Thief Gold with updated graphics and integrated modern controller support is the latest addition to GOG's preservation program, ahead of Nightdive's full remaster

No shortage of sneaky revamps

GOG, famed revampers of classical PC games, person done conscionable that to the Gold variation of beloved purse-snatching stealth romp Thief: The Dark Project. Through the storefront's preservation program, the GOG mentation of Thief Gold boasts a fig of useful tweaks to assistance it tally seamlessly connected modern hardware.

Having been voted into the GOG reverse engineering team's hands via the store's backers, Thief Gold's had its graphics and audio updated, its interface scaled properly, and its controls optimised. German, French, and Polish localisations person been lobbed in, arsenic has an update to the latest mentation of the NewDark 1.27 engine. Full enactment for modern controllers is besides portion of the package, acknowledgment to the integration of modder Peter Wright's Thief Gamepad Mod.

"With this release, we wanted to grant the unthinkable enactment the assemblage has been doing for years," GOG method shaper Adam Ziółkowski said successful a property release. "That's wherefore we've updated the GOG mentation with NewDark 1.27, bringing monolithic compatibility improvements for modern PCs. A immense shoutout goes to Peter Wright for his fantastic Gamepad Mod, which we've integrated alongside our ain GOG Input Wrapper to marque Thief play beautifully connected modern controllers. And for the purists: you tin present motorboat the original, pre-Gold mentation of the crippled with a azygous click successful the launcher."

It mightiness extremity up paleing successful examination to the afloat Thief: The Dark Project remaster aged crippled TLC specialists Nightdive announced past period (we opted not to quality that reveal, alternatively readying connected wrangling an interrogation that hasn't rather travel to fruition yet for reasons which commencement with B and rhyme with fizzy), but hey, immoderate excuse to spell backmost and crouch locomotion done immoderate moody gothic corridors.

Anyway, revamped Thief: Gold is presently connected connection for £1.49/equivalent via GOG's store, and it'll spell backmost up to £5.99/equivalent erstwhile that woody ends. Here are immoderate musings connected The Dark Project from Alice B (RPS successful peace) and immoderate different Treehouse luminaries if you fancy speechmaking astir wherefore you should articulation Garrett successful his pilfering.