Thief: The Dark Project Remastered Launches December 3 – New Tarnished Mirror Campaign, Price and Platforms

Garrett is finally coming back out of the shadows. Nightdive Studios and Atari have set a release date for Thief: The Dark Project Remastered: it launches on December 3, 2026 on PC, PlayStation, Xbox and both Switch consoles, and pre-orders opened with the announcement on November 2. The bigger surprise is what comes along with it – a brand-new story campaign called The Tarnished Mirror, made by the team behind one of the most celebrated Thief fan projects ever.

The key facts

• Release date: December 3, 2026
• Platforms: PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch and PC (Steam, Epic Games Store and GOG)
• Price: $29.99 / €29.99 / £24.99 for the Standard Edition; $34.99 / €34.99 / £28.99 for the Digital Deluxe Edition
• Included: the full 1998 game, the Thief Gold content, and the new four-mission Tarnished Mirror campaign
• Engine: Nightdive's in-house KEX Engine, with up to 4K at 120 fps

The remaster was first revealed at the PC Gaming Show in June with only a vague "this winter" window. Now it has a firm date, roughly four weeks out.

What's in the package

The base of the remaster is Looking Glass Studios' original 1998 stealth classic – the game that more or less defined first-person sneaking, with its light-and-shadow system, sound-based AI and the moody, steampunk-meets-medieval City. According to the Steam listing, that means all twelve original missions plus the Thief Gold additions from the 1999 re-release: three extra missions that expand the story and five new enemy types.

Nightdive's usual remaster treatment applies on top of that. The studio lists enhanced textures, models, animations and cutscenes, along with a handful of small fixes to the original level design. It's the same KEX Engine approach behind the studio's Quake and Turok remasters: keep the original game intact, but make it run and look the way you remember it rather than the way it actually looked on a 1998 monitor.

Quality-of-life features include:

• A weapon and item wheel, which should make Garrett's tool kit far less fiddly on a controller
• A mission selector, so you can replay any mission you've already finished
• Three difficulty settings per mission, each with different objectives – a signature Thief feature kept from the original
• Gamepad support with rumble and motion/gyro aiming
• Achievements and trophies, plus a "Vault" of behind-the-scenes material
• Custom campaign support on PC, opening the door to the huge library of fan missions the community has built over more than 25 years

The Tarnished Mirror: a new campaign from fan-mission veterans

The headline addition is The Tarnished Mirror, a self-contained story expansion with four new missions, included with the game at no extra cost. The Steam page describes it as set after the events of The Dark Project: with the Trickster defeated, Garrett is back to small-time jobs until the theft of a Precursor hand-mirror drags him into a much larger conspiracy. Coverage from MonsterVine and Games Asylum places it as a bridge between The Dark Project and Thief II: The Metal Age, with new factions and a strong dose of Lovecraftian horror.

What makes this exciting for longtime fans is who made it. The Tarnished Mirror comes from the creators of Thief: The Black Parade, a large fan campaign that's widely regarded as one of the best things to happen to the series in years. Bringing that team into an official release is a nice nod to the fan-mission scene that has kept Thief alive since Looking Glass closed its doors – and since the remaster supports custom campaigns, The Black Parade itself should be playable in it too.

Editions and physical versions

On digital storefronts there are two options: the Standard Edition at $29.99 and the Digital Deluxe Edition at $34.99, which adds the soundtrack, a remaster diary of the artwork and a preview of an upcoming Thief novel. (Steam sells the Deluxe as a bundle of separate items, so the exact total there is a few cents different.)

Collectors get physical versions for PS5 and Switch 2, according to MonsterVine and Games Asylum:

Physical edition	Price	Contents
Standard	$29.99	The game
Steelbook	$39.99	Game, Steelbook case, printed manual
Deluxe Trapezoid	$69.99	Game, Steelbook, manual and Remaster Diary in packaging modeled on the 1998 retail box

That last one is clearly aimed at people who still have the original big box on a shelf somewhere. MonsterVine adds that the Switch 2 physical version also plays on the original Switch.

PC requirements

As you'd expect from a remaster of a 1998 game, the PC specs are extremely modest. The Steam page lists a 64-bit Windows 10 system, a 2.0 GHz dual-core CPU, 2 GB of RAM and any GPU with DirectX 11 or Vulkan 1.1 support as the minimum. The recommended spec only bumps that to an Intel Core i5-2300 or AMD Phenom II X4 945 with 4 GB of RAM. Either way, you'll need just 5 GB of storage.

Why it matters

Thief has been in an awkward spot for a long time. The 2014 reboot left many fans cold, and the original trilogy has mostly survived on PC through community patches and fan missions. This remaster is the first time The Dark Project will be properly available on modern consoles, and at $29.99 with a whole new campaign included, it's an easy sell for both returning fans and players who know the series only by reputation.

Nightdive's track record with this kind of project is excellent – its remasters are generally praised for respecting the original design rather than "modernizing" it away. If the Tarnished Mirror missions live up to The Black Parade's reputation, December 3 could be a very good night to stay in the dark.