Thief: The Dark Project Remastered sneaks onto PC and consoles on 3 December

Garrett is coming out of the shadows. Thief: The Dark Project Remastered launches on 3 December, bringing Looking Glass Studios’ 1998 stealth classic to modern platforms, along with a brand-new campaign that should probably attract some interest from long-time fans.

The remaster runs on Nightdive Studios’ KEX Engine, the tech behind its previous revivals of classic shooters. It includes the original Thief: The Dark Project, plus the extra missions and updates from 1999’s Thief Gold re-release. Mods are supported too, including the acclaimed fan expansion The Black Parade.

The headline addition is The Tarnished Mirror, a new standalone campaign made by the creators of The Black Parade. It’s set between Thief: The Dark Project and Thief II: The Metal Age, and starts with a simple theft that goes wrong, leading to imprisonment, uneasy alliances and a trip into a drowned, R’lyeh-inspired necropolis.

Expect new factions, environments and enemies, and plenty of Lovecraftian horror. Notably, the campaign is being added to the official Thief canon, which is a rare honour for a team that started out making fan content.

Thief: The Dark Project Remastered price and editions

Digitally, the Standard Edition costs $29.99. The $34.99 Deluxe Edition adds an art book, the official soundtrack and an excerpt from an upcoming Thief: The Dark Project novelisation.

There are also several physical editions for PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2:

• Standard Physical Edition ($29.99): the game
• Steelbook Edition ($39.99): the game, a Steelbook and a printed manual
• Deluxe Trapezoid Edition ($69.99): the game, a printed manual, a Steelbook and a Remaster Diary, all in a recreation of the original’s trapezoid-shaped big-box packaging

The trapezoid box is a lovely nod to the days when PC game boxes took up half your shelf.

The Deluxe Trapezoid Edition recreates the original 1998 big-box packaging

Release date and platforms

Thief: The Dark Project Remastered launches on 3 December for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam, Epic Games Store and GOG. It also supports Xbox Play Anywhere, and Switch owners can upgrade to the Switch 2 Edition for free.