I've played Thief 3, which is way waaay older and, from what I've heard, is considered to be the worst of the original Thief trilogy. Still, to me it was a great game and I'd rather replay that than play this garbage. Definitely not worth it, even if on sale.

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I haven’t played any games of the Thief series before. My review is based on a first-time experience and a comparison to the Dishonored series.

The game was released in 2014, sharing the same year with Dark Souls 2, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, and The Evil Within.


Well, I have a list of things that made me make this review ‘Don’t recommend’.
1. Unnecessarily complicated controls for a controller. Most of the buttons feel out of place. ‘X’ is used for cover, steal, and open actions that require a bit of a wait to see the correct prompt to press a button.
2. Enormous amounts of loading screens and seamless loadings (background streaming). I imagine how annoying it was back in the time when computers weren’t that powerful.
3. Poor environmental design for quick navigation through the city. Closer to the end of the game, I started to remember a few ways, but… why is there only one path to go from point A to point B? From this comes the fourth point.
4. Huge limitations to choose paths to the final destination. It could be cool to have a variety for your own playstyle.
5. Characters are cliché and dull. The Queen of the Beggars seems to be inspired by Granny Rags (*Dishonored*).
6. ‘Gentle’ General Thief-Taker, villain, is a joke. Starting with the character design and ending with his pitiful appearances to stop (read ‘kill’) Garrett.
7. Sometimes, dialogues become almost inaudible and environmental sounds rise up in volume.
8. Poor quality of the storyline. I believed it would get better.
9. Square Enix connection to the servers could be disabled by a patch after servers were taken down. Nah, wait for an attempt to connect to the servers and then see the main menu.
10. Stealth is not the worst but didn’t impress at all. Invisibility in dark areas is a game conventionality.
11. Extremely uncomfortable switch between arrows on the controller. First, I need to choose an arrow in a circle and then press a button to change the arrow. Maybe I haven’t understood how to make it quicker, but that showed a user-unfriendly design.

What I have found okay:
1. Asylum. Suddenly, the game changes more to horror with screamers, changing items behind and appearing people from nowhere, but it was a cool chapter for my taste.
2. Music.
3. 10-15 hours for completion.