Thief: The Dark Project Remastered sneaks out December 3, with a new campaign from The Black Parade team

Garrett is coming back on December 3. Nightdive Studios, Eidos-Montréal and Atari announced today that Thief: The Dark Project Remastered launches that day on PS5, Xbox Series X|S (with Xbox Play Anywhere), Switch 2, PS4, Switch, and PC through Steam, Epic Games Store and GOG. Pre-orders are open now.

What’s in the package

The remaster is built on Nightdive’s KEX Engine and covers Looking Glass Studios’ 1998 original plus everything from the 1999 Thief Gold re-release, which added three missions and five new enemy types. Per Gematsu, the upgrades include improved textures, models and animations, up to 4K at 120 frames per second, modern controller support with a weapon and item wheel, gyro aiming, and a mission selector so you can replay any level you’ve already finished. There’s also a behind-the-scenes Vault and “small fixes to the original level design.”

The big surprise is The Tarnished Mirror, an all-new, self-contained campaign that ships with the game. It’s made by the creators of Thief: The Black Parade, the huge fan-made expansion, and the press release says it’s meant to bridge The Dark Project and Thief II: The Metal Age. It starts as a simple theft and turns into imprisonment, uneasy alliances and a trip into a drowned, Lovecraftian necropolis. The remaster also supports player-made missions, The Black Parade included.

Price and editions

The Standard Edition is $29.99 and the Digital Deluxe Edition is $34.99, adding an art book, the soundtrack and an excerpt from an upcoming Thief novelization. On PS5 and Switch 2 there are physical Standard ($29.99), Steelbook ($39.99) and Deluxe Trapezoid ($69.99) editions. That last one recreates the original 1998 trapezoid big box. Switch owners get the Switch 2 Edition upgrade for free. Full details are on Atari’s product page.

PPR take: This is the right way to bring back a classic. Thief basically invented first-person stealth built on light and sound, and its levels still hold up, so the job here was to make it run and control like a modern game without sanding off what made it great. Nightdive has a strong record on that. What really caught my eye, though, is The Tarnished Mirror. Bringing The Black Parade team in and making their work official canon is a big deal, and it’s a nice nod to a fan community that kept Thief alive for more than 25 years. Mod support at launch is a smart call too. At $29.99 with a new campaign included, this one’s an easy pick for stealth fans, and a great way to finally see what all the fuss was about if you missed it in 1998. We’ll see how it plays on December 3.