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I decided to make small list of missions that could be suitable for a beginner - person, who haven't tried TDM. It's similar to Thief missions, but some aspects (like lockpicking or fighting) are d...

The Dark Mod Training Mission (2009) TDM FM

Mission 1: A New Job (2017) TDM FM

Thief's Den 1 (2008) TDM FM

The Outpost (2008) TDM FM

Too Late (2009) TDM FM

Deadeye (2021) TDM FM

A Score to Settle (2011) TDM FM

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Well made small missions

Just the bunch of good small scaled missions. I hope this collection is diverse enough: there are small sandbox missions (like Dirty Money, All for a Night's Sleep or Unbidden Guest), small story-d...

Lord Edmund Entertains! (1999) T1 FM

The Hightowne Museum (2001) T2 FM

Circle of Stone and Shadow 1: Gathering at the Inn (2003) T2 FM

Garrett and the Beanstalk (2003) T2 FM

Returning a Favor (2004) T1 FM

The Relic (2004) T2 FM

Into the Maelstrom (2004) T2 FM

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★ 8 / 10 Act 3, March 23, 2025

★ 7 / 10 Act 2, March 23, 2025

★ 7 / 10 Act 1, March 23, 2025

★ 6 / 10 The Smiling Cutpurse, March 8, 2025

★ 8 / 10 King of Diamonds, March 8, 2025

★ 9 / 10 Seeking Lady Leicester, March 1, 2025

★ 7 / 10 Selis Woderose 2: Rake-Off, Feb. 28, 2025

★ 7 / 10 The Threepenny Revue, Feb. 28, 2025

★ 8 / 10 Alberic's Curse, Feb. 28, 2025

★ 8 / 10 Eye of the Sea, Feb. 5, 2025

★ 8 / 10 Twilights Over Driftstone, Jan. 2, 2025

★ 7 / 10 A Winter's Tale, Jan. 1, 2025

★ 8 / 10 Cold Hands, Cold Heart, Dec. 16, 2024

★ 8 / 10 Winds of Misfortune, Nov. 29, 2024

★ 7 / 10 A Bridge Too Far, Nov. 25, 2024

★ 7 / 10 The Spider and the Finch, Nov. 24, 2024

★ 7 / 10 The Last Offering, Nov. 24, 2024

★ 8 / 10 Misguided Souls, Nov. 14, 2024

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Haunted Monastery
topic about Selis Woderose 1: Flakebridge Monastery (2010)

TDM FM

Mike Feb. 28, 2025, 4:29 a.m.

This mission now remains almost forgotten. But in the past Flakebridge Monastery - along with Alberic's Curse - was the fine representative of RttC-style TDM missions. Recently I revisited Flakebridge and while it's not aged well in some aspects, it still provided me with 1 h 30 min of pleasure.

The setup of Flakebridge Monastery is not ver...

Small city pirate mission
topic about Claire's Harbour (2017)

T2 FM

Mike Jan. 2, 2025, 7:39 p.m.

The premise of Claire's Harbour is strong: Garrett - on behalf of Keepers - should find girl named Elise. Elise was selected to be future translator, but the ship with her presumably hit the sandbar and she's missing. The trace led Garrett to small seaside town Claire's Harbour in which he quickly learned that shipwreck was caused by pirates. No...

Fantastic Architecture
topic about Vanishing Point (2015)

T2 FM

PaulHumph Jan. 2, 2025, 3:15 p.m.

Wonderful buildings, exterior and interior. Vertigo inducing climbs and dodgy jumps abound! Short (can be very, very short) mission with plenty of opportunities to mantl...

Mike Jan. 2, 2025, 3:25 p.m.

I also like this mission. It's not big, but vertical, challenging and has very stylish looks (I also like Double or Quits, another small mission with similar style) and thick atmosphere. And Dirty Money (from the same 72h contest) is even more impressive.

Escape from Haunted Prison
topic about Bloodstone Prison (1999)

T1 FM

Mike Dec. 31, 2024, 9:29 p.m.

