Hats off to TRIVIAL, this mission is of a far greater fidelity than their first. The hotel feels like an actual place, readables do a serviceable job of providing fluff and direction in equal measure, there's patrols, and there's ambience. Any grievances I had with their first mission has been pretty much scoured away with this one. Something a...

It's great to see new authors popping up for these games, 25+ years down the line, and given dromed's many, many eccentricities. That said... this mission is rough. Wonky textures and brushes not fully flush with the ground frame a level of very basic design, offering very little challenge despite the forced ghosting objective. The lack of ambi...

I'm of the belief that a truly good mission will stay good forever, and Saturio Returns Home stands as an example of that. Where one might say that, 25 years later, it doesn't break any new ground, the fact its quality feels relatively on par with a OM is quite the accomplishment. My only complaint is that it feels very 'gamey' in two places, b...

This is one of those missions that makes you go "it's really that old?" for not only the creativity on display, but how well it has held up all this time later. The level design is a little clunky, but it works perfectly fine enough, and does encourage you to look carefully for routes. The main objective and the sequences that occur in the lev...

... I encountered a bug late in the mission that's preventing further progress, and I'm not feeling up to replaying a mission I'm three hours down in. There's a great mission here that is rich and detailed from the smallest nook to the tallest room, and the surrealism really makes the mission 'pop'. It is, admittedly, a very lenghty and complic...

I thought this was going to be your typical mansion mission, but not so - most of the mission's size is reserved for the streets surrounding your main objective. While this does make things feel unfocused, I can't help but love the level design here, which manages to feel like a bridge between Assassins and Ambush's interpretations of The City.

I can't believe it's taken nearly 25 years to figure out what's behind the doors at the end of Thief TDP's training mission (unless another FM author has done that and I missed it), but here we are. Snake has created a Keeper compound that feels very in-line with what we've seen in both official and fan made works. While this mission's inspira...

So I've recently begun playing through TDM's fan missions, starting from the older ones and working my way up, and this is the first one that's really 'wowed' me... but it also outstayed its welcome. Fortunately, a lot of its objectives are optional, so you can condense the experience for yourself. I didn't want to, initially, but as more addit...

An observatory is not an obvious choice for a Thief level, but through the briefing and the level itself, the author has managed to provide fitting context for why we'd want to be there, and why there'd be so much loot lying around. Similar care is put into the level design, boasting an abundance of small details here, like lockboxes opening up...

I really like Falling, in Love by nicked, so seeing a mission with a similar sort of theme, I was compelled to give it a try, even in spite of the fact this was made for a 'Total Crap' contest. Well, in that regard, the author failed, because this is actually pretty neat. There are attempts to make it bad, through awkward object placement, sudd...

No briefing, no information, no reviews, and yet a decent rating - all reason enough for me to see what's up with this mission. Well, first off, it's actually a four-mission campaign, rather than a single mission as advertised. Each one has a little briefing to provide context into this edition of Garrett's wacky hi-jinks, though even that migh...

Now here's an interesting one. A Journey Into the Underdark makes no illusions about what it's trying to be - an old-school dungeon crawl - but the author tries to keep the thief in us happy by providing a loot requirement. They needn't have bothered, because the execution of their vision is more than engaging enough on its own.

Your objecti...

Let's get the positives out of the way, first. DrK's claustrophobic but intricate style of level design gives birth to a district that's even seedier and gloomier than anything the City could offer. The overall size of the level is small enough, with a variety of interconnecting paths, that you'll never be lost for more than a few moments. Rock...

I feel like I've fallen in love with Thief: The Dark Project for the first time again, and that is something no fan mission has done before. Nothing else needs to be said, just go play it, dude.

Mine Saga, by the author's own admission, is a compilation of their previously released missions in one convenient download, but the title suggests it's going to form a cohesive whole. Spoilers - it doesn't. The first mission, Darkstone Mine, is a small, experimental map that makes heavy use of Thief 2's most under-utilised inventory item, flar...

A nicely built museum, unfortunately is the highlight of this level. Beyond that, it's a bog-standard heist with ambient lighting that's way too bright (at least, going by the light gem), keyhunting and secrets that are mandatory to complete the level, which is a personal bugbear of mine.

There is merit to be had beyond brushwork, though. T...