Mike - Profile - Thief Guild - Thief Series and Related Games Fan Mission Database

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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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Ratings All (749)

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

★ 8 / 10 You Only Fly Thrice, Nov. 3, 2024

★ 7 / 10 Gem of Souls, Nov. 2, 2024

★ 9 / 10 The Lieutenant 3: Foreign Affairs, Nov. 2, 2024

★ 7 / 10 The Wizard's Treasure, Oct. 20, 2024

★ 5 / 10 Pinnacle: A Test of Talents, Oct. 19, 2024

★ 8 / 10 Volta III: Gemcutter, Oct. 19, 2024

★ 8 / 10 Raising Corpses, Oct. 2, 2024

★ 9 / 10 Nest of Vipers, Sept. 30, 2024

★ 8 / 10 The Imperial Sword, Sept. 24, 2024

★ 9 / 10 Cardinals' Sins, Sept. 1, 2024

★ 7 / 10 Thieves' Guild, July 9, 2024

★ 7 / 10 Trace the Courier, July 8, 2024

★ 8 / 10 Undercover (TG Version), July 8, 2024

★ 8 / 10 Undercover (TDP Version), July 8, 2024

★ 9 / 10 The Lost City (TDP Version), July 8, 2024

★ 7 / 10 A Visit To The Baron, July 5, 2024

★ 8 / 10 Ten Little Taffers, June 28, 2024

Posts All (108)

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 ...

Troll mission, thoroughly unfunny
topic about One Man's Trash (2024)

T2 FM

UdoKrawallo June 4, 2024, 6:08 p.m.

TL:DR: If you like humor in the style of the movie "Meet the Spartans", you will very likely like this mission! If you dislike this movie, then stay away from it. Long versi...

Mike June 6, 2024, 7:40 p.m.

Well, the humour thing is really subjective thing. I like what you don't and you like what I don't. In my opinion this mission is more or less challenging as stealth mission - partly since water is deadly here and Hanover Aldercash built lots of really nasty traps around this. That's in my opinion the biggest achivement here. Perhaps will replay it later with ghost/no blackjack in mind. As for parody/TDS mocking - well, I'm also not in his camp entirely, but sometimes itmanaged to put a sm...

Mage Towers
topic about Towers of Twilight (2023)

T2 FM

Mike May 14, 2024, 6:41 a.m.

Towers of Twilight is extremely large mission where we again greeted by some obscure Mage order - but this time it's not Brotherhood of the Hand but Brotherhood of the Eye - which is operating in what seems to be mountainous/cavernous area full of ancient ruins and tombs. Some olde magicka is attached. Our goal is to find old book and some magic...

Simple yet fun joke mission, and an intriguing study on vertical map layout
topic about Falling, In Love (2021)

TG FM

Matt Dec. 9, 2023, 7:19 p.m.

This is the type of mission I can wholeheartadly dig: a simple, but pretty unique concept, implemented in a decent way. Now, it's important to note the gameplay is pretty much a...

Mike Dec. 11, 2023, 10:32 a.m.

Perhaps you may like this one: https://www.thiefguild.com/fanmissions/3108/ I am now playing it, and have similar vibes as from nicked's mission.

Well made small scaled adventure
topic about Keyhunt (2006)

T2 FM

Mike Nov. 21, 2023, 7:15 p.m.

From all Eshaktaar's missions, Keyhunt often is most overlooked: it's small, short mission which clearly is not ambitious like Ominous Bequest or Broken Triad in terms of tons of custom recources or scripted scenes. Unlike them it stays true to almost stock recource aesthetic of original Thief 2 while keeping some thematic and design parallels...

Underrated FM
topic about A Job Well Done (2015)

T2 FM

Kubrick Oct. 17, 2023, 5:10 a.m.

This is the nature of all my reviews nowdays it seems, to be looking for hidden gems, but I am all too glad when I find one to stop myself. This is a beautiful, big city missio...

Mike Oct. 17, 2023, 3:39 p.m.

Iirc it's decent mission though too much fake doors and quite boring music ambient track which mission uses for most part somehow soured things for me here.

Solid first effort
topic about Paying the Bills 0: Moving Day (2022)

TDM FM

Mike Oct. 11, 2023, 10:46 a.m.

This mission serves as prequel for yet unreleased series by Jedi Wannabe, and I hope that series finally would see the light of the day.

As of now, Paying the Bills: Moving Day is huge outdoor/mansion TDM mission. Perhaps my biggest nitpick actually is that "huge" thing: the mission is over-sized and some architecture is very basic. The begi...

Low-key and challenging - in good and not so good ways
topic about Down and Out on Newford Road (2022)

TDM FM

Mike Oct. 9, 2023, 4:26 p.m.

Unlike other city missions from Connections contest, this one is much more low-key: there is quite depressive city district populated with mostly poor, there are almost no hideous supernatural secrets and in general the tone of mission is more darker. It reminds me of
Springheel's missions - A Score to Settle, New Job and A Reputation to Upho...

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We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of Misguided Souls, submitted by Mike, Nov. 14, 2024

We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of You Only Fly Thrice, submitted by Mike, Nov. 3, 2024

We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of The Lieutenant 3: Foreign Affairs, submitted by Mike, Nov. 2, 2024

We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of The Imperial Sword, submitted by Mike, Oct. 19, 2024

We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of Pinnacle: A Test of Talents, submitted by Mike, Oct. 19, 2024

We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of Nest of Vipers, submitted by Mike, Sept. 30, 2024

We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of Cardinals' Sins, submitted by Mike, Sept. 15, 2024

We accepted the suggestion to change the title of The Lieutenant 3: Foreign Affairs, submitted by Mike, July 7, 2024

We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of Thief's Rising 3 - Wolfenstein, submitted by Mike, June 11, 2024

We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of One Man's Trash, submitted by Mike, May 26, 2024

We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of Sneak and Souffle, submitted by Mike, May 16, 2024

We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of Moongate Ruckus, submitted by Mike, May 16, 2024

We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of By the Cookbook, submitted by Mike, May 15, 2024

We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of The Lieutenant 2: High Expectations, submitted by Mike, May 12, 2024

We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of A Long Way Down, submitted by Mike, Dec. 11, 2023

We accepted the suggestion to change the categories of The Mask of Agamemnon, submitted by Mike, Sept. 18, 2023

We accepted the suggestion to change the missions_in_campaign of Cabal part 1: Furious Flames, submitted by Mike, Jan. 6, 2023

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