Another mission from the first Thief FM contest. I suppose the running theme is a mechanist/bluecoat run bathhouse with an opening gala going on. Seems overly specific, but I guess this was possible to do in the early days when interest in Thief was still very high. This one is miles better than The Bathhouse that scored third place. It still lo...

A short demo showing how authors can use a simpler method to trigger scripted events on maps. Tutorial included, which is always nice. I'm not an author so I'm not sure if the technology we have right now has made this method obsolete or not, but I'm glad I checked it out.

Another early gem of a mission. The thing that immediately stands out is how 'anti-thief' it plays on higher difficulties. Garrett killed a guy in self defense and now wants to make it look like someone else did it by killing the noble that hired the killer and putting both of their bodies in a treasury. I mean...sure, it works. The extra thing ...

A short, yet extremely difficult demo mission featuring a hammerite chapel of sorts. You start off with nothing and have to traverse a very well lit and tight compound in order to grab items needed to reach more areas, culminating in you killing the head priest. Judging by the readables, it's an unfinished project that unfortunately never got a ...

The first ever FM for Thief 2 by the looks of it. And it's a very poor debut. It was apparently made for the Trial Contest, which seems to be the first contest ever made for Thief FMs, in which this map took third place. So that's two new things this mission has going for it, but what Trials are we contesting here? If the other missions are like...

The further I go the more different missions I encounter as authors opt for more creative scenarios not present in the main game. The story goes that you are tasked with infiltrating a cult in an abandoned hammer chapel to steal back some artifacts from them. Now comes the interesting bit: Your objectives change drastically based on the difficul...

A collection of rooms consisting of a challenge gauntlet, rising in difficulty as you go. Nothing aside from that matters for a mission like this, I suppose. No story, no care put into ambiance or texturing and so forth. Just complete the mission no matter the cost.

Most challenge rooms consist of running away from enemies and pulling switche...

Another showcase of base game assets you may not have seen, but this time in the Thief 2 files. Admittedly there aren't as many interesting things here as there was in Thief 1, but a few nifty things are worth seeing, like the earlier versions of the watchers and Garrett's model. If you liked the first museum you're probably going to appreciate ...

Another semi-notable entry for me in the early mission catalogue. It's a fairly big city mission map with a lot of neat things to see. The story goes that Garrett fell in love with a courtesan who then proceeds to steal his lockpick. So now he's tasked with getting it back. The story expands from there ingame, but it's a solid hook, I suppose. S...

A demo featuring a functional combination lock for authors to use, complete with a tutorial in the readme. Probably obsolete now since I think we have the technology for combo locks that are less prone to breaking, but this must have been really useful for authors back in the day!

A short demo featuring mostly nice looking architecture and decoration in roman and greek styles respectively. It was done for the author's school project. There isn't much here in terms of content for players or for modders. It's just two maps that the author was kind enough to release into the world after their project was complete. Still...I ...

The download link for this one leads to the T2 version. I needed to get the T1 version for this review as it came out first. This one's a bit odd. The story goes...and please correct me if I'm wrong since the author's english is a bit broken...that Garrett is tasked with rescuing someone's wife and giving her medicine to cure her life threatenin...

A small mansion mission that one can complete in about 10 or so minutes. Garrett is hired to infiltrate a mansion and investigate if a noble was murdered because of a suspected affair. Honestly...the writing and story is surprisingly good for such an extremely short mission.

The mission is actually very competently made. The design is a bit b...

Well this is a first. The author willingly chose the sewers to be a centerpiece in the mission. I suppose it's more common than you think considering how many video games have obligatory sewer levels...but oh well.

The story goes that Garrett was on his way back to the Haunted Cathedral after collecting all the talismans for the door and has ...

As I've gone through these earlier missions I've noticed that certain maps can be very fun to play despite having poor atmosphere, bugs and texturing issues. This is very much one of those maps. It's the final mission in Apache's campaign called...well...Apache's mission pack! And it's the biggest and highest quality one so far. While playing th...

Banshee's last published mission. Would I have preferred if they continued the Lord Edmund storyline...? Yes...yes, I most certainly would. Is this a bad mission? No, not at all. The confusing thing is that it's apparently a sequel to Banshee's first ever Dromed project that they originally haven't even bothered to make playable out of the edito...