Nightdive remasters Thief: The Dark Project

Nightdive, the studio behind recent revivals of Star Wars: Dark Forces, Doom and System Shock 2, has announced a remaster of Thief: The Dark Project. The effort is not a ground-up remake like Nightdive’s version of the first System Shock, but appears to be the equivalent of their remastering approach used on the sequel.

Released in 1998 by Looking Glass, Thief is widely regarded as the progenitor of first-person stealth. Players follow master thief Garrett through the City, where the game’s focus on shadowed movement and nonlethal play marked a deliberate departure from the era’s louder shooters.

Community projects such as NewDark, RoguePatcher and TFix have already kept the original running smoothly on modern systems. Nightdive plans to refresh art assets, textures and models, add new cutscenes and animations, and introduce a weapon and item wheel to the UI.

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