This mission is literally a 5 minutes wonder, but I think the author did a pretty good job at creating a cool little map fitting well to the concept. Short, and very easy (even with the tight loot requirement on Expert), so I get if Thief Noir can be a bit of a disappointment to players, but I loved the experience. I'm obviously biased though, s...

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 rooms, but overall, I really like the different areas we visit in this ~15 minutes long mission. A little city square, warehouse, sewers, boiler room, crypt, caves - all in...

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 unfortunately couldn't really live up to it. I don't mind the blocky brush work at all (some previous reviews have mentioned it) - actually, I adore simplistic geometry a lo...

This mission feels like a strange dream. Like you played through the whole Deadly Shadows campaign during a weekend afternoon and after that, you had all kind of strange dreams set in the Thief world that night. Familiar places got rearranged, uncanny layouts, mysterious dead ends, etc. Looks like Savar has used a couple of abandoned maps made b...

I gotta admit that when this mission started I didn't fully understand why we were there. And I'm not talking about the briefing text (though I often found the continuation of the story quite confusing, especially later on during the campaign), but why this mission thematically existed. I still don't get why the campaign has two thematically sim...

Savar has done an undoubtedly amazing job at building this map, but I gotta say that I rarely felt that I was witnessing anything new, or actually interesting. Not to mention the usual problems present in Savar's mission are here as well (went into more details about them in my review covering the previous mission, The Hotel).

While as always...

This mission has countless flaws, idiotic mandatory secrets, annoying gameplay inconsistencies, a story that makes no sense, etc. - but(!) somehow still ended up being pretty good in my book. I'd even go as far as saying that I often felt like I was playing an official Deadly Shadows mission. While the layout is on the rather labyrinthian end of...

Previously, I've made multiple attempts at getting into this fan mission campaign created by Savar. Deadly Shadows fan contents are rare (especially decent ones), so the pure existence of this campaign has standed out for me - and while I was pretty impressed by the quality of the maps and the respectable amount of thought and effort put into th...

I really dig Bryan's style, his missions are often completely linear, but have the vibe of epic journeys - regardless of how and where they lead the player. That's not different here, and I was consistently curious to see what else the mission had for me. I especially loved the twist that I did not see coming at all (perhaps I missed a readable)...

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 that much, but mainly because I've never really enjoyed the Angelwatch section. Here, the journey through the city and its tight alleys, comfy apartments and steep roofto...

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 missions will hardly meet the ratings (the general opinion) every time. That's actually fine, and since then I've luckily realized that I'm not the only one with mixed - ...

I personally think that being biased about something you like (or hate) is perfectly fine as long as you're not delusional about the objectivity of your feelings. I absolutely get the low ratings of this mission, it has a lot of very amatourish aspects - but still, I love it quite a lot for it's humble scale and comfy vibe.

By the way, while ...