Thief™ Gold

The first true stealth game and the second best ever (the sequel, Thief 2 - The Metal Age, being the best).

Are you a cat? Are you paitent? Youl'' love this game.

The audio in this game is 10/10 - ambient background sounds are top notch (and scary) and the effects are fantastic for gameplay purposes such as footsteps. Very slow game with minmal combat so you do need to know that going in to enjoy it.

I'm new to thief. This game is older than me but feels like it came out yesterday. Absolute recommend!

The game is old but gold, it aims to do one thing and it does it well. The game is generally a stealth game, where you play a thief named Garett, who escaped from the mysterious order who once trained him to exact his own plans. The world itself is interesting. You play in some fantastical world in the cusp of an industrial revolution led by the religious Hammers. However, it still remains a world where magic exists. Most of the game takes place in one massive city, and each mission is limited to an area. Most of the missions, the player aim to explore and retrieve specific items either part of some Get-rich-quick scheme or otherwise, then make an escape. The maps are expansive, which makes exploration a necessity, you may also find additional loot that would allow you to procure items for the next missions. Being a stealth game, the thief must embrace shadows, but there is always an opportunity to take a more aggressive approach. One can either use the bat to drop the unsuspecting guards unconscious, or switch to the sword to drop them dead. When it comes to the game's difficulty options, the game takes an interesting approach: it changes mission objectives. Often, the highest difficulty doesn't allow you to kill enemies, and it has you achieve some objectives that would be considered as optional in lower difficulties. Now to the negatives, while the game excels generally when it focuses on stealth, there are some parts which favor combat. Those in my opinion don't do quite as well. Another problem, is that a time some missions can feel like a fetch quest, add to that the large maps where it is easy to get lost (especially those which Garett ignores the layout). The game can also be quite dark, while it is thematic yes, but it can be a problem where paths, and some loot items are literallly hidden in the shadows. All in all, this game is a classic I'd recommend to most people. It has brought me enough enjoyment throughout most of the game.