Perhaps the McGuffin of Bloodstone Prison is not the best: after all, it's hard to imagine Garrett venturing to undead populated ruins of prison to return to his acquaintance his wife's brooch that this acquaintance lost while being held there as prisoner. Still, the level holds up well, even after 25 years after it's release date.

I think t...

Among the first city FMs
topic about Autumn in Lampfire Hills (1999)

T1 FM

Mike Dec. 31, 2024, 8:50 p.m.

There's strange thing with Autumn in Lampfire Hills that - even after more than 25 years (yeah, Thief FM making is THAT old) - it still plays good. Lampfire Hills city is small, but surprisingly alive and full of details. It helps that Purah understood lessons of his disappointing debut - Shadow of lord Rothchest: there are much less unfair "go...

… and venture forth
topic about Events in Highrock (2000)

T1 FM

Mike Dec. 15, 2024, 7:26 a.m.

The plot of Events in Highrock is quite… convoluted: from its long premise text I figured out that Garrett while hiding from City Watch in small town Highrock was beguiled by some dark mage (who paid for Garrett's work with "false money") and is trying to find another thief, Switcher, who was intermediary between Garrett and that mage - to find...

Ambitious dark fantasy adventure
topic about Into the Dark Forest Remastered (2021)

T2 FM

Matt Nov. 29, 2024, 9:18 a.m.

Personally, I'm one of those taffers who enjoys the hell out of a Thief mission when its setting goes deep into the dark fantasy territory - thus why the title of Into the Dark ...

Mike Nov. 30, 2024, 7:37 p.m.

I actually quite like opening sections. Finding way forward was not easy task (and map was not that helpful), but I liked challenge. On the other hand it was hard to find the main Mcguffin and I didn't like the fact that to finish mission you must trudge through the entire level back.

I can't comment the original release of DF but I played Tough Night which was released along first release of Dark Forest and it was subpar. It is city level with very samey architecture. Very, very samey an...

Great mission, hardcore difficulty
topic about Ravensreach (2022)

T2 FM

chakkman Nov. 20, 2024, 6:58 p.m.

Pretty much the way I could sum up all of nicked's mission. 😉 They're all very good in terms of mission design, atmosphere, visuals, audio (often neglected point), and variety. ...

Mike Nov. 20, 2024, 9:48 p.m.

I also don't find them too hard. On the other hand they are gimmicky, that's for sure. They often use some interesting trick, idea. Sometimes there are challenging chokepoints, bottlenecks. But I don't think of them as hard. I think it's matter of personal preferences.

City spy-themed mission
topic about The Lieutenant 3: Foreign Affairs (2024)

TDM FM

Mike Nov. 3, 2024, 1:20 p.m.

After successful jobs depicted in both Lieutenant 1 and 2 our hero, agent of so-called Western Empire is sent to some generic "arabian"-themed country to track down traces of this country's agent who stole some important blueprints. So this is the setup of Lieutenant 3.

Thief/TDM stealth-oriented gameplay overall is not the worst match for s...

A humble and atmospheric journey under the City
topic about Defender of the Crown (2005)

TDS FM

Matt Aug. 30, 2024, 8:33 p.m.

While has its occasional little flaws, this mission is pretty good. The physics kinda fights the geometry here and there, and the texture work could be more varied in certain ro...

Mike Sept. 3, 2024, 11:05 p.m.

I guess Dark Radiant is more up-to-date and popular nowadays.

A humble and atmospheric journey under the City
topic about Defender of the Crown (2005)

TDS FM

Matt Aug. 30, 2024, 8:33 p.m.

While has its occasional little flaws, this mission is pretty good. The physics kinda fights the geometry here and there, and the texture work could be more varied in certain ro...

Mike Aug. 31, 2024, 9:07 a.m.

Author even made the tutorial of making TDS FMs based on his experiences with this mission: http://www.shadowdarkkeep.com/files/komagtutt3.htm

Not as good as I expected, but still decent
topic about Augustine's Revenge (2009)

T1 FM

Matt Aug. 18, 2024, 3:32 p.m.

