The Dark Mod (2013)
Themes:Action, Historical, Horror, Stealth
Game modes:Single player
Story:The Dark Mod is a free first person stealth/horror game, developed in homage to the Thief series by Looking Glass Studios. Originally a mod for Doom 3, it has now been released as a standalone game.
Im one of the mission authors for The Darkmod have been making content for it since 2008. I did contact CDPR about getting TDM onto GOG several years ago, but we never got a response. So I am hopeful this time will be better :-)
There is a unique goth-steampunk atmosphere in this game.
Own mechanics.
A variety of locations.
The ability to create your own mission or even campaign.
NOT A VR.
To me is the best spiritual sucessor for the original thief games. Thou is really not the Thief universe, is its own thing with its own names and factions. But, are all inspired on the ones from Thief.
Is also not "a game" in the normal sense, like a single connected story, is instead a playground for us fans to make missions. And you already have hundreds of missions, all with different stories and levels of quality but all done with love.
The gameplay itself imo is mostly inspired on Thief 1 and 2 but the TDM team, also updated it in a few aspects, to please more modern sensibilities but without going all casual, like Thief 4 producers did.
Btw TDM to me, is very high in the list of the most successful Total Conversion mods ever. (now a stand alone free game)
IMO very few fans/teams have gone to such lengths to change a entire game into something totally different and relatively complex.
Also be able to keep very talented programmers around and a community alive for so many years. And there's no sign that the game is losing steam.
I'm sure that if TDM comes into GOG, it will be a important asset for the store (is not on steam or Epic store), this despite being a free game.
TDM is for me one of the best games I know, for its gameplay, for its wide variety of genres apart from stealth, for its great graphics that have nothing to envy to commercial games, for already offering 170 different missions that guarantee years of play, a great active community that keeps adding new missions. A must have for Thief fans. for which is a great homage to this game, even with better graphics.
It's really strange that this gem is not found in any store, not even in Great Old Games, which it is without a doubt.
Одна из самых качественных модификаций и лучший последователь геймплейной философии дилогии Thief. Удивительно, почему её по сей день нет на просторах цифровых магазинов, что странно.
The original 3 Thief games are probably my favorite videogames of all time. Still playing the original missions and fan missions time to time to this day.
Only found The Dark Mod last year and been hooked since. It feels like a proper spiritual successor. There are some really amazingly written and designed missions with unique twists. The movement feels like a polished version of the first two games, meaning I don't have to quicksave before every jump and mantle and I know if my blackjack gonna land or not.
The great thing about this game is that it's entirely made by the community so the more people it reaches the more great content it will have. For me TDM is up there with the original games and modern Thief-likes.