Episode 1 of Bones sends Garrett to pull off a heist in a dockyard, which just happens to be located in a snowed-in section of the Old Quarter that was recently cleared of undead and reoccupied by the living. Much of the place is still abandoned though, and part of town is still in the undead's clutches.

This mission is the first level of a c...

"Rodamill" picks up (almost) right where "The Shipment" left off. Having shut yourself up in a box inside of a Mechanist warehouse, you eventually come to... in the ruins of Rodamill.

This mission and its predecessor are structurally pretty similar, in that they both involve a journey from point A to point B across a city landscape... but the...

Having enjoyed a couple of Morrgan's T1 missions previously, I decided to give her (sadly unfinished) Greyfeather Gems mini-campaign a shot.

Garrett is hired to recover the titular gems by the Lord Greyfeather himself; the catch is that the town of Rodamill, where the estate is located, was depopulated and partly destroyed by an earthquake. T...

The sequel to "Bad Debts" is everything that mission was and more.

The City in this mission is even more dark and grungy, and the extra gothic touches increase the atmosphere. It is more immersive, haunted, creepy.

The layout, pathing, and map are much improved. The twisting, interconnected streets feel very natural, like the way loosely-...

Garrett, older and finally out of debt, has decided to settle down in a newly-purchased cottage. Then he finds a mysterious locked switch on one of his home's outer walls. Between that and rumors about the mysterious alchemist who used to live there, he has no choice but to get back into his old habits....

"Autumn in Lampfire Hills" is a very...

An odd bedfellow brings you an odd job: a Hammerite aqcuaintance tasks Garrett with clearing his name of a recent murder. The victim, another Hammerite, was a widely disliked man, but an unfortunate circumstance put immediate suspicion on Garrett's new client. Even worse, giving a verifiable alibi would send him to the gallows anyway, for on the...

"Bad Debts" is the first mission of Melan, one of the current reigning masters of Thief citycraft.

As with any open, vertical city mission there are many paths to take: streets, ledges, windows, sewers. While you'll likely spend a lot of time running and sneaking through the streets between your objectives, you'll find access to many if not m...

Watery Grave is a short mission that can be completed in under an hour, but is packed with detail and a worthy amount of extra content.

Your main goal is to rob the Mechanists of a certain rumored artifact, with additional goals on higher difficulties. Without much of a story other than some background on what you're stealing, the main appeal...

"The Saint of Redmound" is an old and pretty solid Hammerite heist mission for The Dark Project.

Garrett is tasked with stealing a holy relic from a Hammerite monastery: the skull of a saint. To do so you'll have to sneak through a warehouse into the monastery's basement, and go on a brief excursion into a crypt.

While there are several st...

"The Widow's Ire" is everything that was great about The Dark Project.

Ironically, it is those things that are so often criticized about the game. While The Metal Age polished out Thief's weird bits (resulting in an excellent game in its own right, don't get me wrong), for many of us it is precisely those "weird bits" that stick in the mind a...

"Compulsory Egress" is a brilliant and creepy mission, stunning for a first release from its author.

I was initially skeptical: it opens in a big, open area, seemingly barren of almost anything. On second thought, this desolation sets the scene perfectly.

Garrett has arrived in a town that is nearly deserted, its inhabitants having been fo...

Augustine's Revenge is a very nice city mission with several distinct sections and generally a keen sense of location, atmosphere, and a ton of loot.

You begin within sight of your goal, the mansion of a noble lord whom you have been hired to rob and humiliate by another noble for his revenge, but getting there is no straightforward task. To ...

"The Hand of Glory" is a nice, solid Dark Project-style experience that is neither large, nor too small.

Much of the action takes place in a Hammerite complex, with your main goal being to find a secret underground passage that connects to a mansion from which you must pilfer a certain relic. Additionally, on harder difficulties you must obta...

Good for about a half hour or so of goofing off, which is more than I can say for certain more "serious" missions of the time.

- Set off an alarm, disturbing a guard and his lady, the latter of whom seemed to ignore me. :(
- Traversed a twisting path of floating metal pipes to find an upside-down room with nothing in it except pain.
- Freed...