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I decided to make small list of missions that could be suitable for a beginner - person, who haven't tried TDM. It's similar to Thief missions, but some aspects (like lockpicking or fighting) are d...

The Dark Mod Training Mission (2009) TDM FM

Mission 1: A New Job (2017) TDM FM

Thief's Den 1 (2008) TDM FM

The Outpost (2008) TDM FM

Too Late (2009) TDM FM

Deadeye (2021) TDM FM

A Score to Settle (2011) TDM FM

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Well made small missions

Just the bunch of good small scaled missions. I hope this collection is diverse enough: there are small sandbox missions (like Dirty Money, All for a Night's Sleep or Unbidden Guest), small story-d...

Lord Edmund Entertains! (1999) T1 FM

The Hightowne Museum (2001) T2 FM

Circle of Stone and Shadow 1: Gathering at the Inn (2003) T2 FM

Garrett and the Beanstalk (2003) T2 FM

Returning a Favor (2004) T1 FM

The Relic (2004) T2 FM

Into the Maelstrom (2004) T2 FM

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Ratings All (776)

★ 8 / 10 Venomous Ambition, Sept. 14, 2025

★ 8 / 10 The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living, Sept. 14, 2025

★ 8 / 10 Old Gods, Aug. 25, 2025

★ 8 / 10 Haunt, Aug. 24, 2025

★ 7 / 10 Ashcombe House, Aug. 24, 2025

★ 8 / 10 Hotel Clair-de-Lune, Aug. 24, 2025

★ 6 / 10 By the looks of things..., Aug. 24, 2025

★ 5 / 10 Havenhold's Retirement, Aug. 24, 2025

★ 7 / 10 It's a Summer Vacation Every Night, Aug. 24, 2025

★ 8 / 10 Acquiring New Ventures, Aug. 24, 2025

★ 8 / 10 The Lieutenant 4: A Reciprocal Gambit, July 11, 2025

★ 8 / 10 At Lapstone House, March 30, 2025

★ 8 / 10 Act 3, March 23, 2025

★ 7 / 10 Act 2, March 23, 2025

★ 7 / 10 Act 1, March 23, 2025

★ 6 / 10 The Smiling Cutpurse, March 8, 2025

★ 8 / 10 King of Diamonds, March 8, 2025

★ 9 / 10 Seeking Lady Leicester, March 1, 2025

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Don't bother playing this mission
topic about Havenhold's Retirement (2025)

TG FM

Master of Dromed

Sept. 15, 2025, 8:59 p.m.

I chose this mission for the evening but I quickly regret the decision. This is a very basic work, the author is learning dromed and managed to produce a very basic and in place...

Mike Sept. 15, 2025, 9:16 p.m.

I think it's ok first mission. Slapdash, very unpolished and with too steep loot requirement and - occasionally - dream logic of progression, yet… I spent 1 hour playing it and somehow slightly liking what I've seen. It was sometimes juvenile and funny but sometimes in a good way. I don't want to be too harsh on it.

I'll tell one story. One day in the past I finished T2 FM Tough Night (made by another newcomer as you can remember) and it evoked the same feelings as what you described in ...

Atmospheric and challenging
topic about Venomous Ambition (2025)

T2 FM

Mike Sept. 15, 2025, 4:45 p.m.

City mission revolving around uneasy relations between two thieves’gangs in city of Thrax, Venomous Ambition from the very first minutes makes it clear that there would not be easy ride. The tone of this mission is darker and more “low-key” than usual. You are playing not as Garrett but as member of thieves gang The Nighthawks operating in city ...

Meh
topic about Havenhold's Retirement (2025)

TG FM

roytohan Aug. 30, 2025, 2:07 p.m.

Could have been better!

Mike Aug. 30, 2025, 7:06 p.m.

That was… laconic

Challenging but honest
topic about The Death of Garrett (1999)

T1 FM

Mike Aug. 26, 2025, 3:21 p.m.

Premise of The Death of Garrett is simple: your partner - simply named Bok - betrayed you and left you dying in some cave complex. Your task is to get out and bring revenge upon Bok's head. That's all what you need to know right now.

The mission itself is divided into two main parts - the caves and the mansion. It's not big (you can finish i...

Cool small mission
topic about Hotel Clair-de-Lune (2025)

T2 FM

Mike Aug. 24, 2025, 9:15 p.m.

Indeed there is no honor among thieves. Here you are tasked to steal already stolen important document from another thief that is hiding in small hotel Clair-de-Lune.

The hotel itself is small but surprisingly detailed with hidden ways inside it. The mission is difficult in reasonable way: the hotel is well lit and you should watch for shad...

A must-play if you enjoy Thief II
topic about Hidden Agenda (2002)

T2 FM

Thirteen1355 May 18, 2025, 5:20 p.m.

Hidden Agenda completely blew me out of the water. It's a typical Mechanist mission, akin to the missions "Eavesdropping" or the Angelwatch section in "Life of the Party". The e...

Mike May 19, 2025, 10:54 a.m.

Heist Society and Night of Trickster are also good.

Haunted Monastery
topic about Selis Woderose 1: Flakebridge Monastery (2010)

TDM FM

Mike Feb. 28, 2025, 4:29 a.m.

This mission now remains almost forgotten. But in the past Flakebridge Monastery - along with Alberic's Curse - was the fine representative of RttC-style TDM missions. Recently I revisited Flakebridge and while it's not aged well in some aspects, it still provided me with 1 h 30 min of pleasure.

