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PayPalOh wow - we're getting a real treat now. Atari / Nightdive Studios announced Thief: The Dark Project Remastered bringing the classic up to modern standards.
This is one of the games that truly helped to bring about stealth immersive sims, so it's great that more people will get to experience an improved version of it. What to expect? Refreshed textures and models, improved cut-scenes and animations. On top of that there's an updated Ui with a weapon and item wheel, and mission selector. Plus support for custom campaigns too.
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From the press release: “Thief didn’t just introduce stealth mechanics, it defined them,” said Stephen Kick, CEO at Nightdive Studios. “With this remaster, we’ve preserved the tension and intelligence of the original while enhancing it for modern players, ensuring that its legacy continues to influence how stealth games are played today."
“Few games have had an impact as enduring as Thief,” said Patrice Baig, General Manager at Eidos-Montréal. “It set a standard for immersion and atmospheric storytelling that still resonates today. This remaster ensures a new generation can experience what made it so influential, and we’re proud to see it treated with such care.”
Highlights:
- Advanced NPC AI: A dynamic visibility system and sound simulation allows both players and enemies to detect movement realistically; NPCs will dynamically adapt to sounds the player makes, investigate, and even raising alarms
- Keep to the Shadows: Experience one of the first games to use light and sound as core gameplay mechanics; use water arrows to extinguish torches and moss arrows to dampen loud surfaces
- Stealth-Based Combat: Strike unseen from the shadows using Garrett’s blackjack to incapacitate enemies from behind or specialized gas mines and arrows to take them down from range
- Misdirection: Flashbombs will temporarily blind and disorient enemies and Noisemaker arrows will distract and draw away guards.
- Tools of a Master Thief: amass a full array of specialized tools including lockpicks, remote cameras, and even rope arrows to access out-of-reach locations
As for when it's going to launch? We're not exactly sure, they're simply saying "this Winter" across basically everywhere.
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Anyway, has anyone tested Night Dive's 3D audio implementation for the Dark Engine? They're not bringing any attention to it again, so I assume we're not getting A3D-level audio, meaning that despite nearly 30 years of alleged tech advancements we're still getting an inferior product sold as superior because some models got a couple more polys.
I've got to say that the textures at 0:10 give me uncanny valley vibes though...
Quoting: suchNext summer will be a cold one, I take it?From the trailer it sounds meh. I may check with headphones if the 3d sounds better, but, judging from the lack of effect on the footsteps from the wall between you and a guard, there's clearly no raytraced audio.
Anyway, has anyone tested Night Dive's 3D audio implementation for the Dark Engine? They're not bringing any attention to it again, so I assume we're not getting A3D-level audio, meaning that despite nearly 30 years of alleged tech advancements we're still getting an inferior product sold as superior because some models got a couple more polys.
Audio raytracingt is he only upgrade that would interest me in a thief remaster.
Last edited by emphy on 8 Jun 2026 at 3:25 pm UTC