, is not r...

The Tomb Of Saint Tennor is a short, two-mission campaign with a mostly plain, boxy map design that is elevated by its haunted house type atmosphere. The first mission in an abandoned monastery is mostly linear, but the second puts you in catacombs and noticeably opens up. Sadly, overall the campaign feels quite average. You've seen it all be...

What may look like another City exploration mission at the start, is actually much more interesting than that. There's an Undercity below the cobblestone, the City's dark underbelly built onto its foundations, where the poor, beggars, thieves and various ruffians live. And even deeper below that, in pitch-black darkness, an ancient pagan ruins....

A very well realised atmosphere of a neglected, shabby neighbourhood is what draws your attention right from the beginning of the mission. Mangy streets, rusty machinery and houses built on top of each over. Wires, catwalks, ducts and pipes connecting squalid buildings together. It's all very impressive looking.

Unfortunately, good acrobatic...