Behold, dear readers: the thief who taught the world to walk in the shadows is coming back, rebuilt piece by piece. Nightdive Studios, Eidos-Montréal and Atari announced that Thief: The Dark Project Remastered launches on December 3 on PC and consoles, with a bonus nobody saw coming: an all-new campaign, The Tarnished Mirror, included at launch.
Platforms and price
The remaster is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S (with Xbox Play Anywhere), Nintendo Switch 2 and PC (Steam, Epic Games Store and GOG), plus PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. Nintendo Switch owners can upgrade to the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition for free. The Standard Digital Edition costs $29.99, and a $34.99 Deluxe Digital Edition adds an art book, the official soundtrack and an excerpt from an upcoming novelization of Thief: The Dark Project.
For collectors, physical pre-orders for PS5 and Switch 2 are already open on Atari’s store: Standard ($29.99), Steelbook with a printed manual ($39.99) and the Deluxe Trapezoid Edition ($69.99), which recreates the trapezoid-shaped “big-box” packaging of the original 1998 release, with a Steelbook, manual and a Remaster Diary. Every physical Switch 2 version also plays on the original Switch.
What changes under the hood
The numbers, my friends, are deliciously nostalgic: the package runs on KEX Engine, Nightdive’s restoration engine, and includes the original 1998 Thief, the extra missions, content and updates from the 1999 Thief Gold re-release, and it supports player-created mods, including The Black Parade.
And here is the boldest experiment in the lab: The Tarnished Mirror was made by the creators of The Black Parade, one of the most ambitious fan-made expansions in PC gaming history, and it now becomes official canon. The campaign bridges Thief: The Dark Project and Thief II: The Metal Age: a seemingly simple theft spirals into imprisonment, uneasy alliances and a descent into a drowned, R’lyeh-like necropolis, with new factions, a bigger enemy roster and Lovecraftian horror. The world is not ready for this… and I love it.
Where to buy
See also this month’s game releases.
Source: Nightdive Studios, Eidos-Montréal and Atari.
