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Thief: The Dark Project Remastered Coming This Winter

Nightdive will use its KEX Engine to preserve Thief’s original stealth feel, add Thief Gold missions, modern technical targets, quality-of-life updates.

Overview

  • Atari, Nightdive Studios and Eidos Montreal announced the remaster on June 7, 2026, and said it will launch this winter on PC and current and last-generation consoles.
  • Nightdive is rebuilding the game in its KEX Engine and confirmed the release bundles the original 1998 title plus the extra missions and content from 1999’s Thief Gold.
  • The remaster will modernize visuals and systems with improved textures, models and animations, small level fixes, and target output up to 4K at 120fps.
  • Quality-of-life additions include a weapon and item wheel, a mission selector, controller support, achievements, built-in custom-campaign support, and behind-the-scenes material.
  • The project is pitched as a preservation effort that keeps Thief’s light-and-sound stealth design intact while making the game easier to play today and likely reopening the series to new players and community modders.