A very standard hammerite mission with some very funny-bad writing. Perfectly enjoyable, but unfortunately struck with the same plague of secret doors that are present in so many missions from 2002 onwards.

The loot objective is a little too high, and there is nothing revolutionary here. The architecture is very basic with the same big block ...

Timon is/was a perfectly good FM author. Unfortunatly they very much follow the philosphy that the longer the TTLG thread is, the better the mission. So we dive once again into their third offering; hidden switches, high loot goals, and some baffling (but not necessarily bad) design decisions.

Also, this one is pretty poorly translated. Thoug...

Finals at the Academy is a nightmarish mission where Garrett must complete his final exam as a keeper and-

Wait this isn't Finals. This is Graduation day. The same premise but much easier, and much shorter. Here your nameless keeper (not Garrett; there is mechanist technology present!) must complete a series of simple tasks to reach their dip...

Amnesia is a mission where you don't know what you're doing. You're in a place with people, and you must sneak around trying to remember what your doing here. It is also a KOMAG entry, which explains its tiny size and scope. It is a human mission with no real horror elements beyond the premise and the standard thief concept of 'being somewhere y...

Any time I see a '1' in the name, I check if it is the start of a sequence, and usually get sad. Either it's a bad mission with a sequel, or it is a good mission that is never followed up on. This is firmly the latter. You are robbing some hammerites, but arrive to find the place besieged. You get inside, steal everything, then escape as normal....

"The Hole" is a mission about a prison with a big hole in it. You go into the prison (taking mandatory damage; OOF) and then must climb down to The Hole to find out where it leads.

This mission is simple, stupid, and I low key really like it. It's not good, but it is simple, inoffensive, and fairly short. It's poorly built, messy, and doesn't...

I really had to think about what rating to give this one. It is an old fashioned 'Asylum as torture dungeon' style setting, where you are trying to rescue someone from one of its many cells. The mission is cramped, and full of guards, many of whom are stationary and impossible to sneak past.
Oh and it also has a knockout limit.

At first I wa...

Night falcon is what I would call "more thief." It isn't impressive enough for me to point to it and say "this is incredible". It isn't flawed enough for me to say "this is a problem" and it isn't unique enough to be particularly memorable.

However taken as a series of thief missions that expands slightly on the existing lore and world. It ha...

This is a solid first time attempt at mission design. It's not great, but it mostly functions, and is playable. This mission is not ghostable, as you must break a window in order to progress.

The architecture is boxy the enviroments feel very much like someone wanting to use as many assets as possible. There are a couple of secrets that must ...

This is a ghosting mission about sabotaging an enemy fortress. most of your time will be spent solving a simple puzzle.

This mission looks fantastic, and has a style to it that works wonderfully. Unfortunately its gameplay has a few problems, but nothing super critical.

The actual patrols are all fine, you have enough options to get around...

Garrett said no to Lord Fishkill's job offer. Now every time he steps into the light monsters appear. This is upsetting for him, and the keepers are offering to help him deal with it. What follows is a fairly short city mission where you revisit the sights of 'life of the party'.

This is a worthy sequel to Lorgan's Web. It has a similar level...

Note: I am playing the 2008 Gold version.

Ominious bequest. The darling of 2003. The sacred cow which shaped FMs pretty much until the release of newdark.
Lets be blunt; you have played this already. It's at a stage where I could give it a 10/10 and call it 'required' for any true thief fans. This mission is probably the single most influent...

Dromed Deluxe comes with a host of creatures and reskins that I genuinely believed were never used. I am always very happy to find out I am wrong, and to see some of the goofier offerings on full display.

This FM is a castle where something has gone horribly wrong. As a result, you are sent in to look for missing people and map the place so t...

Lord James Retreat is a mansion mission set out in the wilderness, a largish house with a predictable layout, decent guard placement, one hidden key that I largely dislike, and not a whole lot else to talk about.

There are some neat moments; the mission has a couple of scripted sections and enough suprises to keep you on your toes (though not...

I don't like city missions, so this mission tries to seduce me by throwing a mansion at me first. Suprisingly, this actually ended up working.

You start out robbing a house for a key in the hopes of using it to break into a mechanist facility on the other side of the map. Once you have it, you emerge into a streets section which is the main b...

During the first few seconds of this mission, I found a note talking about a zombie infestation in the basement. This sets the tone for the whole mission; Very silly, but enjoyable and with some OK design.

Be aware that on expert there is no blackjack; it's not a forced ghost so you can still lead people around if you want, but no knocking pe...

In 1998, there was a mission released; Return to the haunted cathedral. You might have heard of it, and it was considered a highpoint of thief 1. Then in 2002, Zaccheus toook the ruined cathedral, and restored it, creating the restored cathedral. Then in 2003, the mechanists moved in, and we got this mission. So it is time to return to the forme...

You are looking for a missing woman, Lady Isabella. So you head to a mansion, which is of course holding a dark secret.

This mission is by todays eyes as formulaic as they come. Enter the house, find the specific clues to unlock further areas, inevitably descend under the house and fight the horde of zombies that is doing something evil.

H...