The setup of Flakebridge Monastery is not ver...

Small city pirate mission
topic about Claire's Harbour (2017)

T2 FM

Mike Jan. 2, 2025, 7:39 p.m.

The premise of Claire's Harbour is strong: Garrett - on behalf of Keepers - should find girl named Elise. Elise was selected to be future translator, but the ship with her presumably hit the sandbar and she's missing. The trace led Garrett to small seaside town Claire's Harbour in which he quickly learned that shipwreck was caused by pirates. No...

Fantastic Architecture
topic about Vanishing Point (2015)

T2 FM

PaulHumph Jan. 2, 2025, 3:15 p.m.

Wonderful buildings, exterior and interior. Vertigo inducing climbs and dodgy jumps abound! Short (can be very, very short) mission with plenty of opportunities to mantl...

Mike Jan. 2, 2025, 3:25 p.m.

I also like this mission. It's not big, but vertical, challenging and has very stylish looks (I also like Double or Quits, another small mission with similar style) and thick atmosphere. And Dirty Money (from the same 72h contest) is even more impressive.

Escape from Haunted Prison
topic about Bloodstone Prison (1999)

T1 FM

Mike Dec. 31, 2024, 9:29 p.m.

Perhaps the McGuffin of Bloodstone Prison is not the best: after all, it's hard to imagine Garrett venturing to undead populated ruins of prison to return to his acquaintance his wife's brooch that this acquaintance lost while being held there as prisoner. Still, the level holds up well, even after 25 years after it's release date.

I think t...

Among the first city FMs
topic about Autumn in Lampfire Hills (1999)

T1 FM

Mike Dec. 31, 2024, 8:50 p.m.

There's strange thing with Autumn in Lampfire Hills that - even after more than 25 years (yeah, Thief FM making is THAT old) - it still plays good. Lampfire Hills city is small, but surprisingly alive and full of details. It helps that Purah understood lessons of his disappointing debut - Shadow of lord Rothchest: there are much less unfair "go...

… and venture forth
topic about Events in Highrock (2000)

T1 FM

Mike Dec. 15, 2024, 7:26 a.m.

The plot of Events in Highrock is quite… convoluted: from its long premise text I figured out that Garrett while hiding from City Watch in small town Highrock was beguiled by some dark mage (who paid for Garrett's work with "false money") and is trying to find another thief, Switcher, who was intermediary between Garrett and that mage - to find...

Ambitious dark fantasy adventure
topic about Into the Dark Forest Remastered (2021)

T2 FM

Matt Nov. 29, 2024, 9:18 a.m.

Personally, I'm one of those taffers who enjoys the hell out of a Thief mission when its setting goes deep into the dark fantasy territory - thus why the title of Into the Dark ...

Mike Nov. 30, 2024, 7:37 p.m.

I actually quite like opening sections. Finding way forward was not easy task (and map was not that helpful), but I liked challenge. On the other hand it was hard to find the main Mcguffin and I didn't like the fact that to finish mission you must trudge through the entire level back.

I can't comment the original release of DF but I played Tough Night which was released along first release of Dark Forest and it was subpar. It is city level with very samey architecture. Very, very samey an...

Great mission, hardcore difficulty
topic about Ravensreach (2022)

T2 FM

chakkman Nov. 20, 2024, 6:58 p.m.

Pretty much the way I could sum up all of nicked's mission. 😉 They're all very good in terms of mission design, atmosphere, visuals, audio (often neglected point), and variety. ...

Mike Nov. 20, 2024, 9:48 p.m.

I also don't find them too hard. On the other hand they are gimmicky, that's for sure. They often use some interesting trick, idea. Sometimes there are challenging chokepoints, bottlenecks. But I don't think of them as hard. I think it's matter of personal preferences.

City spy-themed mission
topic about The Lieutenant 3: Foreign Affairs (2024)

TDM FM

Mike Nov. 3, 2024, 1:20 p.m.

After successful jobs depicted in both Lieutenant 1 and 2 our hero, agent of so-called Western Empire is sent to some generic "arabian"-themed country to track down traces of this country's agent who stole some important blueprints. So this is the setup of Lieutenant 3.

Thief/TDM stealth-oriented gameplay overall is not the worst match for s...

A humble and atmospheric journey under the City
topic about Defender of the Crown (2005)

TDS FM

Matt Aug. 30, 2024, 8:33 p.m.

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 ro...

Mike Sept. 3, 2024, 11:05 p.m.

I guess Dark Radiant is more up-to-date and popular nowadays.

A humble and atmospheric journey under the City
topic about Defender of the Crown (2005)

TDS FM

Matt Aug. 30, 2024, 8:33 p.m.

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 ro...

Mike Aug. 31, 2024, 9:07 a.m.

Author even made the tutorial of making TDS FMs based on his experiences with this mission: http://www.shadowdarkkeep.com/files/komagtutt3.htm

Not as good as I expected, but still decent
topic about Augustine's Revenge (2009)

T1 FM

Matt Aug. 18, 2024, 3:32 p.m.

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 unf...

Mike Aug. 20, 2024, 11:06 p.m.

I think of Short Night's Work as some kind of enhanced "remix" of Augustine's Revenge -also "low-key" city mission but bigger, better, badder. I like this one more, but surely it is not without its drawbacks. Perhaps you may like Nigel's Hidden Treasure more - it was made after AR, and is quite varying as well as Three Crowns. Perhaps to the point when it felt a bit too much varying and exhaustive in my opinion.

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