Thief (2014) isn't as bad as you remember, but gosh, no, it's still not good enough

Past Perfect is a retrospective column in which we look back into gaming history to see whether old favourites are still worth playing today.

My agenda: I really wanted to return to 2014’s hated Thief and prove that it never deserved the vitriol it received. My reality: before the game even started I was bombarded by a barrage of pop-up windows informing me which new heists and levels were available to me as DLC, and I started to hate it a bit already.

So why this desire to defend it? Well, it’s partly because I remember reviewing it six years back, and finding qualified enjoyment – trying to recognise it for the game it is, rather than measuring it against the games it foolishly tried to link itself to. And partly because I wondered if Dishonored had been called Thief: Dishonored, would it too have been so harshly judged? Maybe in 2020 Thief could be, if not amazing, a decent game in its own rights? Maybe?

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