After "A Short Night's Work" and "Three Crowns" I admittedly had a lot of expectations (even though I felt mixed about the latter), probably way too much, since this mission unf...

Mike Aug. 20, 2024, 11:06 p.m.

I think of Short Night's Work as some kind of enhanced "remix" of Augustine's Revenge -also "low-key" city mission but bigger, better, badder. I like this one more, but surely it is not without its drawbacks. Perhaps you may like Nigel's Hidden Treasure more - it was made after AR, and is quite varying as well as Three Crowns. Perhaps to the point when it felt a bit too much varying and exhaustive in my opinion.

Amazing 'Life of the Party' styled fan mission
topic about A Short Night's Work (2017)

T2 FM

Matt Aug. 3, 2024, 4:42 p.m.

A Short Night's Work has a pretty similar structure to Life of the Party - which is usually the most celebrated original mission among Thief players. Personall, I don't like it ...

Mike Aug. 3, 2024, 7:58 p.m.

His other missions are very good even though they can be a bit similar to each other (circular structure of level, mixing different locations and themes for example). My personal favourites (aside from this one) are Three Crowns and Augustine's Revenge.

Fantastic technical achievement, terrible mission
topic about Ominous Bequest (2003)

T2 FM

Matt July 28, 2024, 10:33 a.m.

A couple of years ago, when I played it, Ominous Bequest had single-handedly crippled my trust in high ratings over here. Or I'd rather say, it made me realize, my taste in fan ...

Mike July 28, 2024, 9:02 p.m.

I think it's a bit overproduced - like Eshaktaar tried to play with player's expectations and to push himself and players outside Thief FM "comfort zone" but went too far with plot twists and puzzles appearing one after another seemingly endlessly. In the end I felt exhausted and breathed a sigh of relief.

On the other hand I think OB deserves some awe of its ambition. It's not for everyone. It's too sprawling. Perhaps Eshaktaar's small and focused Keyhunt (also puzzle-solver) is what y...

The ride never ends...
topic about Mysteries of Tolham (2024)

TG FM

cowking June 26, 2024, 1:36 a.m.

There are two misconceptions that plague the fm scene, one is inability to see anything = scary/atmospheric, the second is bigger = better. This fm falls in the latter category....

Mike June 28, 2024, 3:31 p.m.

I approached Tolham as sandbox in which I am not obliged to find every piece of loot and visit every location (save it for the next time). So after completing all objectives and achieving loot goal I finished the mission.

Living, Dead and Undead
topic about Thief's Rising 3 - Wolfenstein (2024)

TDS FM

Mike June 11, 2024, 2:37 a.m.

It must be said that few game series can boast such longevity as the Wolfenstein series, which will be 45 years old in two years (the first game was released in 1981!). The para...

Mike June 22, 2024, 5:53 p.m.

Yeah, final showdown is more like episode from straight up shooter (like RTCW). It's complicated though: it faces you with challenge but different than usual challenge in stealth game. Esp. given poor character movement in TDS. On the other hand it was surprisingly interesting for me. Though I would rather have fully explorable Wolfenstein castle which would have been different and contrasting experience than village.

Living, Dead and Undead
topic about Thief's Rising 3 - Wolfenstein (2024)

TDS FM

Mike June 11, 2024, 2:37 a.m.

It must be said that few game series can boast such longevity as the Wolfenstein series, which will be 45 years old in two years (the first game was released in 1981!). The para...

Mike June 12, 2024, 5:41 p.m.

Well, since they are going to perform important ritual they must ensure that everything is okay and (esp. after treason of Keepers Aramis and Alabastor) any possible threat (including those from Keepers) is to be eliminated. Therefore extreme security measures.

Living, Dead and Undead
topic about Thief's Rising 3 - Wolfenstein (2024)

TDS FM

Mike June 11, 2024, 2:37 a.m.

It must be said that few game series can boast such longevity as the Wolfenstein series, which will be 45 years old in two years (the first game was released in 1981!). The paradox of the situation is that this series has always remained in the shadow of other franchises that used ideas pioneered by the Wolfenstein games, pushing the progenitor ...

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