Being a true natural-born maestro, I played on the Maestro difficulty, obviously.

No blackjack means you need to sneak past everything in this marble paradise. Which slows your pace considerably. Granted, not everything is marble and it's done rather tastefully with various less loud surfaces mixed in. The mask was in such an uneventful place...

Between this reimagining of Thieves' Guild and Rogue's Lair, I prefer this one. It makes more sense for thieves to live in tunnels and sewers below the city for quick navigation instead of a giant Khazad-Dum-like necropolis with an access via 100 m dive in a well with water. Though, obviously, Rogue's Lair is far more imaginative and beautiful t...

It's bigger than I anticipated and you will be navigating roofs, windows and even a chimney like a proper Santa, while unleashing good deeds on everyone. The mission is beautiful, with a lot of festive details, but it comes at a price of major slowdowns. There are a lot of custom objects, videos, voices. Authors went all in.

I was quite hooke...

The author has a good eye for Thief aesthetic. A lot of stuff looked beautiful, with excellent use of light and composition. And while I prefer more claustrophobic missions, this one overdid it a bit. You constantly get stuck in things, in corners, hallways, doors etc. Majority of the time there's only one person that can go through a passage an...

This mission's ambition lies more in locations and environments, than moment to moment gameplay. It's busy crafting the lore, expanding the areas that we navigated 25 years ago for the first time, but it leads to a lot of unused spaces, that sometimes feel incomplete. Some rooms are just there because of lore instead of game design purposes. Gam...

I've decided to replay it again after playing OG Deus Ex and I think this mission is actually even better than my initial impression (which was positive still), close to a masterpiece.

The key is VENT SHAFTS. In majority of other immersive sims and in FMs (not gonna claim I played them all, but I played the most popular for sure) shafts and m...

I heard about this mission before as one of the classics, but got a chance to play it only now.

It strongly reminded me of retro horror like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". The story spoils everything immediately and doesn't have a chance for a proper build up, so it's horror element is basically absent and the only thing you get is guards ...

Various items like buckets, mechanical clocks, atlas globes.

I don't think I dug ground using a shovel before.

It's a huge and largely abstract city maze. Like shaped by magic itself, it frequently devoid of any sensible logic and structure. It's several towers and dungeons underneath them, populated by rare living and undead. The main challenge of this mission is figuring out how to reach something. Platforming and getting through things isn't easy. I g...

The mission is pretty fun. It's not a looker, but very few from the early days are. It's quite large and reminded me of Cragscleft. There's a million objectives on expert, so you will need to collect a lot of stuff, get into a lot of things and, in the end, deliver a body. But the flow is nice, everything leads somewhere most of the time, it's q...

It does the thing, but it lacks refinement. And it's biggest advantage is it's fairly short.

The sequel to "Lord Edmund Entertains!", despite highly enjoyable and immersive readables, was lacking. It's similarly as boxy as the first installment, but at the same time lacks story and interesting gameplay. You go through a bunch of mostly featureless locations with couple of decent exceptions and surprises. It's very linear. With loot whic...

As far as mini-campaigns go. The first mission is a quarter with a pagoda. With plenty of verticality. The second mission is a huge crypt. Also with plenty of verticality (and undead).

The city part looks smaller than it actually is. There are many places to visit, including the pagoda tower. I don't think I saw one in Thief FMs before. As fo...

With some unexpected Christian imagery and lore.

This mission feels... basic. Strongly resembles "Lord Bafford's Manor" from TDP. Just with extra occult and city action. Yet the manor itself is a symmetrical box-fest and marble hell. Unlike Bafford's. Other parts of the mission - the city and the chapel - are also very basic. Even if the city...