Melancholy in Porto is an odd FM. Two missions long, with a very tenuous and ridiculous plot (my friends and I giggled a lot at how extremely Not How Nuclear Power Or Anything Else Works the story was), no combat or enemies and nothing to do but hunt loot, it doesn't sound like normal Thief 2 fare. And indeed it isn't. What it is (at least the 2...

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 ...

I'm taking Nicked's word for it that this is a <1,000,000 units, because it sure as hell doesn't feel like it. This mission is massive, and utterly fantastic. It sees you go from nothing to so many items scrolling your inventory becomes more of a pain, it has Garrett doing magic, Garrett doing mad science, Garrett doing horticulture, Garrett wie...

Sabotage in Eastport is supposed (as far as I can tell) to slot in inbetween Trail of Blood and Life of the Party in the official Thief 2 campaign, and in my opinion does so pretty smoothly- its plot (it details Garrett's attempts to prevent the installation of a much stronger kind of builder's child in Angelwatch before he can get there) never ...

A Sinister Night is an attempt at replicating exploration horror gameplay in Thief 2. It removes all of Garrett's weapons and items, save for a "lantern", which I was delighted to see after playing other FMs that have used the concept to help surmount the problem of darkness hindering the player as much as helping them.

Tragically, this lante...

This will probably be a very long review, because there's a lot to get your head around in The Perdurance and I do feel a degree of duty to do its very weird collection of pros and cons justice. If you want a tl;dr: Is it good? Yes. Pretty damn good, actually, but its few design flaws work against it massively, and it could still be better.

This will probably be a very long review, because there's a lot to get your head around in The Perdurance and I do feel a degree of duty to do its very weird collection of pros and cons justice. If you want a tl;dr: Is it good? Yes. Pretty damn good, actually, but its few design flaws work against it massively, and it could still be better.

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A Midsummer Night's Heist is your classic Burglary Simulator experience, the kind of map I love: No undead BS, no weird surprises, just a foppish oaf with a big house and lots of valuables. Excellent. An optional (yet still compelling) objective exhorts you to knock out no more than two people, and the rest is a standard one-big-target-plus-X-lo...

Did you play T2X and get given a thirst for A. Campaigns of multiple fan missions that B. Involve a protagonist other than Garrett? You should play Godbreaker. Seriously. It's damn good.

Right off the bat something I will say is that this is a three-mission campaign. Yes there are "four missions", but one of them is a two minute long glorifie...

My Favorite Year was the 20th anniversary contest FM I'd been leaving till last and thankfully, I wasn't disappointed. I was, however, surprised. The premise of the mission suggested to me this would be something in the vein of Bafford's Manor or Assassins, but the ultimate result is far more evocative of, specifically, Shipping...and Receiving ...

What can I say? Show Off doesn't exactly break new ground, but it's a solid take on a proven formula. A museum is always a fun environment to burgle, and while it's perhaps a little heavy on the empty open space, Show Off still manages to contend a believable museum, of similar size to several of the smaller of such establishments I've visited i...

Where The Unknown Lurks is a strange animal. It's a tiny, two objective in-and-out nick stuff mission with a much larger optional Bonehoard style space hidden under a secret beneath it. It's entirely possible to never see two thirds of the mission because you can simply avoid finding out about or completing the secret puzzle. The mansion space i...

Not sure Troubling Transitions is winning any awards any time soon, but if like me you despised every official LGS level that mentions a cathedral you could do far worse than this for a panacea. It's not particularly difficult, but neither is it boring or poorly made, and tracking around the neighbourhood via various skywalks is a fun exercise. ...

Before I started this FM I was already given pause by the seemingly incredibly conceited manner in which the author describes the scale of difficulty. I was not aware of GORT as some sort of Thief FM impresario, and I'm skeptical of the idea now. True enough, there are additional axes of difficulty present in The Pursuance of An Inscrutable Reci...