Acquiring New Ventures is sick as hell from front to back.

ANV is a wonderful mix of modern linear/cinematic level design and more classic, open-ended Thief LD. It continually fluctuates between guided design and nonlinearity in a way I found consistently engaging and deftly handled, which is partly due to the fact that every single beat of ...

Brainchild completely breaks all FM conventions in favor of something abstract, off-putting, and plainly strange. To my eyes, that's a good thing.
It's interesting playing this in 2025, when megastructures have become commonplace in indie games (Lorn's Lure and V.A. Proxy being some examples of the trend) -- Brainchild was two decades ahead of ...

10/10 stuff here. It's not a traditional Thief mission by any metric, but it shows what a creative and talented mind can do with DromEd and with the Thief world in general. The various scenarios are well-constructed, there's a good heaping of visual/auditory/narrative flavor, and the game itself functions stylishly and flawlessly, near as I can ...

My kinda mission: short, sweet, and to the point! An hour-and-change of comfortable exploration in a cozy, well-designed seaside manor. Eye of the Sea doesn't bring anything new to the table, but it has the essentials down: solid guard paths, considered level design, pleasing art design, and a nice twist in the back half that varies up the journ...

This is one of the best FMs ever made, period, end of sentence. It's concentrated joy.

Warm fuzzies aren't a feeling that FMs typically stretch for, but AVTXMS proves that Thief's engine and overall nostalgic vibe pairs with those emotions like a fine wine, so much so that I found myself tearing up at multiple points. The narrative is wonderf...