Thief

Reboot of the light-and-shadow stealth original whose lukewarm reception marked the formula's commercial limits.

Released 2014 Developer Eidos-Montreal Publisher Square Enix Platform PlayStation 4 Genre Stealth Era Digital storefronts & indie

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Thief inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Line-of-Sight Detection ~~1981~~Systemic Solution Space ~~1992~~Light-and-Shadow Stealth ~~1998~~Explicit Detection Feedback ~~1998~~

The Thief series in this dataset

1998

Thief: The Dark Project ~~1998~~

2000

Thief II: The Metal Age ~~2000~~

2014

Thief ~~this page~~

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